Broadmore
Townland in the civil parish of Callan, barony of Callan, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish An Mhóin Leathan
- Area
- 41.9 ha
- 104 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 12,165 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Broadmore, from 96 m² to 139,018 m² (13.9 ha, 34.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Broadmore 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
15 Jul 2026N/a
for a two-storey, four-bedroom dwelling house, a detached garage a new site entrance, a wastewater treatment system and a raised polishing treatment area, a bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660451
16 Sept 2024Conditional
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING WORKS: CONSTRUCTED FRONT EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460441
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 Broadmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Broadmore.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Hipped thatch roof overhanging lean-to slate roof (windbreak) with chicken wire-covered exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having paired stringcourses, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut-limestone sills, and rendered flush surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3420 (ZIP).
- 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 Broadmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Broadmore · An Mhóin Leathan
- Area
- 419,455 m² (41.95 ha, 103.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Callan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Callan
- Electoral division
- Callan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Callan Rural electoral division: 1,932 people in 628 households; 82% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Moanmore Commons, Molassy, Monarche Commons, Slade, Whitesland
- Placenames
- Broadmore 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.