# Killillane, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of St. Helens, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cill Eilleáin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 381,608 m² (38.16 ha, 94.3 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,772 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: St. Helens, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/st-helens.md
- Barony: Forth
- Electoral division: St. Helen's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54397
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241433
- Centre: latitude 52.226187, longitude -6.330478 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 383886: 180,248 m² (18.02 ha, 44.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383886.md
- Parcel 406491: 89,861 m² (8.99 ha, 22.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/406491.md
- Parcel 383889: 75,539 m² (7.55 ha, 18.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383889.md
- Parcel 4566650: 9,003 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4566650.md
- Parcel 408221: 5,156 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408221.md
- Parcel 383890: 5,105 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383890.md
- Parcel 405776: 2,439 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/405776.md
- Parcel 416560: 2,370 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/416560.md
- Parcel 423860: 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423860.md
- Parcel 428755: 2,171 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/428755.md
- Parcel 379675: 2,156 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/379675.md
- Parcel 403726: 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403726.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 9 Mar 2023, Wexford County Council 20230227: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the proposed alterations to existing dwelling,erection of ground. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125001
- 13 May 2022, Wexford County Council 20220637: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to our existi. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123540
- 17 Feb 2022, Wexford County Council 20220206: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for alterations and extensions to the existing detached fully service. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123070
- 28 Oct 2021, Wexford County Council 20211664: Granted (conditional). Retention, 1 home. Permission for retention of a dwelling house together with all associated site w. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/122409
- 14 Mar 2019, Wexford County Council 20190326: Granted (conditional). Retention. PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108155

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Carnsore Point SAC, site code 002269, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002269
- Special Protection Area: Seas off Wexford cSPA, site code 004237, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004237

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX048-035: Ritual site - holy/saint's stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX048-035----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX048-036----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX048-037001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX048-037002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX048-037003-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Bridge, 1700–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15704849, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX&regno=15704849. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killillane.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killillane.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killillane.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Killillane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballycronigan: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballycronigan.md
- Ballywitch: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballywitch.md
- Newhouses: https://everytownland.com/wexford/newhouses.md
- St. Helen's: https://everytownland.com/wexford/st-helens.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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