# Damma Upper, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballycallan, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Dámach Uachtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 669,560 m² (66.96 ha, 165.45 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,644 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballycallan, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/ballycallan.md
- Barony: Crannagh
- Electoral division: Ballycallan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/26724
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 90650
- Centre: latitude 52.635012, longitude -7.342479 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Damma Upper, from 1,135 m² to 551,013 m² (55.1 ha, 136.16 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 863350: 551,013 m² (55.1 ha, 136.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/863350.md
- Parcel 861114: 95,074 m² (9.51 ha, 23.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/861114.md
- Parcel 824276: 11,989 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/824276.md
- Parcel 823840: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/823840.md
- Parcel 861490: 1,644 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/861490.md
- Parcel 825842: 1,608 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/825842.md
- Parcel 870613: 1,438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/870613.md
- Parcel 824635: 1,300 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/824635.md
- Parcel 820924: 1,135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/820924.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 22 Feb 2022, Kilkenny County Council 2298: Conditional. Permission. to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area to new treatment plant and sand polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2298/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KK019-125: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK019-125----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/damma-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/damma-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/damma-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Balleven: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/balleven.md
- Ballyfrunk: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyfrunk.md
- Ballyhendricken: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyhendricken.md
- Cloghoge: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/cloghoge.md
- Damma Lower: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/damma-lower.md
- Michaelschurch: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/michaelschurch.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/damma-upper
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/damma-upper