Kilpierce
Townland in the civil parish of Templeshannon, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Coill Phiarais
- Area
- 108.8 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 4,081 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilpierce, from 61 m² to 185,398 m² (18.54 ha, 45.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Kilpierce 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
28 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a single-storey steel framed building for grading
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251565
8 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
1) Permission for retention of the processing and storage facility for bagged a
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241389
14 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240534
1 Sept 2023N/a
1) Permission for retention of the existing entrance wing walls and concrete
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231037
26 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the following: 1) retention of a change of use of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230732
1 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230198
13 Feb 2023N/a
Permission for retention of an existing steel framed building for the storage of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230133
20 Sept 2022Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221255
19 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
permission to erect a steel framed building for the storage of dry sands and agg
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211154
10 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of farm storage shed for storing of straw and hay and as
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201317
1 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF FARM STORAGE SHED FOR STORING OF STRAW AND HAY ASSOCI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191346
28 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF OUR EXISTING DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190256
13 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170440
21 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RET
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170337
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 Kilpierce.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilpierce.
Architectural heritage
- Cooladine Bridge, bridge, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1844. Creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls between creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone piers with overgrown coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with lichen-spotted granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Ballyedmond River with unkempt 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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3016 (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
- Kilpierce, Enniscorthy5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Kilpierce · Coill Phiarais
- Area
- 1,088,226 m² (108.82 ha, 268.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeshannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Ballyhuskard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhuskard electoral division: 1,705 people in 586 households; 88% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooladine, Coolgarrow, Corbally, Garrantrowlan, Kilcotty More, Tomnafunshoge
- Placenames
- Kilpierce 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.