Blanchvilleskill

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blanchvilleskill, from 94 m² to 119,252 m² (11.93 ha, 29.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Blanchvilleskill 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.

• 9 Feb 2024Conditional

  is sought to construct a two-storey with a single-storey section to the rear of the proposed new dwelling house, detached garage, private well, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, upgraded existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2418

• 30 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a new two storey dwelling with attached domestic garage, on-site sewerage treatment, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21973

• 20 May 2019N/a

  is hereby sought for a self contained granny flat consisting of the change of use of the existing attached garage to living space, with a first floor extension above to include a bedroom and ensuite, along with associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19335

• 23 Apr 2019N/a

  for the change of use of existing attached garage to living space, with a first floor extension above to include a bedroom and ensuite, along with associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19275

• 30 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct/install a new dwelling, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system, new entrance, private well and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18721

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 Blanchvilleskill.

Recorded monuments

• KK020-042 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Identified as the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ALV036, 26 July 1965) and also visible on a satellite image (Google Earth, 14 July 2018). It is defined by a deep fosse with no apparent entrance gap. See attached satellite image: KK020-042----_01 Google Earth, 14 July 2018 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 December 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Blanchvilleskill.

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 Blanchvilleskill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Blanchvilleskill · Cill na mBlóinsíneach

Area

529,271 m² (52.93 ha, 130.79 acres)

Civil parish

Gowran, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Dunbell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunbell electoral division: 525 people in 192 households; 93% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blanchvillespark, Blanchvillestown, Kylebeg, Rathcash East, Sheafield North

Placenames

Blanchvilleskill 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.