Kilmannock
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmokea, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cill Mosheanóg
- Area
- 249.3 ha
- 616 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 5,583 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmannock, from 46 m² to 174,966 m² (17.5 ha, 43.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Kilmannock 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
26 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of 2no. agricultural sheds which includes slatted st
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250791
7 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for works to uprate the existing Great Island - Kellis 220kV
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241230
19 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a garden building, domestic storage shed and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231250
1 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to amend the design
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221162
12 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of grid connection infrastructure
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220628
7 Feb 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220147
7 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A CONSERVATORY TO THE SIDE OF OUR DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180147
22 Jan 2018N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A CONSERVATORY TO THE SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180065
28 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171002
20 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PV PANEL ARRAY COMPRISING PHOTOVOLTAIC
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170330
22 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WHICH INCLUDES A SLATTED STO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161432
5 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVCED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAG
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160988
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698
Recorded monuments
- WX039-072 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a low-lying, level landscape. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (max. ext. diam. c. 50m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (19) 22-6). 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
- WX039-077 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the N end of a low N-S ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) that is bisected by a NE-SW farm road is visible on the SW side of the road on aerial photographs (MM (58) 23-5). It is also visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 29 January, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Hill House, farm house, 1915–1925 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1920, on a rectangular plan originally two separate three-bay two-storey houses centred on single-bay two-storey "bas-relief" breakfront. Sold, 1991. Hipped slate roofs with lichen-spotted ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves (south) or cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves (north) retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls; creeper- or ivy-covered rendered surface finish (breakfront) with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice. Paired lancet blind openings (breakfront) with slate sills, and concealed dressings with hood moulding framing rendered infill. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite or concrete sills, and concealed dressings with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed hood mouldings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds.
- Kilmannock House, country house, 1775–1785 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey over basement country house, built 1780, on T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height lean-to central return (west). Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan centred on lean-to slate roof (west), clay ridge tiles, paired granite ashlar central chimney stacks on granite ashlar chamfered bases having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rosette-detailed timber consoles with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast coursed or snecked rubble stone walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered, ruled and lined plinth with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of six cut-granite steps, doorcase with three quarter engaged Doric colonettes on plinths supporting ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze on architrave, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having overlight with fixed-pane sidelights. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-granite sill, monolithic mullions, and rendered surround framing two-over-two timber sash window with blind side panels. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (top floor) with cut-granite sill, monolithic mullions, and rendered surround framing four-over-eight timber sash window having two-over-four sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one (ground floor), two-over-two (first floor) or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, Ionic columnar screen (west), and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds.
- Kilmannock House, walled garden, 1775–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Walled garden, extant 1840, on a square plan with creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping centred on red brick Running bond piers having pyramidal capping; red brick Running bond surface finish to courtyard elevations. Now disused. Set in grounds shared with Kilmannock House.
- Kilmannock House, gates/railings/walls, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, built 1879, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of cut-granite monolithic piers having shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates with cut-granite monolithic outer piers having shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Kilmannock House.
- Dunbrody Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Three-arch bridge over river, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls centred on seaweed-covered triangular cutwaters to piers with lichen-covered cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having rubble stone soldier course coping. Series of three round arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar block-and-start voussoirs. Sited spanning Campile River with unkempt grass banks to river.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmannock.
- 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 Kilmannock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmannock · Cill Mosheanóg
- Area
- 2,493,342 m² (249.33 ha, 616.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmokea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Kilmokea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmokea electoral division: 886 people in 306 households; 67% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyedock, Ballynamona, Dunbrody, Greatisland, Horeswood
- Placenames
- Kilmannock 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.