Saintkierans
Townland in the civil parish of Tintern, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cill Chiaráin
- Area
- 194 ha
- 479 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 5,984 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Saintkierans, from 224 m² to 494,815 m² (49.48 ha, 122.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Saintkierans 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
27 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for the erection of extensions and alterations to existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20261138
20 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a memorial feature for display of the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240705
28 Jun 2023Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Outline permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230738
5 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following: a) Permission to construct agricultural shed to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230478
5 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for a change of use from agricultural shed to a car garage & home
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221058
26 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing dwelling for the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211842
2 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & garage and remo
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211696
20 Oct 2021N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211626
21 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211170
11 Jun 2020N/a
Permission for a semi permanent structure and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200614
16 Mar 2020N/a
Permission for a semi permanent structure and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200317
19 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVE AN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191688
13 Sept 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191271
29 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION IS SOUGHT FOR THE ADDITION OF 2 NO. WINDOWS AND 1 NO
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190746
29 May 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190748
20 Dec 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF OYSTER FISHING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181790
9 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF A SUNROOM TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WIT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180938
8 May 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF OYSTER FISHING EQUIPME
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180603
24 Jul 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF OYSTER FISHING EQUIPMEN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170975
22 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DISCONNECTON OF AN OUTFALL PIPE FROM AN EXISTING PERCOLATION
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161433
22 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE FOLLOWING UNAUTHORIZED WORKS TO AN EXISTING
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160042
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: Bannow Bay SAC 000697
- Special Protection Area: Bannow Bay SPA 004033
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bannow Bay 000697
Recorded monuments
- WX045-030001 Church
Description
St. Kerane is listed as a chapel of Tintern in 1552 (Hore 1901-11, vol. 2, 92), and it probably served as a chapel-of-ease for the village of St. Keran, which is described amongst the possessions of Tintern abbey (WX045-027001-) at the Suppression in 1540 (ibid. vol. 2, 76). Saintkierans would have been a grange or outfarm of the abbey, which is c. 1.6km to the WNW. The church at Saintkierans is situated in a small fold at the bottom of a S-facing slope and just on the NW shore of Bannow Bay. It is visible as the grass covered foundations (Wth 0.9-1.1m; H c. 0.6-0.8m) of an E-W structure (ext. dims. 18.6m E-W; 7.1m N-S; int. dims 16.2m E-W; 5.15m N-S). It appears to be clay-bonded and the only entrance is a gap (Wth 1.7m) at the centre of the N side. There is a granite bullaun stone (dims 0.84m x 0.62m; H 0.55m) with a single oval basin (dims 0.5m x 0.28m; D 0.16m) within the church. There is no evidence of burial or of an enclosure but there is an old trackway visible as two low parallel earthen banks (ext. Wth 6.4m) running E-W (L c. 30m) just S of the church. 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
- WX045-030002 Bullaun stone
Description
There is a granite bullaun stone (dims 0.84m x 0.62m; H 0.55m) with a single oval basin (dims 0.5m x 0.28m; D 0.16m) within the church of Saintkierans (WX045-030001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 July, 2013
- WX045-030003 Road - road/trackway
Description
Situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope and just on the NW shore of Bannow Bay. There is no evidence of burial or of an enclosure associated with the church of Saintkierans (WX045-030001-) but there is an old trackway visible as two low parallel earthen banks (ext. Wth 6.4m) running E-W (L c. 30m) just S of the church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 July, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Kiln, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding two-oven single-stage lime kiln, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone battered walls with hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Pair of elliptical-headed ovens with cut- or hammered limestone voussoirs centred on cut- or hammered limestone keystones. Set in unkempt grounds on an elevated site with part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to depot having overgrown coping.
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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Saintkierans.
- 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 Saintkierans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Saintkierans · Cill Chiaráin
- Area
- 1,940,270 m² (194.03 ha, 479.45 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
- Garrycullen, Taulaght, Tintern
- Placenames
- Saintkierans 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.