Cullaun
Cullaun is a townland in the civil parish of The Rower, barony of Ida, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is An Collán.
- Area
- 196.8 ha
- 486 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 6,857 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullaun, from 7 m² to 223,069 m² (22.31 ha, 55.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cullaun 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
7 Mar 2024Conditional
for the construction of an indoor arena and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460111
15 May 2023Conditional
for the construction of animal house with seepage tank with concrete apron and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 23122
23 May 2022N/a
is sought for the restoration of the existing ruinous 4-storey mill (a protected structure No. D119 Allen's Mill) and re-use as a private residence, installation of wastewater treatment system & polishing filter and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22331
12 May 2020Conditional
for development at this site. This Development will consist of Planning Permission for Agricultural Building / Stables using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20287
4 Sept 2019Conditional
for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage, site entrance and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19632
8 Feb 2018Conditional
for retention of garage as constructed and for Planning Permission to extend the existing garage to corner of existing retaining wall, including all necessary site works at
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 1883
23 Oct 2017Conditional
is sought to erect a 3 bedroom single storey dwelling house, with new entrance, septic tank with percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17700
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rathsnagadan Wood 000409
Recorded monuments
- KK033-013 Ringfort - unclassified
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.
- KK033-014 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cullaun.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cullaun, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cullaun.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cullaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Cullaun · An Collán
- Area
- 1,968,058 m² (196.81 ha, 486.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- The Rower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ida
- Electoral division
- Coolhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 280 people lived in 93 households in the Coolhill electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinabarney, Ballygub New, Brandonhill, Coolnamuck, Cullentragh, Lennaght, Rathsnagadan
- Placenames
- Cullaun 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.