Blessington

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blessington, from 32 m² to 235,931 m² (23.59 ha, 58.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Blessington 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.

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  to erect a three-bedroom single storey dwelling, and a sewage treatment system together with a vehicle entrance with a driveway, the sinking of a well and all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460348

• 14 Jul 2022Conditional

  for the renovation and extension of an existing dwellinghouse and the extension and material change of use of adjoining existing agricultural outbuildings to domestic use, which will include a separate granny flat, and will involve part demolition, alteration and reconstruction of same, and to carry out all associated site development works, including the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and the installation of a new wastewater treatment unit & percolation area

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22463

• 4 Jan 2022Conditional

  for change of design of the storey and a half dormer dwelling, on-site sewerage treatment, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works that was previously granted under planning applications 14290 and 19622

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 221

• 2 Sept 2019Unconditional

  of Planning Permission Reference P14/290

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 19622

• 14 May 2018Conditional

  for development at this site. The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18307

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 Blessington.

Recorded monuments

• KK028-036 Enclosure
  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.

• KK029-019 Enclosure
  Description

  At the NW base of Saddle Hill with a river c. 50m to the S, flowing eastward. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 274), In Mr. Sheehy’s land, in Blessington, is a great “raw,” or rath [KK028-036----] … East of this, at the base of Saddle Hill, and also in Mr. Sheehy’s land, is another very large circular “raw.”. It is indicated as a roughly circular field (diam. c. 66m) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with no enclosing element in the NW quadrant. On the later 1900-01 revision a field boundary is indicated running NE-SW across the perimeter of the NW quadrant. On satellite imagery (Digitalglobe 2011-13, accessed 8 March 2022) the enclosure is visible as a small grass-covered field with trees and scrub growing on the enclosing element. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 March 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

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

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

Name

Blessington · Lios na mBeannacht

Area

1,740,114 m² (174.01 ha, 429.99 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Famma, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Famma electoral division: 341 people in 118 households; 86% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Badgerrock, Cloghscregg, Coppanagh, Kilkieran, Mungmacody, Raheendonore, Rossroe, Ruppa

Placenames

Blessington 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.