Hillfarm

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hillfarm, from 607 m² to 470,965 m² (47.1 ha, 116.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Hillfarm 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Hillfarm 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Hillfarm.

Recorded monuments

• KD032-062 Battlefield
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KD032-075 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Cropmark of small circular-shaped enclosure or possible ditch-barrow (approx. diam. 13m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• KD032-076 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Cropmark of small circular-shaped enclosure or possible ditch-barrow (approx. diam. 15m) bisected by cropmark of a later field boundary visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• KD032-077 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of small circular-shaped enclosure or possible barrow (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Cropmark of possible circular-shaped pond to NW, See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Hillfarm, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Hillfarm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Hillfarm · Feirm an Chnoic

Area

966,107 m² (96.61 ha, 238.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrush, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

698 people lived in 228 households in the Kilrush electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybarney, Borough, Bullhill, Castlefarm, Greatrath, Lipstown Upper, Rock, Tippeenan Upper

Placenames

Hillfarm 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.