Kitestown

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kitestown, from 44 m² to 68,518 m² (6.85 ha, 16.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kitestown 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.

• 22 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of: 1. A granny flat erected in 2006. 2. Retention of

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240315

• 21 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the following; 1) proposed kitchen-living room and outdoor covere

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231566

• 13 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling and separate garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220020

• 11 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201533

• 19 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission (1) To retain boiler room & store room to rear of dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200657

• 28 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE D

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180714

• 5 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170550

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kitestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kitestown.

Architectural heritage

• Arran Cottage, farm house, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, built 1836, on a H-shaped plan originally three-bay single-storey on a symmetrical plan with single-bay (six-bay deep) full-height projecting end bays centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Sold, 1858. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan including gablets to window openings to dormer attic centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered cylindrical chimney stacks on rendered panelled bases on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening with threshold, and creeper- or ivy-covered surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with square-headed window openings (dormer attic), cut-granite sills, and "bas-relief" surrounds framing one-over-one (ground floor) or two-over-two (dormer attic) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (end bays) with cut-granite sills, timber cruciform mullions, and "bas-relief" surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron double gates.

• Farm house, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay single-storey single-pile farmhouse, built 1870, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with lichen-spotted threshold supporting cast-iron bootscraper, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newels, and timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled door. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kitestown.

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.

No address of the register names Kitestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Kitestown · Baile an Chiotaigh

Area

459,966 m² (46 ha, 113.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilpatrick electoral division: 762 people in 260 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacshoneen, Ferrycarrig, Kavanaghspark, Killeen, Newcastle, Newcastle Lower, Saunderscourt

Placenames

Kitestown 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.