Kilqueeny

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilqueeny, from 19 m² to 118,155 m² (11.82 ha, 29.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Avoca Town Plan, Wicklow · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Primary Development Area (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Avoca Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Jun 2024Conditional

  replacement waste water treatment system serving existing dwelling and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24278

• 7 Mar 2023Conditional

  removal of existing septic tank new wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23220

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of single and two storey extensions to the existing house , alterations to all elevations including the addition of new dormer windows, connecting to existing mains services and all ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211247

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  installation of a walking track with public lighting around the perimeter of the community field encompassing the GAA and soccer pitches (approx. 620m). The track shall be elevated on the easterly side where Irish Rail have erected a boundary fence. This area shall be protected with a handrail/fence so it can be used as a viewing and amenity area for games and accessed one end by a ramped area and the other end by steps and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21463

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 Kilqueeny.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilqueeny.

Architectural heritage

• Holy Trinity Church (Castlemacadam), church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Church of Ireland church, built c.1860. The church is constructed in uncoursed squared granite. The chancel end is canted and there are gabled porch and vestry projections. The four-stage tower is finished with a pitched and slated roof. The timber sheeted door has decorative strap hinges and has a pointed arch-headed with moulded dressings; it is set within a small gabled porch. Window openings are generally pointed arch-headed; many are arranged as plain paired lancet but the west windows have plate tracery, while one to the east is a small rose window. The leaded glazing has small diamond panes. The double-piled pitched roof is finished in natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods. The church is set within its own grounds and is part surrounded with a graveyard. It is set back from the road behind wrought-iron railings and matching gate with square gate pillars. The setting overlooks the picturesque Vale of Avoca.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3265 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kilqueeny · Cill Chaoine

Area

587,776 m² (58.78 ha, 145.24 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ovoca, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ovoca electoral division: 728 people in 263 households; 74% of households own their home; 10% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygahan Upper, Ballymoneen, Castlemacadam, Kilmagig Lower, Tinnahinch

Placenames

Kilqueeny 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.