Killesk

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killesk, from 2 m² to 221,208 m² (22.12 ha, 54.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Killesk 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.

• 19 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260628

• 24 Feb 2026Refused

  Erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage together with a

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260219

• 17 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  RED III Application

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251333

• 8 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250841

• 6 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250520

• 3 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a) construction of a domestic garage, b) attic conversion

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220121

• 2 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a proposed extension and amendments to existing dwelling includ

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210137

• 6 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR (A) THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLIN

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180433

• 24 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WHICH WAS INSTALL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170637

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 Killesk.

Recorded monuments

• WX039-025 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a slight prominence. What is probably a granite stone is oriented E-W with a rectangular cross section (dims. 0.73m x 0.35m; H 1m) and a bluntly pointed top. 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: 28 January, 2013

• WX039-026 Mass-rock
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on an E-facing slope. A granite erratic (dims. c. 1m x 1.5m; H 1m) is sitting on a small exposure of rock outcrop. It has a flat upper surface with a recessed shelf at one corner on which is incised a cross (H 0.32m; Wth 0.21m) of triple lines with splayed terminals. Local tradition holds that it was thrown into the stream below by the military (OSFM), but it was restored to its original position in 1973, and Mass is celebrated at it annually on the Monday closest to the feast of St. James (July 25th). See this web-page accessed on 29 October, 2013. http://homepage.eircom.net/~horeswoodns/killesk_massrock.htm 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: 28 January, 2013 Amended: 29 October, 2013.

• WX039-034001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Killesk is associated with the FitzGeralds of Kiltranyn or Burnchurch, Co. Kilkenny, who were descended from Maurice FitzGerald, after 1324. This is a cadet branch of the Burnchurch family, who are also known as Barron. In 1425 the heir of Hugh Barrye held Killesk for a quarter of a knight’s fee (Brooks 1950, 158-60, 241). William Barron owned land and the castle at Killesk when he died in 1568 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 239). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) William Barron held 300 acres in Killesk, Knockagh and Drilstown as well as a small castle at Killesk (Simington 1953, 189, 193). The castle is marked separately from the church building (WX039- 034002-) on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6 inch maps. It is situated towards the S end of a low S-N spur. John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 362) records that local people pointed out the separate locations of the church and castle, but the confusion is probably created by the nature of the fortified church, which may have been secularised by the 16th century and occupied by the Barrons. 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: 28 January, 2013

• WX039-034002 Church
  Description

  This is the fortified church of Killesk. References to the quarter fee of Killesk date from 1247 when it was held by Auger de Ponte Chardun, but it was held by the FitzGeralds or Barrons from 1324 (Brooks 1950, 158-60). References to the castle (WX039-034001-) date from 1568 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 237-40). There is a reference to the church of Killesk in 1370 (ibid. 239) when the advowson, or the right of appointing clergy, was granted to Dunbrody abbey (WX039-030001-). The church may have been built around that time, but it may have been laicised by the 16th century. It is situated towards the S end of a low S-N spur. Externally, the remains consist of a tower (ext. dims. 8.3m N-S; 5.4m E-W) with a projection (ext. dims. 7.9m E-W; 6.9m N-S) to the E which incorporates the vault of the tower into the body of the church (int. dims 10.45m E-W; 4.6m N-S) and utilises its first floor under the E-W vault as a gallery. The church had tall windows, now destroyed, in the E wall and towards the E end of the N and S walls. The tower has good granite and conglomerate quoins and a slight base batter that is absent from the E projection. The pointed entrance in the S wall of the tower is protected by a murder-hole, and gives access through the lobby to the body of the church on the ground floor. From the lobby a newel stairs at the SW angle goes up to the gallery under the vault of the tower. The gallery has a window in the W wall and an alcove in the S wall controls the murder-hole, while its floor was supported on corbels in the N and S walls. Off the newel stairs, a mural stairs in the S wall gives access through a lintelled doorway to the wall walk (destroyed) of the church projection, with an oubliette, or hidden chamber, off the stairs in the masonry of the vault. The newel stairs continue at the SW angle to the second floor of the tower which had three lights in the W wall and one in the N, but while this floor has a masonry wall on the E side indicating it was rising over the E part of the church, it has no fireplace. A small window or creep could give access to the wall-walk of the N wall of the E projection, and a chamber separated off at the NW corner could have had a garderobe. A third storey in the tower is destroyed but its garderobe chute is still evident in the W wall. The church abuts the W side of a rectangular, grass-covered enclosure (dims 45-50m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a slight bank or scarp, but there is no evidence of burial. 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: 28 January, 2013

• WX039-034003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated towards the S end of a low S-N spur. The fortified church of Killesk (WX039-034002-) abuts the W side of a rectangular, grass-covered enclosure (dims. 45-50m N S; 32m E-W) defined by a slight bank or scarp, but there is no evidence of burial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 January, 2013

• WX039-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-N spur. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 35m; ext. diam. c. 45m) is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 104, 13-15). 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: 28 January, 2013

• WX039-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a NE-facing slope. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 45m) is visible on aerial photographs (NMSAP, 26977, 16 18). It is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX039-074_1 to _9) taken in 2006, which show an entrance gap through both ditch features at SSE, and on the aerial photographs of the Ordnance Survey (2000) and faintly on those of Google Earth (2005). WX039-074----_1.jpg from NE 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: 28 January, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span road bridge over railway line, opened 1906. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered channelled walls between rendered channelled battered abutment walls with rendered chamfered stringcourses supporting piers having lichen-spotted concrete chamfered capping centred on riveted cast-iron or steel girder. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

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

At the centre of the townland of Killesk, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killesk.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Killesk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Killesk · Coill Eisce

Area

1,891,553 m² (189.16 ha, 467.41 acres)

Civil parish

Killesk, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Killesk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

763 people lived in 291 households in the Killesk electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeerogebeg, Ballykeerogemore, Carrowanree, Coole, Drillistown, Knockea, Tinnock

Placenames

Killesk 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.