Clashwilliam Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Gowran, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Clais Liam Uachtarach
- Area
- 118.5 ha
- 293 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 4,580 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clashwilliam Upper, from 14 m² to 316,463 m² (31.65 ha, 78.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Clashwilliam Upper 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
1 Apr 2021Conditional
Sought for new dwelling house and related works comprising: 1) New road entrance twinned with the existing Loughlin Equestrian Yard entrance, 2)Entrance avenue, forecourt, rear yard 3) two storey dwelling house 4) Ancillary single-storey domestic outbuilding 5) Domestic effluent treatment plant and associated percolation area, 6) Associated site works, fencing and landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21251
17 Jan 2020Conditional
to construct / install a new single storey dwelling, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system, new entrance, private well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2014
29 May 2018Conditional
for new dormer type dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new entrance, borehole and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18354
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 Clashwilliam Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clashwilliam Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clashwilliam Upper.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Clashwilliam Upper.
- 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 Clashwilliam Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Clashwilliam Upper · Clais Liam Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,184,692 m² (118.47 ha, 292.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gowran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gowran
- Electoral division
- Gowran, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gowran electoral division: 1,556 people in 535 households; 78% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bodal, Castle Ellis, Clashwilliam, Earlsbog Commons, Gowran, Huntingtown, Watree
- Placenames
- Clashwilliam Upper 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.