Killagoley
Townland in the civil parish of Templeshannon, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Coill an Ghabhlaí
- Area
- 124.3 ha
- 307 acres
- Land parcels
- 223
- registered freehold, median 410 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
223 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killagoley, from 6 m² to 212,775 m² (21.28 ha, 52.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Killagoley 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
18 Mar 2026N/a
Permission for modifications to the existing planning permission
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260334
23 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house with connections to existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260073
17 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for a new 2 storey Advance Technology Building (2514m2) consisting
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251679
2 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a domestic garage/store to rear of existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251093
30 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwellinghouse, together with all ancillary
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241349
7 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house with connections to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231470
28 Nov 2023Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL TO RESIDENTIAL USE
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20191180
13 Jul 2023Refused
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house with connections to existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230813
29 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the demolition of an existing single storey conservatory
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230752
28 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of 3no. grass playing pitches and 1no. all
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230455
13 Mar 2023N/a
Permission for the following changes to an existing four-storey office building
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230238
16 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of the following changes to a four-storey office
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221093
16 May 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house together with all ancil
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220641
21 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house with associated site wor
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220218
10 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Change of use of former psychiatric hospital grounds to residential use,
Permission, 69 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211935
25 Nov 2021N/a
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house with connections to existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211831
16 Nov 2021Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house with associated site
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211769
19 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
permissionto erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211155
9 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and extensions to and refurbishment of dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210902
24 May 2021N/a
Permission for alterations and extensions to, and refurbishment of dwelling hous
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210794
3 Mar 2021N/a
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house with connections to existing publi
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210298
24 Jan 2020Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND DOMETIC GARAGE/STORE ON SITE T
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20150096
14 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE REOPENING OF HISTORICAL VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SOUTH-WEST
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200023
16 Dec 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR RE-OPENING OF HISTORICAL VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SOUTH-WEST CORNER
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191657
2 Dec 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT OFF 2 NO. SERVICED DWELLING HOUSES WITH ASSOCIATED
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20191586
The 25 most recent of 33 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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killagoley.
Architectural heritage
- Enniscorthy Society of Friends' Meeting House, meeting house, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay double-height Society of Friends' meeting house, dated 1869, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey linking porch (west). Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners. Round-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing iron mesh panels over six-over-six timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Paired round-headed window openings (gable ends) below cut-granite roundel date stones ("1869") with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing iron mesh panels over six-over-six timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Segmental-headed door opening (porch) with two cut-granite steps, and moulded surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Round-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and moulded surrounds framing iron mesh panels over four-over-four timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Full-height interior with central aisle between timber pews, timber boarded wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, and stepped dais (north) supporting diagonal timber boarded panelled benches; (west): Attached five-bay two-storey Society of Friends' meeting house, built 1756, on a rectangular plan originally detached. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (north) having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): small meeting room with chimneypiece; and (first floor) large meeting room with timber benches, timber boarded wainscoting supporting timber dado rail, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with lamp-topped cast-iron open work piers to perimeter on granite ashlar bases supporting cast-iron double gates.
- Vent pipe, 1925–1991 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, ----. Set back from line of road on tarmacadam verge.
- House, 1842–1886 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry split-level house with half-dormer attic, extant 1886, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay single-storey. Refenestrated, 2003. Pitched fibre-cement slate roofs including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic (east), crested terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having red brick corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, collared timber bargeboards to gablets with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed door opening (west) with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows (west) or two-over-two timber sash window (east). Lane fronted with concrete footpath to front.
- Hospital/infirmary, 1860–1870 · National interest
Description
Detached fifty-nine-bay two- and three-storey over part raised basement lunatic asylum, built 1863-6; opened 1868, on an asymmetrical plan centred on thirteen-bay (six-bay deep) three-storey central block with three-bay three-storey projecting end bay (north) or single-bay five-stage tower on a square plan (south); fifteen-bay three-storey wings centred on three-bay three-storey breakfronts; single-bay five-stage towers on square plans abutting two-bay (five-bay deep) three-storey projecting end bays; six-bay two-storey over raised basement "pavilions". "Improved", 1895-1900; 1915, producing present composition. Hipped slate roofs on a U-shaped plan; hipped slate roofs on T-shaped plans centred on hipped slate roofs (wings); hipped slate roofs ("pavilions"), clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded box eaves on yellow brick-detailed red brick cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed red brick English Garden Wall bond walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rock faced granite ashlar battered base with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; cut-granite (first floor) or yellow brick (second floor) stringcourses; tuck pointed red brick English Garden Wall bond walls ("pavilions") on cut-granite chamfered cushion courses on tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone bases with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Series of six round-headed central openings forming "loggia" approached by four steps with cut-granite cruciform pillars on chamfered plinths supporting yellow brick voussoirs with cut-granite "Cavetto" hood mouldings on cut-granite springers. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills on yellow brick Running bond panelled risers, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds centred on flush keystones framing twelve-over-twelve or eight-over-eight (top floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings ("pavilions") with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite sills on yellow brick Running bond panelled risers, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing twelve-over-twelve timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.
- Chimney, 1860–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding chimney, extant 1903, on a square plan. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered braced red brick English Garden Wall bond walls with steel-covered capping. Square-headed opening (base) with yellow brick header bond relieving arch framing concrete block infill. Set in grounds shared with Saint Senan's Psychiatric Hospital.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2915 (ZIP).
- 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 Killagoley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Killagoley · Coill an Ghabhlaí
- Area
- 1,243,116 m² (124.31 ha, 307.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeshannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Enniscorthy Rural electoral division: 10,897 people in 4,009 households; 56% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumgold, Salville or Motabeg, Templeshannon
- Placenames
- Killagoley 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.