Killanure
Townland in the civil parish of St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Coill an Iúir
- Area
- 102.3 ha
- 253 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 16,488 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killanure, from 22 m² to 160,799 m² (16.08 ha, 39.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Killanure 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
15 Mar 2024Refused
Permission for retention for 1) change of use of existing premises
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240284
14 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230246
26 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for development of a fully serviced dwelling house together with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221428
27 Jan 2022Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220090
20 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct an agricultural shed with associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220048
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
Recorded monuments
- WX009-006001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the lower N-facing slope of Black Rock Mountain, overlooking the W-E River Clody, with the stream c. 500m to the N and c. 80m lower. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 46m N-S; 44m E-W) altered to the S of a dividing E-W field bank and townland boundary where it is defined by earthen bank in 5 straight sections (L 13m to 17m) in Mandoran townland. N of the field bank the rath is defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 1.5-2.5m; ext. H 1m) W-N-E, with internal and external stone cladding at WNW and NNE-E. There is an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1m) and outer field bank W-N. There is a low cairn (diam. c. 10m) at the centre, but the original entrance cannot be identified. 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: 5 April, 2012
- WX009-006002 Cairn - unclassified
Description
Situated on the lower N-facing slope of Black Rock Mountain, overlooking the W-E River Clody, with the stream c. 500m to the N and c. 80m lower. There is a low cairn (diam. c. 10m) at the centre of rath (WX009-006001-). Compiiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 April, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killanure.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killanure.
- 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 Killanure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Killanure · Coill an Iúir
- Area
- 1,022,953 m² (102.3 ha, 252.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- St. Mary's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- St. Mary's electoral division: 787 people in 263 households; 86% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnahask (Co. Carlow), Boolynavoughran, Craan, Kilbrannish South (Co. Carlow), Mandoran
- Placenames
- Killanure 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.