Killincooly More
Townland in the civil parish of Killincooly, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cillín Cúile Mór
- Area
- 127.6 ha
- 315 acres
- Land parcels
- 106
- registered freehold, median 2,336 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killincooly More, from 139 m² to 158,172 m² (15.82 ha, 39.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Killincooly More 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
19 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for the extension and restoration of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251709
16 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to demolish existing domestic garage and to construct a 40.5m²
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251485
22 Oct 2024Refused
Permission for development which will consist of the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241304
19 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for works to dwelling consisting of a sun room
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240295
25 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Retention planning permission for the conversion of an existing domestic
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230989
18 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230038
17 Oct 2022Refused
Permission for (A) the construction of a fully serviced domestic dwelling house
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221370
23 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced two storey residential
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220835
14 Jun 2022N/a
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced two storey residential
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220787
8 Apr 2022Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced domestic dwelling house and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220456
8 Nov 2021Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced two storey residental
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211730
10 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention for a Conservatory at the rear, and a Garage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201514
17 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of change of use from storage to residential
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201364
19 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED DI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180193
30 May 2017Refused
OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT TO CONSIST OF CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20170663
6 Dec 2016Refused
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN ALTERNATIVE HOUSE DESIGN TO COMPLETE PREVIOUSLY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161355
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killincooly More.
Recorded monuments
- WX028-004 Flat cemetery
Description
Situated on a NE-facing slope with a small NW-SE stream c. 100m to the NE, and the sea-shore is c. 700m to the SE. A Vase urn with a cremation (Grattan-Esmonde 1903, 69-70), a bowl food vessel with a crouched inhumation in a cist that may have been discovered in 1888 and a bowl food vessel, possibly with cremation in a cist, (Ó Ríordáin 1936, 187-90) were discovered in close proximity to each other. (Waddell 1990. 157) 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: 18 July 2012
Architectural heritage
- Killincooly House, farm house, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, dated 1781, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.
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 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 Killincooly More.
- 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 Killincooly More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Killincooly More · Cillín Cúile Mór
- Area
- 1,276,305 m² (127.63 ha, 315.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killincooly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ballyvaldon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyvaldon electoral division: 802 people in 282 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacsimon, Ballynahask, Ballynamona, Killincooly Beg, Kilmuckridge, Tinnaberna
- Placenames
- Killincooly More 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.