Castlegannon

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlegannon, from 190 m² to 825,864 m² (82.59 ha, 204.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Castlegannon 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.

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  for two no agricultural dry bed sheds and concrete aprons, including all the necessary site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560199

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  for a dwelling house, sewerage system and percolation area, including siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460319

• 11 May 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, detached garage, sewerage treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360186

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewerage treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21291

• 30 Mar 2021N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewerage treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21236

• 27 Nov 2018Refused

  for development. The development will consist of permission for a period of 20 years for:- (a) lowering the floor of the existing permitted quarry from c155m to c143m AOD over the existing extraction area of 2ha.; (b) a 2.25ha extension to the permitted extraction area with a floor level of c143m AOD; (c) settlement lagoons; (d) construction of perimeter soil berm along northeast, west and southwest boundaries of the proposed extension area and perimeter fencing; (e) material testing portacabin; (f) all ancillary site development works and services; and retention permission for:- (g) 0.126ha storage area for topsoil/overburden at the south western corner of the existing quarry; (h) 1 no. portacabin (canteen/site office) 1 no. general storage container and 1 no. portaloo

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18779

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  of existing extension to the existing dwelling house, with additional bedrooms, living areas and kitchen area, including all necessary site works at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18310

• 18 Apr 2017Conditional

  for retention of slatted tank and permission for development of cattle shed over existing slatted tank with lie back, cattle crush and enclosure, concrete aprons and associated site works at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17240

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilkeasy Bog 000839

Recorded monuments

• KK036-007001 Church
  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.

• KK036-007002 Graveyard
  Description

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• KK036-007003 Standing stone
  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.

• KK036-008 Ringfort - rath
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Castlegannon National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey single-cell national school, built 1887, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch to left. Now disused. Pitched slate roof (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber eaves. Random rubble stone walls with squared limestone quoins to corners, and cut-limestone date stone/plaque [date not discernible] to gable to porch. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, red brick voussoirs, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick voussoirs, and timber boarded door. Set back from road in grounds shared with school master's house.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Castlegannon.

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

Name

Castlegannon · Caisleán Geanainn

Area

3,923,620 m² (392.36 ha, 969.55 acres)

Civil parish

Derrynahinch, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Castlegannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlegannon electoral division: 160 people in 52 households; 91% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytarsna, Castlebanny, Coolmeen, Crowbally, Kilkeasy, Knockmoylan

Placenames

Castlegannon 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.