Callan North

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Callan North, from 45 m² to 22,580 m² (2.26 ha, 5.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space / GI (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Jan 2026N/a

  to retain existing rear extension and detached garage/shed and all associated site development works at 4 Lower Bridge Street, Callan, Co. Kilkenny R95 W5A0.

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660021

• 15 Dec 2023Unconditional

  of planning permission 18/841

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 23265

• 15 Sept 2023Conditional

  sought for Extension to existing Coláiste Abhainn Rí post primary school, Callan, Co. Kilkenny , of generally 2 storeys in height , including Specialist Educational Needs Unit, 6 no. classrooms, specialist teaching rooms, support spaces, single storey link to existing school building, total building extension area 2175 M2, external play and yard spaces, new school access road from south west corner of site off Flaggy Lane and separate independent access road to St. Mary’s Convent off Flaggy Lane, relocation of existing grotto on site, reopening of pedestrian access path from Kilkenny Road, demolition of existing single storey study hall and all related site and ancillary related works at Coláiste Abhainn Rí School and St. Mary’s Convent , Kilkenny Road/Lower Bridge Street /Flaggy Lane , Callan. The works are within the curtilage of protected structures, St Mary’s Convent, Scoil Mhuire National School (old) and St Mary’s Chapel, RPS ref. no.s C751, C750 & C749. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the planning application. Applicant: Board of Management, Coláiste Abhainn Rí.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360414

• 9 Nov 2021Refused

  of Planning Permission reference P15/732

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 21921

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  Retention of extension to the rear of existing dwelling and Permission for the change of use of retail shop to residential use (to be incorporated into existing dwelling) and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19710

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  for in-stream remedial works. The remedial works comprise of the construction of a temporary access road, temporary bridge and the removal of sediment deposits and associated vegetation along the river channel above low water level. It is proposed to replace an existing rock armour headwall with a concrete headwall at an existing pipe outfall. The Planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18841

• 4 Sept 2018Conditional

  to complete the construction of 4 dwelling houses and all associated site works at

  Permission, 4 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 18585

• 26 Sept 2017Conditional

  to the rear of Dunree House, for the construction of an independent, detached, one-storey housing unit with pitched roof and all associated site works. Access to the development is via the existing Dunree House rear garden. The development is funded under the Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government Capital Assistance Scheme for Social Housing as part of inclusive neighbourhoods of fully-accessible units for supported self-determined living embedded in the existing support structure of Camphill Community, Callan

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17632

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  for alerations to residence including; demolition of existing first floor bathroom extension; provision of new first floor window; internal alterations including formation of new bathroom and en-suite; adjustment of internal door openings to facilitate room layouts; forming ground level doorway to side garden and all associated works, This Property is included in the Record of Protected Structures, Ref. C40.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17437

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK026-010016 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  On the flat flood plain on the N bank of the Kings River, immediately N of Callan town (KK026-010----) and c. 200m E of the motte and bailey (KK026-010009-). The petition for the foundation of an Augustinian monastery at Callan was instigated by Edmund Butler, and granted by Pope Pius II in 1461. However, following Edmund’s defeat in a battle in 1462 it appears that James, his eldest son, became the founder instead and, as such, was buried in the friary in 1487 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 297). The foundation was probably built in the late 1460s. Carrigan (ibid. 312) notes that James had been living in concubinage with his relative Syve Kavanagh, and that having received a Papal dispensation which enabled him to marry her in 1467, he went on to found this religious house in reparation for his sinful past, in c. 1468-69. Also in 1472 the Observant reform was introduced, the friary being placed directly under the prior general and declared independent of the English provincial, so it must have been in existence for at least a few years prior to this date (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 311; Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 297). In 1479 Callan became the centre of the Irish Observant Congregation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 297). Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, the friary was noted, ‘for its learned community; its library rich in manuscripts and possessing duplicates of all the rare books in the library of the Abbey of Jerpoint; for the richness of its church utensils; but above all, for its care of the poor’ (ibid.). In 1540 William O’Fogarty was the prior and the assets of the three acre monastery included, ‘a church and belfry, dormitory, hall, three chambers, kitchen etc., with gardens and closes, all ruinous and not valued, while three messuages, one with a bakehouse, two gardens and an acre of meadow were valued at 10s. 8d.; also, concealed by Sir Thomas Butler, a ruinous watermill with land, val. 2s. 6d., and a small plot, val. 4d. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 297). In 1541 the monastery was leased for 21 years, at 20s. 8d. a year to James Butler, Earl of Ormond, the grandson of the founder (Curtis 1937, vol. 4, 206, deed 262). Thomas, Earl of Ormond, was granted possession in 1557-58 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 297). The friary was restored by the Board of Works in 1961 (O’Kelly 1985, 176). The upstanding remains consist of a nave (int. L 17.8m; int. Wth 8m; wall T 1.6m) and chancel (int. L 14.54m; Wth 8m; wall T 1.3m) church, separated by a crossing-tower (total L 6.58m; int. Wth 5.08m), built of limestone rubble, roughly coursed. There are angle buttresses on the NE and SE angles of the chancel. Though the substantial fabric of the building is late 15th-century in date, there is evidence that significant modifications were carried out in the nave subsequent to, but not long after, the first phase of construction. The W end of the nave was completely rebuilt, evident in the different masonry style and the presence of an external base-batter (H 2.4m; Wth 0.18m on W gable, 0.33m on N and S wall). During this phase a large cut-stone pointed arch with ribbed soffit was inserted towards the E end of the N wall of the nave, causing a pre-existing window to be blocked up. Also during this phase a doorway in the N wall of the nave was blocked, however, neither the doorway or blocked-up window are visible in the external masonry, indicating that the exterior was re-faced at this time. There is evidence of a N transept (int. Wth 4.1m) running from the crossing-tower, the ties for side walls (wall T 1.25m) and the coping stones for its roof are visible, therefore it is a puzzle as to why an arch for another transept would be inserted in the N wall of the nave. There are no wall scars or ties projecting from the N wall on either side of this arch, which suggests that the transept was never constructed and that the arch was probably blocked up shortly after its construction. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 313) states that when he visited the abbey, the door in the S wall of the chancel was, ‘the only means of ingress to the ruins’, so it seems that the N arch in the nave was blocked up at that stage. Following the Dissolution of the monastery the church appears to have been altered to accommodate a domestic residence. The N arch of the crossing-tower was blocked up and a slop-stone within a pointed niche and fireplace, with chamfered surrounds, was inserted at ground-floor level as well a flat-headed single-light window at first-floor level, the latter being subsequently blocked up. The upper floors of the crossing-tower were probably used as part of this residence. Some crude put-log holes inserted at the E end of the nave probably also date to this phase as well as a flat-headed single-light window with external splay in the S wall of the nave. The pointed moulded doorway in the W gable of the nave, has mouldings very similar to those at the 15th-century Cistercian monastery of Holy Cross, also patronised by the Butlers (O’Donovan 2012, 177). The nave has a two-light mullion and transomed window with flamboyant tracery over the W doorway. This window has an unusually decorated transom, the decoration being continued on the N sill, though the sill has been cut to fit the window which suggests that the decorated stone was reused. The decoration consists of a double incised wavy line with an ivy-leaf beneath the northernmost curve and a small knot in each of the downward curves, all within an incised border along the top and bottom of the slab. In the rebuilt W end there is a two-light ogee-headed window in the N wall and a single-light with head missing in the S wall. At the E end of the S wall there is a flat-headed traceried two-light ogee-headed window. The window is very similar to one in the S wall of the W end of the chancel, at clerestorey level (H above ground 4.8m), which is roughly square. This latter is described by O’Donovan (ibid, 184) as, ‘an isolated piece of cuspless reticulation’. The design for this window appears on a chest-tomb panel in the nearby medieval church of Fertagh (ibid, 184, 187). The version in the nave has been altered, externally it appears to have been lowered, the mullion and lower jambs inserted and the sill is a reused part of the coping course of the cloister. Internally there is evidence that the embrasure was lowered and subsequently blocked up. Originally both these windows would have book-ended the N ambulatory of the cloister above roof height. There are five other windows (av. H above ground 2-2.6m) in the chancel. A two-light ogee-headed window at the E end of the S wall, the central portion of the window head and the mullion are missing. A large broken-out uncusped flamboyant traceried window in the E gable. Three windows in the N wall, an ogee-headed single-light window at the E end, an ogee-headed two-light window at the W end and between them a two-light window with broken-out uncusped flamboyant tracery. The chancel has a sedilia at the E end of the S wall and a piscina under the easternmost window in the same wall. The sedilia also closely resembles that at Holy Cross Abbey. O’Donovan (2012, 177) suggests that this was deliberately designed to emphasis the link between the Callan Butler foundation and the earlier Holy Cross foundation of the main line of the family. The mouldings themselves are unusual, taking the form of mitres (ibid.). A pointed doorway centrally placed in the S wall lead into the E range of the cloister which no longer survives. In the W arch of the crossing-tower there are two opposing grooves, 2.95m above ground level, which mark the position of the rood screen. Access to the upper floors of the crossing-tower is via a small mural spiral stair partially within the thickness of the SW pier of the tower and partially carried on a squinch which projects into the SE angle of the nave. It was lit by narrow single-light windows, the lowest of which is blocked up. There are three chambers. The lowest, at

• KK026-010017 Graveslab
  Description

  In the chancel of the Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) in Callan, lying face down near the E gable. A central portion of a limestone slab (L 1.05m; Wth at top 0.78m; Wth towards base Wth 0.73m; T 0.14m) which appears to be tapering slightly towards the base. The sides of the slab are straight and roughly dressed. This is likely to be the described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 313) as, 'a fragment of a floor-slab, with raised cross. The inscription, which is raised Old English and perfectly legible, runs round the edge, beginning in the middle, at the right side of the cross, and being continued on the top, now missing, and thence down the left side. What remains of now is: Hic i.............[mcccc]lxxxxix & frater Ricard O'Knavy. A small fragment of this same tomb, with the words "cu ani," may be seen at the present Augustinian Convent. Translation:- Here lie .........1499, and Brother Richard O'Knavyn..... On whose soul........... . The Irish name O'Knavyn, is now sometimes anglicised Bowen, cnamh [cnámh] being the Irish for a bone'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 October 2019

• KK026-010018 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On the flat flood plain of the Kings River which flows c. 35m S of the well. The Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) of Callan is located c. 60m to the N. Indicated on the 6-inch OS map as 'St. Augustine's Well'. It is a clear spring well surrounded by a stone wall (dims. 3m x 4.63m), with an entrance on the S side. At the entrance the water flows over a limestone gutter-spout (KK026-010019-) which may have come from the friary. There is no evidence of veneration. The well water flows southward into the Kings River. See attached photographs: KK026-010018-_01 From S (Urban Archaeological Survey, October 1992) KK026-010018-_01 From SW (Urban Archaeological Survey, October 1992) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 October 2019

• KK026-010019 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Incorporated into the entrance of 'St. Augustine's Well' (KK026-010018-) which is c. 60m S of the Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) of Callan and c. 35m N of the Kings River. At the entrance to the holy well the water flows over a limestone gutter-spout (dims. 0.58m x 0.35m; T 0.12m) which may have come from the friary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 October 2019

• KK026-010020 Graveslab
  Description

  In the chancel of the Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) in Callan, leaning against the E gable. A limestone slab (L 1.82m; Wth 1.04m; T at top 0.15m; T at base 0.22m) which tapers in thickness. The straight sides are roughly dressed. It is decorated in false relief with a seven-armed floriated cross, the fleur-de-lys terminating the main arms of the cross encroach on the plain raised border (Wth 0.12m) of the slab. The upper fleur-de-lys in the dexter and sinister angle and the arm of the main upright are defaced. There is a heavy rectangular knop (H 0.12m; Wth 0.17m) beneath the cross-head and the cross-shaft rests on a small curving stepped base. There is a large heraldic shield (H 0.52m; Wth 0.34m) on the sinister side of the cross-shaft but there is no apparent decoration on it. The sinister side of the shield has some damage running vertically from the top to the base. There is no evidence of an inscription. The top dexter corner of the slab is fractured. It is described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 313) as, 'the ponderous table of an altar-tomb, with raised floriated cross and a shield left uncarved; there is no inscription; its date is about 1500'. See attached photograph: KK026-010020-_01 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 October 2019

• KK026-010021 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  Indicated as a 'Mill' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map on a long mill race which runs NE and E from the Kings River, c. 1.1km to the W and rejoins the river c. 80m S of the mill. The mill is c. 100m NW of the Augustinian Friary (KK026-010016-). A Down Survey (1655-6) map, ‘A Survey of the Liberties of Callan by George Marshall an exact copy by Dan[ie]l O Brien Surv[eyo]r’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) indicates two watermills associated with Callan, one (KK026-010021-) N of the Kings River and the other (KK026-010022-) S of the river just outside the E end of the town. A century earlier, in 1556, Thomas, Earl of Ormond, grants to Sir William Wheelane, priest, ‘two water mills at Callan, one within the town and one without’ (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 84, deed 48). It would seem that the mill S of the river originally belonged to the Augustinians and was known in the 16th century as the ‘new mill’ (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 293, deed 305; Moran 1876, 302-03). The mill on the N side of the river therefore must be the mill referred to in the Ormond Deeds as the ‘old mill’. A transaction in 1539 refers to two properties in the town, one lying, ‘by the Earl’s mill called the Old Mill’ (Curtis 1937, vol. 4, 181, deed 225). The ‘old mill’ is also mentioned in a lease of 1562 (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, deed 116). It is possible that this mill formerly served the monastery but it is also just as likely to have been a manorial mill, with the mill race running only c. 60m N of the motte (KK026-010009-), the original manorial centre. The mill race may have formed part of the boundary separating the manorial lands from the Augustinian’s lands to the E. In 1577 the Ormond Deeds refer to a property, ‘in the hill of Callan situated between both the bridges’ (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 284-6, deed 292). The two bridges mention appear to be the main bridge (KK026-010083-) over the Kings River and the bridge over of the millrace (KK026-01084-). On the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map the mill race broadens out N of the mill to form a mill pond. There are several references to a mill pond in the 16th-century Ormond Deeds. In 1569/70 a property is described as extending, ‘from the great bridge and the street between both the bridges in the west to the water of the old mill foot in the east, and from the way leading from said old mill towards said street in the north to the water of the Rye in the south’ and another in 1577, ‘from the King’s street in the west to the mill poind in the east, and from the Earl’s land in the south to the said mill pond in the north, and the other mease, in which Teig O’Meary sometime dwelled, lying on the west side of the old mill’ (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 185, deed 165; 282, deed 292). The mill pond is also mentioned in a deed of 1539, describing properties leased by the Piers, Earl of Ormond to Rose Hedyn in the northern suburb, ‘in breadth from the millpond in the south to John Tobyn’s holding in the north, and the other lies by the Haggard gate in length from the King’s street in the east to the common ditch in the west’, with a condition of the lease being that ‘Rose and children shall…give two men to mind the millpond besides serving said mill in all points as their neighbours do’ (Curtis 1937, vol. 4, 181, deed 225). Attending to the mill appears to have involved, ‘drawing of mill-stone’ which is mentioned in a lease of 1555 (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 88, deed 55). The present building consists of a low three-storey Z-plan complex, extended and modified. The original mill, with its long E-W axis facing onto the mill race, may be the rectangular building, one room deep, with a sprocketed-hip roof, composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with cut quoins visible at the SE angle of the S gable, otherwise covered by an external render. The adjoining N-S building to the E, has a three-bay upper floor on the W face, with a NE-SW one-bay extension onto the E gable. Apart from the later extension, both the E-W and N-S aligned buildings may have pre-1700 origins. There are modern extensions adjoining the E face of the northern block. See attached: KK026-010021-_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) map, ‘A Survey of the Liberties of Callan by George Marshall an exact copy by Dan[ie]l O Brien Surv[eyo]r’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) KK026-010021-_02 View from SW (Google Earth, imagery date August 2019) KK026-010021-_03 View from SE (Google Earth, imagery date August 2019) KK026-010021-_04 View from NE (Google Earth, imagery date August 2019) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 June 2022

• KK026-010025 Bridge
  Description

  Thomas Stuish’s map of 1681, copied in 1765 by Richard Frizell, shows a, ‘New Bridge’ c. 150m E of the ‘Old Bridge’, the latter being the bridge (KK026-010083-) between Upper and Lower Bridge Street (Manning 1998, 63, fig. 13). It is possible that the ‘New Bridge’ was built in the 17th century, though the name ‘new’ can remain in place for many generations, so it could be even earlier in date. It seems likely to have been at the point where Clothier’s Lane runs N from Mill Street (formerly East Street) to the river, providing access to the Abbey lands on the N side of the river. There is no visible trace of the bridge at ground level. See attached: KK026-010025-_01 Thomas Stuish’s map of 1681, copied in 1765 by Richard Frizell (from Manning 1998, Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 June 2022

• KK026-010082 Graveslab
  Description

  Built into the internal face of the W wall of the nave of the Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) in Callan. A broken-off portion of a graveslab has been reused in a re-built section of ashlar stonework. It is N of the W doorway and at the same height as the top of the doorway. The fragment (dims. 0.45m x 0.3m) is from the upper portion of a graveslab and is decorated with two fleur-de-lys terminals of a segmental-headed cross, in false relief. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 February 2021

• KK026-010084 Bridge
  Description

  In the northern suburb of Callan, N of the river and crossing the millrace which is associated with a watermill (KK026-010021-) on the E side of the suburb and W of the Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-). The main road through the suburb was a continuation northward of Green St. (formerly South St.) on Lower Bridge St. (also called Kenles and Kells St.) running between the main bridge (KK026-010083-) and the bridge over the millrace. It would seem that the bridge and millrace date back to at least the 16th century. References to the ‘hill of Callan’ in the Ormond Deeds appear to refer to the N surburb, as a lease of 1577 describes, ‘a mease [rented property] in the hill of Callan by the north end of the great bridge’, while others refer to ‘messuages [a house with outbuildings and a parcel of land/yard] and gardens’, ‘in the hill of Callan situated between both the bridges’ (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 284-6, deed 292). Another lease of 1577 describes a property with a garden, ‘near the little bridge’ (ibid., 282, deed 292). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 June 2022

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1800, with elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Renovated, c.1875, with pubfront inserted to left ground floor. Reroofed, c.1950. Refenestrated. Now entirely in residential use. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with painted roughcast walls to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining one two-over-two timber sash window. Elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor with tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having wicket gate. Timber pubfront, c.1875, to left ground floor with pilasters, fixed-pane and six-over-six timber sash windows (having wrought iron sill guard to sash window), timber panelled double doors having overlight, and fascia having cornice. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Clarke's or Bridge House, house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey house, c.1825. Renovated, c.1875, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Extensively renovated, c.1950, with frontage remodelled to accommodate use as guesthouse. Refenestrated, c.1975. Now disused to right ground floor. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbel tables, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having corbel table. Painted rendered walls with rendered piers to corners having moulded reveals, rendered stringcourses to each floor, and rendered surrounds to gables on corbel tables. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills forming sill courses, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975, retaining one-over-one timber sash window to side (south-west) elevation. Reconstituted limestone shopfront, c.1950, to right ground floor having terrazzo threshold with panelled piers sweeping into consoles (responsive pier to left ground floor), fixed-pane timber windows, replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975, raised lettering, and projecting course over. Road fronted at junction of two roads with concrete footpath to front.

• Saint Mary's Convent of Mercy, convent/nunnery, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay three-storey convent, opened 1881, on a U-shaped plan possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1872, comprising six-bay three-storey central block with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting central entrance bay, and two-bay three-storey advanced flanking end bays having three-bay three-storey side elevations. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roofs on a U-shaped plan (gabled to entrance bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered and yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks, cut-limestone chamfered coping to gable having cross finial to apex, rooflight, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to ends, pointed-arch recess to first floor entrance bay having cut-limestone sill on consoles, moulded surround framing carved statuary, and quatrefoil panel over having raised lettering in moulded frame. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, rendered bas-relief surrounds to main block having moulded reveals, hood mouldings over to ground and to first floors, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Camber-headed door opening to entrance bay (one door opening now blocked-up with unpainted render over) with cut-limestone step, rendered bas-relief surround having moulded reveals, and timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Detached six-bay three-storey block, c.1925, to west. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (in almost-paired arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows.

• Saint Mary's Convent of Mercy, church/chapel, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached seven-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic chapel, built 1906, on a T-shaped plan comprising six-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height lower chancel to north having two-bay single-storey entrance wing to north-east with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch, three-bay single-storey over basement sacristy wing to north-west, and three-bay two-storey connecting wing to south-west. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porch) with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack to chancel on limestone ashlar base, cut-limestone coping to gables having wrought iron cross finials to apexes, cut-limestone buttressed gabled bellcote to gable to south (with pointed-arch aperture having bull-nose reveals, cast-iron bell, and cut-limestone coping over having wrought iron cross finial to apex), and square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having consoles. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls on limestone ashlar plinth with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners, stepped buttresses (clasping corner buttresses to south), and moulded stringcourse to south elevation. Trefoil-headed window openings (some paired in pointed-arch frames having quatrefoils over to arches; pointed-arch window openings to porch) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over supporting inscribed voussoirs, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Rose window to gable to south in pointed-arch recess with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having Corinthian colonette reveals, hood moulding over, colonette mullions forming six-light round-headed arrangement centred on quatrefoil, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel on carved cut-limestone sill course with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, Y-mullions and tracery forming five-part trefoil-headed arrangement having quatrefoils over flanking cinquefoil, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to porch with cut-stone step, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having decorative wrought iron hinges. Square-headed window openings to wing to north-west (some in tripartite arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and one-over-one timber sash windows having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed door opening to wing to north-west approached by flight of four cut-stone steps with cast-iron bootscraper, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having decorative wrought iron hinges. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to connecting wing with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to connecting wing with cut-limestone block-and-start surround (incorporating lintel) having chamfered reveals, and timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in shared grounds.

• House, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Tudor Revival house with half-dormer attic, c.1875, with single-bay two-storey gabled central entrance bay. Extended, c.1900, comprising single-bay single-storey recessed end bay with half-dormer attic to left. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof (gabled to entrance bay) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, cut-limestone chamfered coping to gables, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves having dentil corbels. Tooled limestone ashlar walls with painted rendered wall to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with pointed-arch window openings to half-dormer attic having cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Tudor-headed door opening with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and replacement glazed timber panelled door. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road with random rubble stone boundary wall, and side (north) elevation fronting on to road.

• Saint Mary's Convent of Mercy, school, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay double-height national school, built 1889-90, on a H-shaped plan with three-bay double-height projecting flanking wings having seven-bay double-height side elevations (accommodating three-bay double-height return wings to south) with single-bay double-height gabled central bays. Refenestrated with some openings remodelled. Pitched slate roofs on a H-shaped plan (gabled to central bays to side elevations) with terracotta ridge tiles having wrought iron cross finials to apexes, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with inscribed cut-limestone plaque. Pointed-arch window openings (some remodelled forming door openings) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, and replacement uPVC casement windows having tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors to remodelled openings with overlights. Square-headed door openings with cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set in shared grounds perpendicular to road with side (east) elevation overlooking road.

• Keogh's Model Bakery, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey building, c.1900, on a corner site possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1800, with three-bay two-storey elevation to west, single-bay single-storey canted entrance bay to south-west having box oriel window to first floor, single-bay two-storey return elevation to south, and wrap-around shopfront to ground floor. Refenestrated. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoined piers to ends and to corners. Square-headed window openings (including to box oriel window on rendered jetty) with concrete sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Wrap-around shopfront to ground floor with three-quarter fluted pilasters, decorative glazed clay tile intermediary panels, fixed-pane timber display windows, glazed timber panelled double doors on mosaic-tiled threshold having overlight, timber panelled door to house having overlight, glazed fascia over having inscribed brass lettering, and lined coping. Interior with decorative carved timber display shelving to ground floor, and timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings to first floor. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, c.1800, on a corner site. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Refenestrated, 2004. Now in use as two separate two-bay three-storey (north) and single-bay three-storey (south) houses. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves having iron ties. Painted rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (west) elevation with rendered quoins to ends, and unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows, 2004, to left (north) having replacement uPVC casement windows, 2004, to right (south). Timber panelled shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor (originally accommodating two separate commercial spaces) with panelled pilasters having decorative consoles, replacement timber (left) and uPVC (right) casement windows, 2004, on panelled stall risers, timber panelled door and double doors having overlights, fascia on moulded course having Celtic strap work detailing, and moulded cornice on corbels. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

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Radon

About 1 in 5 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_3417 (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.

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

Name

Callan North · Callainn Thuaidh

Area

87,812 m² (8.78 ha, 21.7 acres)

Civil parish

Callan, and its townlands

Barony

Callan

Electoral division

Callan Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Callan Urban electoral division: 1,969 people in 747 households; 54% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Callan South, Clashacollare, Haggartsgreen, Minnauns, Westcourt Demesne

Placenames

Callan North 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.