Kilmisten
Townland in the civil parish of Ardcolm, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford; in Irish Coill Mheistin
- Area
- 46.5 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 1,461 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmisten, from 485 m² to 375,638 m² (37.56 ha, 92.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Kilmisten 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
20 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DECOMMISSIONING OF (SOUTH WEST) EXISTING PUMP INSTALLATION.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161165
11 Oct 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE DECOMMISSIONING OF (SOUTH WEST) EXISTING PUMP INSTALLATION. P
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161122
9 Aug 2016N/a
RETENTION OF EXISTING POWER HOUSE (NORTH EAST). PERMISSION FOR THE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160892
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 Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmisten.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmisten.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3094 (ZIP).
- 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 Kilmisten with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmisten · Coill Mheistin
- Area
- 465,094 m² (46.51 ha, 114.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcolm, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Ardcavan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardcavan electoral division: 3,011 people in 1,125 households; 79% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcavan, Ardcolm, Ballycrane, Craanagam, Craanatore, North West Slob
- Placenames
- Kilmisten 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.