Kilcavan Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cill Chaomháin Uachtarach
- Area
- 112.4 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 3,438 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcavan Upper, from 1 m² to 296,278 m² (29.63 ha, 73.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Upper 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
14 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260449
26 Mar 2024N/a
Permission for retention of the construction of a two-storey dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240327
5 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220590
13 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211444
30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of our existing split
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210665
8 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two storey extension to our existing one storey dwelling w
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200594
25 May 2018Granted (unconditional)
1) THE COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED TO SUB-FLOOR LEVEL AND PREVIOUSL
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20130582
17 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20170178
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WX007-011 Standing stone
Description
Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the bottom of the NW-facing slope of Tara Hill. The top of the stone (H 0.25m) is protruding through the top of a field bank (H c. 1m) and appears to be oriented E-W. 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: 15 March 2012
- WX007-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of Tara Hill. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 31m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 6m; int. H 0.5m; max. ext. H 1.8m) with bushes, which has an external fosse (Wth of top 4.5m at SE to 7m at NW; Wth of base 2m; D 0.3m) E-S and W-N. There is an outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.5m) W-N (max. ext. diam. 43m NW-SE). There is no visible entrance, and the fosse and outer bank are incorporated into a SE-NW stream at NE, and curtailed by an E-W field bank at SW. 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
- WX007-053 Standing stone
Description
Situated on a fairly gentle NW-facing slope at the base of Tara Hill. A stone is aligned NE–SW (dims. 0.7m x 0.5m; H 1.1 m). 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: 16 March 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcavan Upper.
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 Upper.
- 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcavan Upper · Cill Chaomháin Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,124,409 m² (112.44 ha, 277.85 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
- Ballinacarrig, Ballinglin, Ballywilliam, Cullenoge, Kilcavan Lower, Tarahill
- Placenames
- Kilcavan Upper 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.