Kilmichael
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cill Mhichíl
- Area
- 76.1 ha
- 188 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 1,252 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmichael, from 57 m² to 630,112 m² (63.01 ha, 155.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Kilmichael 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
21 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260065
22 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an extension to an existing kitchen, including
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251195
4 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the installation of an on-site sewage treatment system
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250827
17 Jun 2025N/a
Permission for the installation of an on-site sewage treatment system as an upgr
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250733
19 Dec 2024N/a
Permission for retention of an extension to an existing kitchen, including an
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241596
25 Nov 2024Refused
Permission for retention of alterations made to the existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241454
11 Nov 2024Refused
Permission for the installation of an on-site sewage treatment system
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241393
23 Jul 2024Refused
Permission for retention of alterations made to existing domestic garage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240875
31 Oct 2023Refused
Permission for retention of an extension to an existing kitchen
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231315
17 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for a) new goods entrance placed in an existing wall ad
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220646
28 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a new vehicle access gateway with driveway and close up
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220559
24 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190885
20 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190672
10 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SPLIT-LEVEL BUNGALOW WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORT U
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181700
16 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION IS SOUGHT FOR THE CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE TO LIVING
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171095
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cahore Point North Sandhills 001736
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmichael.
Architectural heritage
- Store/warehouse, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted storehouse, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. Replacement pitched (gable-fronted) artificial slate roof with pressed iron ridge, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable (west) on cut-granite kneelers with octagonal finial to apex, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with lichen-spotted cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Elliptical-headed carriageway below cut-granite shield panel with red brick block-and-start surround centred on cut-granite keystone framing timber boarded double doors having overpanel. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds with fittings not visible. Set back from line of road with unkempt grass verge to front.
- Boathouse, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted lifeboat house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stack (east) having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pot, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable (west) on cut-granite kneelers with trefoil finial to apex, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with lichen-spotted cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed carriageway in camber- or segmental-headed recess with red brick block-and-start surround centred on cut-granite keystone framing timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing concrete block infill. Set back from line of road with unkempt grass verge to front.
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 20 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmichael.
- 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 Kilmichael with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmichael · Cill Mhichíl
- Area
- 761,288 m² (76.13 ha, 188.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Cahore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cahore electoral division: 509 people in 196 households; 85% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahore, Glascarrig South, Seaview
- Placenames
- Kilmichael 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.