Damma Upper

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Damma Upper, from 1,135 m² to 551,013 m² (55.1 ha, 136.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Damma 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.

• 22 Feb 2022Conditional

  to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area to new treatment plant and sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2298

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Damma Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-125 House - 17th century
  Description

  A stylised castle is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘The Barony of Crannagh in the County of Kilkenny’ in the 17th-century townland of ‘Dammagh’. It is not indicated on the Down Survey parish map ‘The Parrish of Ballicallan and parte of the Parrish of Tullohan’ which, according to the accompanying terrier, was the property of the Countess of Ormond in 1640 and was unforfeited land, thus the buildings in the townland were not drawn on the parish map or mentioned in the terrier. The location of the castle appears to equate with the modern townland of Damma Upper. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 442-3) in a discussion of St Michael’s church or ‘Mickle’s Church’ (KK018-051001-), located c. 1km to the NNW of Damma House, relates that it was built by ‘Mr. William Smyth of Damma, who died in 1655’ was rebuilt by his grandson Mr. Valentine Smyth of Damma, who died in 1700; and was again rebuilt by Mr. Valentine Smyth’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jane Smyth, otherwise Read, of Damma, who died in 1747’. The long association of the Smyth’s with Damma suggests that Damma House may date to the 17th century or that if the house was rebuilt it may contain fabric of a 17th-century house or the castle indicated on the Down Survey barony map. See attached: KK019-125----_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of ‘The Barony of Crannagh in the County of Kilkenny’ (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 October 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Damma 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).

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Damma 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.

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

Name

Damma Upper · Dámach Uachtarach

Area

669,560 m² (66.96 ha, 165.45 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycallan, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Ballycallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycallan electoral division: 461 people in 147 households; 94% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleven, Ballyfrunk, Ballyhendricken, Cloghoge, Damma Lower, Michaelschurch

Placenames

Damma 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.