Constablehill
Townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Baile na Fuinseoige
- Area
- 142.5 ha
- 352 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 4,303 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Constablehill, from 107 m² to 270,342 m² (27.03 ha, 66.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Constablehill 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
3 Aug 2022Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, septic tank, & percolation area, associated landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 22253
7 Jun 2022Conditional
development at the Curragh Hacketstown, Co. Carlow. The development will consist of revisions to site boundaries granted under PL ref.21113 and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22183
6 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the construction of a single storey dwelling, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, new splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21113
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Constablehill.
Recorded monuments
- CW004-042 Bullaun stone
Description
Bullaun stone noted in field during compilation of the original SMR. When site was inspected by ASI in 1987 the field had been cleared and the bullaun stone was not located. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011
- CW004-071 Hilltop enclosure
Description
On the summit of Constable Hill, under pasture. A trigonometric station showing a height of 760ft above sea level is indicated on the 1st and revised ed. of the 6-inch OS map within the area of the enclosure, though the enclosure itself is not indicated. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 56m), defined by a fosse on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery, 3 April 2013 and 7 June 2013), identified and reported by Ivor Kenny. A field boundary runs roughly NNE-SSW through the eastern portion of the enclosure and the enclosure is less clear E of this field boundary. A bullaun stone (CW004-042----) is located c. 270m SE of the enclosure and there is a cist (CW009-012----) c. 540m to the SE. See attached imagery: CW004-071----_01 Google Earth imagery, 3 April 2013 CW004-071----_02 Google Earth imagery, 7 June 2013 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 November 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Constablehill.
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 5 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 Constablehill.
- 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 Constablehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Constablehill · Baile na Fuinseoige
- Area
- 1,425,167 m² (142.52 ha, 352.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hacketstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Hacketstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Hacketstown electoral division: 1,226 people in 436 households; 72% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykillane, Curragh, Duffery, Kilconnaught, Stralusky, Vermount, Woodside
- Placenames
- Constablehill 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.