Kinnagh
Townland in the civil parish of Tintern, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cionn Eich
- Area
- 170.7 ha
- 422 acres
- Land parcels
- 90
- registered freehold, median 2,888 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinnagh, from 83 m² to 215,872 m² (21.59 ha, 53.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Kinnagh 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
15 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension, renovation and changes to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260614
21 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling with domestic
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240181
18 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention for amendments to a dwelling house constructed under
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230541
15 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211129
4 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house.
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210872
31 May 2021Granted (unconditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160290
15 Dec 2017Granted (unconditional)
CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEWAGE TREATME
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20130391
20 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170782
12 May 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO INCLUDE SLATTED TAN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160496
12 Feb 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO INCLUDE SLATTED TAN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160123
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 Kinnagh.
Recorded monuments
- WX045-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in a slight col with slightly higher ground to the N and S. The cropmark of a D-shaped or subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a slight fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ASZ 48) with the straight side at W and a possible entrance at E. There is evidence of fields attached to it. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 23 July 2013
- WX045-005001 Church
Description
Located on a slight E-facing slope and on the E side of a N-S road. The parish church of Kinnagh is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 48m NE-SW; c. 46m NW-SE) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank and hedge. Only the overgrown foundation courses and rubble from the walls remains (ext. dims. 19.5m E-W; 8.1m N-S) of a nave (int. dims 12.5m E-W; 5.2m N-S) and chancel (int. dims 4.8m E-W; 4.3m N-S). The E wall survives to a height of 4m but the window is robbed. The W wall also survives (H 1.1m) but no features are visible. St Martin's Well (WX045-006----), which is still visited, is c. 550m to the ESE. 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: 23 July 2013
- WX045-005002 Graveyard
Description
Located on a slight E-facing slope and on the E side of a N-S road. The parish church of Kinnagh (WX045-005001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 48m NE-SW; c. 46m NW-SE) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank and hedge. St Martin's Well (WX045-006----), is c. 550m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upoad: 25 July, 2013
- WX045-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and a D-shaped feature (ext. dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) on the 1925 ed. It is located on a slight S-facing slope with a W-E stream c. 100m to the S. It is described locally as a circular area defined by a low earthen bank with an outer fosse that was removed c. 1984. It is now a scrub-covered area where the fosse is visible as a wet area (diam. c. 38m). A test excavation (03E1448) recovered evidence of the fosse (Wth c. 6m) beneath re-deposited material (McLoughlin 2006). 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: 23 July 2013
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1881–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Pier-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1881-1901; extant 1902, with "VR [Victoria Regina]" royal cipher. Set in rendered pier.
- Saint Martin's Villa, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with two-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having lichen-spotted capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (west) elevation on red brick header bond eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls; slate hung surface finish to side (south) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround including cut-granite "Cavetto" lintel framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-nine (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows with two-over-four timber sash windows to gables to side elevations; six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (west) elevation. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered monolithic piers to perimeter supporting looped flat iron double gates.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kinnagh.
- 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
- Kinnagh, Ballycullane12 sales
The townland
- Name
- Kinnagh · Cionn Eich
- Area
- 1,707,365 m² (170.74 ha, 421.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tintern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Tintern, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tintern electoral division: 1,744 people in 636 households; 80% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinruane, Ballycullane, Coolroe, Curraghmore, Garrycullen, Saintleonards
- Placenames
- Kinnagh 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.