Kyle Lower
Kyle Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Choill Íochtarach.
- Area
- 63 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 1,995 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kyle Lower, from 1,486 m² to 2,503 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kyle Lower 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
No planning application touches the townland of Kyle Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
- WX032-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the bottom of a N-facing slope in the valley of the N-S River Slaney with the river c. 200m to the W and a small E-W stream c. 200m to the N. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at N is visible on aerial photographs (MM (51) 21, 22). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 August, 2012 Amended: 21 February, 2014
Architectural heritage
- Lonsdale, country house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over basement country house, under construction 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; four-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. In occasional use, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1949. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan centred on hipped slate roof with pressed or rolled lead ridges, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered, ruled and lined monolithic piers to corners. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing nine-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting timber gate.
- Lonsdale, monument, 1785–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cut-granite monument, erected 1786, on a square plan. Set on creeper- or ivy-covered outcrop in grounds shared with Lonsdale.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kyle Lower, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kyle Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kyle Lower · An Choill Íochtarach
- Area
- 630,256 m² (63.03 ha, 155.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Kilpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 762 people lived in 260 households in the Kilpatrick electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydicken Lower, Ballydicken Upper, Ballynacarrig, Kyle Middle
- Placenames
- Kyle Lower 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.