Birchfield

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birchfield, from 90 m² to 200,172 m² (20.02 ha, 49.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Birchfield 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.

• 4 Dec 2023Conditional

  change of use of existing residential dwelling to veterinary clinic to include single storey extension to the rear and 2-storey extension to the side and front to include a residential apartment on the first floor. Alterations to the existing residential structure, new replacement waste water treatment system, car parking, widened road entrance, boundary treatment, signage, landscaping including all ancillary and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360557

• 21 Sept 2022Refused

  is sought for change of use of existing residential dwelling to veterinary clinic to include single storey extension to the rear and 2-storey extension to the side and front to include residential apartment on the first floor. Alterations to the existing residential structure, foul water connection to the public sewer on the Waterford Road, car parking, widened road entrance, boundary treatment, signage, landscaping including all ancillary and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22626

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the material change of use from Chiropractor Clinic to a Community Dwelling. Permission is also sought for demolition of existing side extension and rear porch, construction of new extensions along with all associated elevational amendments, internal reconfigurations, new waste water treatment system and all site and ancillary works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18181

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 Birchfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Birchfield.

Architectural heritage

• Birchfield House, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey over part-raised basement house, c.1750, on an L-shaped plan with three-bay three-storey return to south continuing into single-bay single-storey flat-roofed end bay having three-bay single-storey shallow bowed elevation to south. In use as dower house, post-1790-1814. In use as college, 1814-39. Mostly refenestrated, c.1900. Now in residential use. Pitched slate roofs (behind parapet to main block) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses, cut-stone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves (concealed cast-iron rainwater goods to main block). Flat roof to end bay not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls with limestone ashlar band to eaves having carved cut-limestone stringcourse supporting blocking course to parapet (carved cut-limestone stringcourse to end bay supporting unpainted rendered parapet having wrought iron railings over). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, replacement one-over-one and two-over-two (top floor) timber sash windows, c.1900, retaining six-over-nine timber sash windows to part of return having three-over-three timber sash windows to basement. Round-headed door opening approached by five cut-limestone steps with cut-limestone channelled pilaster doorcase incorporating block-and-start archivolt, and glazed timber double doors having fanlight. Elliptical-headed door opening to end bay approached by four steps with cut-limestone pilaster doorcase, and glazed timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site.

• Birchfield House, farmyard complex, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, c.1750, including: (i) Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding with pair of square-headed carriageways to left. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on yellow brick eaves. Random squared limestone walls. Square-headed door openings with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, and timber boarded half-doors having louvered timber overpanels. Pair of square-headed carriageways to left with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, and remains of timber fittings. Set back from road in grounds shared with Birchfield House about a courtyard. (ii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic. Reroofed. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables having wrought iron weathervane to apex, and remains of iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and louvered timber panel fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber doors.

• Birchfield House, bridge, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch road bridge over stream, c.1900. Unpainted rendered walls with unpainted rendered parapets having profiled cast-iron posts supporting chains. Pair of segmental arches with unpainted rendered voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Set back from road in grounds shared with Birchfield House spanning stream with grass banks to stream.

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).

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

Name

Birchfield · Páirc an Bhirsigh

Area

640,696 m² (64.07 ha, 158.32 acres)

Civil parish

St. Patrick'S, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalina, Donaghmore, Foulkstown, Goslingstown, Reviewfields, Smithsland North, Smithsland South, Springhill

Placenames

Birchfield on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.