Esker

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker, from 96 m² to 295,468 m² (29.55 ha, 73.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Esker 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.

• 21 Apr 2026N/a

  to continue the filling and leveling of a former sand and gravel pit to return it to agricultural lands through the recovery of clean inert soil and stones (EU Waste Class 17 0504). Original planning permission ref. No. 16/130 refers. This development will require a Waste Facility Permit in accordance with the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations, 2007, as amended for Class 5, 6 & 7 activities. The works will include the restoration of habitat features such as calcareous grasslands, shallow ponds and marsh areas associated with 0.7 hectares of the Esker Pits proposed Natural Heritage Area (pNHA Ref 000832). The works will also include the continued use of existing vehicular entrance, wheelwash and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660233

• 22 Jul 2022N/a

  Extension of Duration for Planning Permission 17/845

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 22484

• 14 Jul 2022Refused

  of Planning Permission Register Ref P18/65

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 22459

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a new two storey dwelling also incorporating a single storey section, on-site sewerage treatment, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21779

• 17 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a one and a half storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance to public road, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, private bore well together with all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20790

• 3 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and raised bed percolation area, new bore well, entrance to public road and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18211

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct / install a new dwelling, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system, new entrance, private well and all associated site works on site in

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1865

• 15 Jan 2018N/a

  for changes to the private house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system approved under Planning Ref 072125 with all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1822

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  for construction of one and half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17845

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  retention permission for a 5.7m high single storey extension, 67.6m2 in area, to the rear of a previously authorized bungalow to give a total area of 180.6m2 and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17443

• 22 Jun 2017Conditional

  permission for the following: 1. To demolish an existing cubicle shed and relocate an existing hay barn structure, 2. To construct a new slatted cubicle shed and underground effluent storage tank together with all other associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17404

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Esker Pits 000832

Recorded monuments

• KK010-063 Enclosure
  Description

  On the W side of the Dinin river valley, overlooking the meandering river which flows c. 130m to the W, in rolling grassland. There are good views to the E and S, with rising land impeding the view to the W and N. The enclosure (dims. c. 34m NW-SE; c. 28m NE-SW) is depicted on the 25-inch OS map as sub-square with straight or slightly curving sides and rounded N and E corners. The SW side and S and W corners have been truncated by a field boundary running NW-SE along the SW side. The public road runs NE-SW immediately SE of and parallel to the SE side. The field boundaries in the vicinity have been cleared and the monument levelled. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Esker, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Esker · An Eiscir

Area

1,837,490 m² (183.75 ha, 454.05 acres)

Civil parish

Mothell, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Muckalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 188 households in the Muckalee electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbetstown, Gragara, Inchabride, Inchakill Glebe, Kilcollan, Lisnafunshin, Shanganny, Webbsborough

Placenames

Esker 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.