Kilbora
Townland in the civil parish of Ferns, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Coill Bhórú
- Area
- 261.4 ha
- 646 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 3,985 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbora, from 104 m² to 330,657 m² (33.07 ha, 81.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilbora in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jun 2025Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A RECEPTION/DISPLAY AREA FOR PROPOSED NEW HORTICULTURAL
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20191479
29 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for A) minor alterations to an existing dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241330
15 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with associat
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240975
7 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing domestic garage to the rear
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201479
2 Nov 2020Refused
Permission for retention of convestion of permitted domestic store to
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201276
4 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing shed and permission for the erection of a s
Retention, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200883
24 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200366
23 Mar 2020N/a
Retention of existing shed and permission for the erection of a single storey dw
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200357
13 Feb 2020Refused
RETENTION OF CONVERSION OF PERMITTED DOMESTIC STORE TO SELF CONTAINED RES
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200168
14 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CHANGE THE USE OF EXISTING SHEDS FROM COMMERCIAL USE TO DOMESTIC
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200021
16 Aug 2019Refused
RETENTION OF EXISTING SHED AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191165
17 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SLATTED CUBICLE SHED, MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, CONCRETE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190659
30 Jan 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT AN EXTENSION AND CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SERVICED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170075
11 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SLATTED CATTLE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160014
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilbora.
Recorded monuments
- WX015-065 Enclosure
Description
Situated in a NW-SE valley with a stream c. 50m to the SW. The cropmark of a sub-rectangular area (dims. c. 45m N-S, c. 35m E-W) defined by a narrow fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM 52) 19-22). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilbora.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilbora.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilbora with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilbora · Coill Bhórú
- Area
- 2,614,186 m² (261.42 ha, 645.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ferns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Kilbora, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbora electoral division: 433 people in 142 households; 90% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bayland, Bolinaspick, Clonee Lower, Coolpuck, Coolroe, Ferns Demesne, Kilthomas, Raheennagee
- Placenames
- Kilbora on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.