Killybegs

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killybegs, from 4 m² to 155,161 m² (15.52 ha, 38.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killybegs 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 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of extension and alterations to dwelling as a change

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251509

• 26 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a 212sqm extension over two floors to dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231289

• 8 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new domestic dwelling, domestic garage, the

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230921

• 29 Mar 2023Refused

  Permission for a 212sqm extension over two floors to dwelling including

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230310

• 5 Sept 2022N/a

  Permission to carry out the following refurbishment works on an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221185

• 18 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for conversion of existing garage to home office

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220655

• 8 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permision for alterations to previously granted planning permission reference

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211432

• 3 Feb 2020Refused

  PERMISSION TO RENOVATE AND EXTEND OUR EXISTING STONE OUTBUILDING

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200109

• 17 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED RESIDENCE, DETACHED GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190832

• 25 Apr 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE FLOOR PLAN AND ELEVATIONS ON

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190551

• 11 May 2018Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180618

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 Killybegs.

Recorded monuments

• WX003-046 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a broad low ridge. It was excavated (E3507) as site 49 during 2005 in advance of the building of the N11 Arklow - Gorey bypass. An area of burnt stone (diam. 5.5m; T 0.25m) overlay a shallow trough (dims. 2.4m x 2.1m; D 0.15m) with another possible trough (dims. 1.5m x 1.1m; D 0.16m) nearby. A number of tree-boles pre-dating the fulacht fia were also recorded as well as the palaeo-channel (Wth 0.5m; D 0.5m; L 7m) of a stream. (Martin 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 February, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span railway bridge over road, opened 1863, on a skewed plan. Damaged, 1922. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked rock faced walls between tuck pointed coursed or snecked rock faced battered abutment walls with cut-granite chamfered coping to dwarf parapets centred on riveted rolled steel girder. Sited spanning road with unkempt embankments to road.

• Inch Railway Station, railway station, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey barrel-roofed railway station, opened 1887, on a rectangular plan; four-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Burnt, 1923. Closed, 1963. Renovated, ----, to accommodate occasional alternative use. For sale, 2005. Corrugated-iron-covered segmental barrel roof on an E-shaped plan extending into canopies on roundel-detailed cast-iron spandrels with replacement uPVC rainwater goods on boxed eaves. Corrugated-iron-covered walls. Square-headed central door opening with timber surround framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with timber sills, and timber surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Remodelled square-headed door openings (end bays) with timber surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in shared grounds.

• Inch Railway Station, station master's house, 1885–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey railway station master's house, ----, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch; three-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, collared "A"-frame timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed door opening with threshold, and moulded rendered surround framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing margined two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in shared grounds.

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 Killybegs, about 1 in 20 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 Killybegs.

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

Name

Killybegs · Na Coillte Beaga

Area

1,736,589 m² (173.66 ha, 429.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgorman, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Ballylarkin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyellin Lower, Ballylarkin, Bolabradda, Clonough, Hydepark, Inch, Macoyle Lower, Monagarrow Upper, Monalug

Placenames

Killybegs 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.