Killillane

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killillane, from 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 180,248 m² (18.02 ha, 44.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Killillane 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.

• 9 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed alterations to existing dwelling,erection of ground

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230227

• 13 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to our existi

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220637

• 17 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations and extensions to the existing detached fully service

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220206

• 28 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a dwelling house together with all associated site w

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211664

• 14 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190326

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Carnsore Point SAC 002269
• Special Protection Area: Seas off Wexford cSPA 004237

Recorded monuments

• WX048-035 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  Situated on a relatively high area of rock outcrop with sea-cliffs (H c. 5m) c. 45m to the SE. It is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering on both as ‘Bullock’s Track’. This is a natural cleft in the W-facing slope of the rock outcrop, but it has no known association with the parish church of St. Helen’s (WX048-037001-) which is c. 20m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2014

• WX048-036 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on the W side of a little N-S valley and at the base of an E-facing rock-outcrop (H c. 3m). According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 this holy well was frequented for the cure of sore eyes, but he does not provide the date of a pattern (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 270-1). The well is a natural spring almost surrounded by furze and obscured by field stones. There is no evidence of veneration. The parish church of St. Helen’s (WX048-037001-) is c. 60m to the E. The saint is probably Helena, the mother of Constantine who was the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity in the early 4th century. She did not convert until late in life after Constantine, fighting under the sign of the ChiRho of Christ’s monogram, had defeated the Emperor Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge on the river Tiber in AD 312. Helen devoted the rest of her days to church building in the Holy Land, and discovered the remains of the True Cross on Mount Calvary. She died in 326 or 328 AD. Her feast day is celebrated on August 18 (Butler 1883, 117). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2014

• WX048-037001 Church
  Description

  Located on a small triangular W-E promontory (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 70m N-S at W) of rock outcrop with sea-cliffs on the N (H c. 2m) and SE (H c. 5m) sides. This is the parish church of St Helens parish within a subrectangular graveyard occupying the promontory. At the Dissolution in 1538 the church was impropriate to the Augustinian nuns of Grany, Co. Kildare (KD040-015----) (Hore 1920, 76). According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 Phillip Rawe was the curate of Killalan, and the church was in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 267). The church was not listed by Synnott writing c. 1680 (Hore 1862; 1921). The church is an undivided rectangular structure (ext. dims 12.3m E-W; 6m N-S; int. dims 10.9m E-W; 3.75m N-S) with walls surviving to a height of 1-2m. The S wall might be rebuilt as it is wholly inside the S end of the E wall by 0.8m. There is a collapsed entrance (Wth 1.45m) in the W wall and a small destroyed window towards the E end of the N wall. The church was described c. 1907 as having had a narrow doorway with a large stone lintel surmounted by a slit window in the W wall (Hore 1949, 44-5), although John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 says the doorway was pointed (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 270-1). In 1907 there were two lights in the S wall, and outside the doorway was a granite stone 'seven feet by two and a half feet by 10 inches thick' (c. 2.15m x 0.75m; T c. 0.25m) with a small, irregular cross 'three inches long' (dim. c. 8cm) inscribed at its centre that was known as the goose's foot (Hore 1949, 45), which is not evident now. The graveyard (int. dims c. 70m NNE-WSW; 40m NNW-SSE), has a dense cover of sea-grass and some blackthorn. It is bordered by a sunken N-S path (Wth c. 3m; max. D 1m) immediately W of the church, and is defined by a low bank at S (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) and a scarp (H 1.5m) at N, but only one headstone and a grave-marker are visible. St Helen's Well (WX048-036----) is c. 60m to the 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: 8 January 2014

• WX048-037002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a small triangular W-E promontory (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 70m N-S at W) with sea-cliffs on the N (H c. 2m) and SE (H c. 5m) sides. The parish church of St Helen’s (WX048-037001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (int. dims c. 70m ENE-WSW; 40m NNW-SSE) that has a dense cover of sea-grass and some blackthorn. It is bordered by a sunken N-S path (Wth c. 3m; max. D 1m) immediately W of the church, and is defined by a low bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) at S and a scarp (H 1.5m) at N, but only one headstone and a grave-marker are visible. St Helen's Well (WX048-036----) is c. 60m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 January, 2014

• WX048-037003 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Located just outside the W doorway of St. Helen’s church (WX048-037001-). According to an account of 1907 there was a granite stone 'seven feet by two and a half feet by 10 inches thick' (c. 2.15m x 0.75m; T c. 0.25m) with a small, irregular cross 'three inches long' (dim. c. 8cm) inscribed at its centre that was known as the goose's foot (Hore 1949, 45), which is not evident now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump back road bridge over stream, extant 1840. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone walls with rendered rounded coping to parapets. Single elliptical arch with rough hewn rubble limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning stream.

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 Killillane, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Killillane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Killillane · Cill Eilleáin

Area

381,608 m² (38.16 ha, 94.3 acres)

Civil parish

St. Helens, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

St. Helen's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycronigan, Ballywitch, Newhouses, St. Helen's

Placenames

Killillane 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.