Kilcavan Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cill Chaomháin Íochtarach
- Area
- 89.7 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 4,441 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 30
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcavan Lower, from 249 m² to 101,908 m² (10.19 ha, 25.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Kilcavan Lower 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
29 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a machinery storage shed, relocation of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260844
29 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of 4 number two-storey detached
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251082
5 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect four (4 No.) detached two story serviced dwellinghouses
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250966
19 Dec 2024N/a
Permission to erect four (4 no.) detached two storey serviced dwelling houses
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241605
3 Dec 2024N/a
Permission for the construction of 4 number two-storey detached
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241500
29 Nov 2024N/a
Permission for the construction of 4 number two-storey detached
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241481
16 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a split level, single storey Community Centre
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241118
5 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
(1) Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling, (2) permission to
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241076
7 Jun 2024Refused
Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling. Permission for retention of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240644
16 May 2024N/a
Permission for the construction of 4 number two-storey detached
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240548
9 May 2024Refused
Permission to erect four (4 no.) detached two storey serviced dwelling houses
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240522
29 Apr 2024N/a
Permission for the construction of 5 number two-storey detached dwellings with
Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240468
18 Apr 2024N/a
Permission to erect four (4 no.) detached two storey serviced dwelling houses
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240426
16 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the change of use from commercial/retail to residential
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240165
15 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 4 no. detached two-storey dwelling houses, each with
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230948
5 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220590
19 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention extensions to the basement level in my existing dwellin
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211801
30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of our existing split
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210665
3 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a dwelling with services and all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201462
9 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for extensions to side and rear of the property as
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201165
18 Sept 2020N/a
Retention premission for extensions to side and rear of property as constructed
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201075
20 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of domestic storage shed/garage to the rear of exist
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200962
10 Jun 2020Refused
Permission for a change of use from a Domestic Storage Shed/Garage to a self
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200607
3 Apr 2020Refused
Permission for the erection of a domestic storage shed/ garage to the rear of th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200412
15 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GAA GRASS PLAYING PITCH AND ASSOCIATED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191528
The 25 most recent of 30 applications.
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 Kilcavan Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WX007-009 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
Marked as a 'Dolmen' only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the N base of Tara Hill, at the junction with a more level landscape. It is described in 1940 as located on the W side of a NW-SE stone wall that formed the E boundary of a farmyard. It is described then as a large stone (dims. c. 2.4m x c. 1m; T c. 0.5m) resting on upright stones at the W end. The capstone had been altered from a N-S orientation before that, according to local reports (OSFM). It had been removed by 1987 and the site is now occupied by a hayshed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 14 November 2012
- WX007-010001 Church
Description
Situated at the N base of Tara Hill, at a point where the slope eases off. This is the site of the parish church of Kilcavan in Gorey barony, named after St. Coemhan whose pattern was held on the 12th June until c. 1810 according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 6). One length of a wall base running N-S (L 8.6m; Wth 1m) is all that remains of the church within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m NE-SW; 10-30m NW-SE) on the SE side of the road. The graveyard was extended E and is now a triangular area (dims. c. 70m E-W; c. 70m N-S) defined by masonry walls. St Winifred's Well (WX007-013----) is c. 200m to the S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 15 March 2012
- WX007-010002 Graveyard
Description
Situated at the N base of Tara Hill, at a point where the slope eases off. This is the site of the parish church (WX007-010001-) of Kilcavan, Gorey, within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m NE-SW; 10-30m NW-SE) on the SE side of the road. The graveyard was extended E and is now a triangular area (dims. c. 70m E-W; c. 70m N-S) defined by masonry walls. St Winifred's Well (WX007-013----) is c. 200m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcavan Lower.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Kilcavan Lower.
- 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 Kilcavan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcavan Lower · Cill Chaomháin Íochtarach
- Area
- 896,926 m² (89.69 ha, 221.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Kilgorman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilgorman electoral division: 890 people in 297 households; 88% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacky, Cullenoge, Kilcavan Upper, Tarahill, Tincurragh, Tomnahealy, Tomnahealy Little
- Placenames
- Kilcavan Lower 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.