Kilboy

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilboy, from 1,987 m² to 129,642 m² (12.96 ha, 32.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Kilboy 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.

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  (a) changes to and retention of existing single storey entrance porch 19 sq.m. (extension no 1) (b) Retention of first floor extension to the south on previously granted first floor terrace 6.8 sq.m. Reg Ref: 928812 (extension no 2) (c) retention of single storey metal shed/garage 15 sq.m. (structure A) (d) Retention of single storey black timber clad building 27.5 sq.m. (structure B) with use ancillary to the main house.(e) retention of existing timber sheeted gate and side panels in timber hit and miss style fence together with a reduction of existing timber fence at the front to a height of 1.2m

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660417

• 14 Aug 2023Refused

  single storey entrance porch to the western/ public roadside elevation of 14 sq.m. on foot of warning letter UD5645

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23650

• 20 Jul 2023N/a

  single storey entrance porch to the western/public roadside elevation of 14 sq.m. on foot of Warning Letter UD5645

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23607

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  for retention permission for extensions as built, stone elevations as built, new roof on dwelling as built, internal layout as built, conversion of attic space as built and permission for removal of existing sewage system, installation of new wastewater system to current standards, blocking up existing domestic and agriculture entrances, construction of new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360030

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  removal of planning condition no. 3 of planning ref 01/5242 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of persons)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221153

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 Kilboy.

Recorded monuments

• WI031-021001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope. Traditionally the site of Kilboy church, human bones in large quantities were reputed to have been found here in the 18th century (O'Flanagan 1928, 127). Ronan (1928, 50) mentions a church called Cill Buidhe ('Yellow Church') which stood on 'an ancient rath'. Not visible at ground level. The site is within a circular enclosure (diam. 30m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6-2m) with external drystone facing on the S side where the bank forms part of the lane. There are no indications of an external fosse or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 127/1940).

• WI031-021002 Church
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope. Traditionally the site of Kilboy church, human bones in large quantities were reputed to have been found here in the 18th century (O'Flanagan 1928, 127). Ronan (1928, 50) mentions a church called Cill Buidhe ('Yellow Church') which stood on 'an ancient rath'. Not visible at ground level. The site is within a circular enclosure (diam. 30m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6-2m) with external drystone facing on the S side where the bank forms part of the lane. There are no indications of an external fosse or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 12 July 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 127/1940).

• WI031-021003 Graveyard
  Description

  Ronan (1928, 150) noted that 'Kilboy or Cill-buidhe (yellow church) (WI031-021002-) stood on an ancient rath, 28 yds. in diameter. When Colonel Acton was levelling it he came across such a quantity of bones that he desisted in his operations. Kilboy was probably the church of Balimacapeil.' Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 12 July 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 127/1940).

• WI031-096 Pit
  Description

  This is the record for the pit excavated by Red Tobin (E3243) on the N11 road improvement scheme. A radiocarbon date places the pit in the early Neolithic period. (Tobin 2009f) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload; 17 January 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilboy.

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 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

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

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 Kilboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Kilboy · Cill Bhaoith

Area

405,152 m² (40.52 ha, 100.12 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunganstown South electoral division: 954 people in 320 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard Lower, Ballard Upper, Ballinacor East, Ballinacor West, Ballinameesda Lower, Ballycapple, Ballycapple Hill

Placenames

Kilboy 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.