Killagowan

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killagowan, from 1,507 m² to 555,707 m² (55.57 ha, 137.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killagowan 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.

• 6 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR AN ATTIC CONVERSION WITH ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170257

• 23 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLU

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160302

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killagowan.

Recorded monuments

• WX021-027 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Described as Tobermaclura on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a gentle E-facing slope. It was dedicated to St. Mochua Luachra, also known as Cronán (Ó Riain 2011, 470), who was the successor to St. Maodhóg of Ferns (WX015-003002-) (pers. comm. C. Ó Cruaolaoich). A pattern was held at the well on the 22nd of June until c. 1810 when it was abolished, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 92). The well is a natural spring, but there is no evidence of veneration. The church of Meelnagh (WX027-004001-) is c. 180m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 June, 2012 Date of ememdation: 21 June, 2013

• WX027-004001 Church
  Description

  Located at the crest of a N and E-facing slope. This is the parish church of Meelnagh within a subrectangular graveyard. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 Murtagh McParson was the priest, and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 271). There are grass covered foundations of a building orientated E-W (dims. 10m E-W; 6.5m N-S) within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 47m E-W; c. 37m N-S) defined by a masonry wall at the roadside at N and E and by earthn banks and hedges elsewhere. Immediately to the E of the foundations are the remains of a mortuary chapel (int. dims. 4.9m E-W; 4m N-S), probably nineteenth century in date, built of mortared shale and quartz perhaps on the site of the chancel. There is a fragment of a window surround with a central glazing groove (L 0.26m) in the graveyard. Tobermaclura (WX021-027----), a natural spring at which patterns were held on 22nd June until c. 1800 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 92) is c. 180m to the ENE. Archaeological testing (03E0953) c. 25m to the SE of the graveyard in Ballytarsna townland failed to produce any related material (Stafford 2006). 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: 31 July 2012

• WX027-004002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located at the crest of a N and E-facing slope. The parish church of Meelnagh (WX027-004001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 47m E-W; c. 37m N-S) defined by a masonry wall. Tobermaclura holy well (WX021-027----) is c. 180m to the ENE. Archaeological testing (03E0953) c. 25m to the SE of the graveyard in Ballytarsna townland failed to produce any related material (Stafford 2006). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 July, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killagowan.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Killagowan.

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.

No address of the register names Killagowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Killagowan · Cill an Ghabhann

Area

1,102,965 m² (110.3 ha, 272.55 acres)

Civil parish

Meelnagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Wells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wells electoral division: 887 people in 295 households; 83% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytarsna, Ballytarsna Little, Garrybran, Glebe, Kilnamanagh Lower, Lowlough, Meelnagh, Raheennaskeagh Lower

Placenames

Killagowan 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.