Kilcavan (Tree)
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Crann Chill Chaomháin
- Area
- 30.7 ha
- 76 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 6,264 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcavan (Tree), from 2,176 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 86,009 m² (8.6 ha, 21.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 (Tree) 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
No planning application touches the townland of Kilcavan (Tree) in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 (Tree).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcavan (Tree).
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1990. "Restored", 1997. Chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Gritdashed roughcast battered wall to front (east) elevation on rendered plinth; limewashed surface finish (remainder) with limewashed battered buttresses. Square-headed central door opening with rendered lugged flush surround framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with rendered lugged flush surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having rendered domed capping supporting flat iron gate.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 (Tree).
- 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 (Tree) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcavan (Tree) · Crann Chill Chaomháin
- Area
- 307,496 m² (30.75 ha, 75.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Harristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Harristown electoral division: 556 people in 211 households; 80% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Harristown, Harristown (Reask), Hilltown, Kilcavan (Old Mill), Kilderry
- Placenames
- Kilcavan (Tree) 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.