Friarsinch

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friarsinch, from 170 m² to 86,540 m² (8.65 ha, 21.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity / Green links/Biodiversity conservation/ Open Space/Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a 2-Storey split level detached 4 No bedroom dwelling house, with the main living space at the upper level and 4 No bedrooms and 3 No bathrooms on the lower level, together with 2 No parking spaces, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS),

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2594

• 26 Aug 2025N/a

  to construct a 2-Storey split level detached 4 No. bedroom dwelling house, with the main living space at the upper level and 4 No. bedrooms and 3 No. bathrooms on the lower level together with 2 No. parking spaces, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2587

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  for alterations and renovation of our existing dwelling, plus construction of a new two storey extension to the side of our existing dwelling, Alterations to existing front boundary wall and site entrance, plus all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460297

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  for change of use of an existing vacant medical clinic to residential accommodation / dwelling house

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460204

• 15 Aug 2022Conditional

  for the following development: 1. Alterations to existing site entrance. 2. Replacement of existing shed with single-storey extension to rear of existing dwelling. 3. All necessary services and site works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22530

• 3 May 2022Conditional

  for rear extension comprising split level lower ground floor and ground floor levels with external terracing, rear sunroom extension also to include elevation alterations comprising revised bay window extension to the front elevation, roof finish, widened road entrance and new pedestrian gate, internal alterations, boundary treatment, landscaping including all ancillary and associated works also Retention Permission sought for the demolition of the garage and rear extension

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22280

• 8 Mar 2022N/a

  is sought for rear extension comprising split level lower ground floor and ground floor levels with external terracing, also to include elevation alterations comprising revised bay window extension to the front elevation, roof finish, widening road entrance and new pedestrian gate, internal alterations, boundary treatment, landscaping including all ancillary and associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22148

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  to retain: single storey extensions to rear, and to front, of existing dwelling, and also detached garage, including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2188

• 5 Dec 2019Unconditional

  of Planning Permission Reference P14/94

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 19902

• 11 Sept 2019Conditional

  for modification to the existing planning approval reference 17/593 for 8 detached houses, to increase the floor area of each house to 246 sqm by extending the length by approximately 2.5m and forming garden terracing at the lower floor level. All other aspects remain as previously approved

  Permission, 8 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 19654

• 28 Aug 2019N/a

  for modification to the existing planning approval reference 17/593, for 8 detached houses, to increase the floor area of each house to 246 sqm by extending the length by approximately 2.5m and forming garden terracing at the lower floor level. All other aspects remain as previously approved

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19607

• 14 Aug 2019N/a

  is sought for alterations to previously approved residential development Ref: 17/593 to increase the floor area of 8 no. detached houses by extending the building length by approximately 2.5m. All other aspects remain as previously approved

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19576

• 24 Jul 2018Conditional

  for the following: 4no. 5-bed detached houses with new vehicular entrances off the Greenshill Road, 5no. 2-bed apartments in a multi-storey building - 5 storeys to rear and 3 storeys to front - with new vehicular entrance, mini-round-about and associated roadworks at the junction of Greenshill Road and Bleach Road; New bike/bin store, boundary treatments, connection to existing services and all other associated site development works at

  Permission, 4 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 18496

• 11 Sept 2017Conditional

  for 'Alterations to previously approved development Reg. Ref. 15/16 (Permission for 4 no. detached dwellings) as amended by Reg. Ref. 16/831, (permission for 8 no. semi-detached dwellings) to provide for 2.725 metre separation between the 8no. approved dwellings to create 8 no. detached (4 no. three bedroom and 4 no. four bedroom) dwellings. The proposed dwellings are three storey to rear and single storey to frontage with Bleach Road. Provision of 4 no. shared vehicular entrances to Bleach Road; private rear gardens, construction of retaining walls/shared boundaries; provision of 2 no. parking spaces per dwellings; and all ancillary site development works necessary to facilitate the development'

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17593

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to demolish an existing single storey veterinary clinic structure (disused) and construction of a new two storey dwelling house and ancillary garage and car port, new vehicular and pedestrian entrance to Greenshill, associated boundary treatments and all site and ancillary works. All works to take place at the corner of

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17236

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
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• KK019-026040 Bridge
  Description

  Situated 30m upstream of the present 18th-century Greens Bridge (NIAH 12004007) are the remains of the abutments of its 16th-century precursor which was destroyed in the 'Great Flood' of 1763 (Farrelly et al. 1993, 35-6). The first record of a bridge crossing at this location occurs c.1200 and it is referred to as the 'big bridge of Kilkenny' c.1223 (Farrelly et al 1993, 35-6; Bradley 2000, 21). In 1338 this bridge was destroyed and its replacement was removed in c.1443. The bridge that prefaced the present Greens Bridge was built by Bishop Oliver Cantwell before 1526, and it is recorded as being in a 'decayed state in 1623 (Bradley 2000, 21). The first allusion to the name 'Grines Bridge', presumably in reference to a personal name, dates to 1623 and it is marked, schematically, on the 1654 Down Survey map (ibid.). In 1710 the Cantwell bridge was 'out of repair' (ibid.) and it is marked on John Rocque's 1758 map shortly prior to its destruction in 1763. One Gothic arch of the Cantwell bridge spans the millrace (KK019-026077-) on the E bank of the River Nore. An archaeological excavation of part of the remainder of the bridge was carried out as part of the Kilkenny Flood Relief scheme (Stevens 2002, unpublished; 2003, 211-2). Five surviving sections of the collapsed bridge, including two piers, two sections of collapsed masonry and a bridge abutment, were revealed in excavations (01E0326) by Paul Stevens for the Kilkenny Flood Relief Scheme (Stevens 2002). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 12 November 2020

• KK019-026041 Weir - regulating
  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.

• KK019-026042 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  In the N portion of Kilkenny City, on the E bank of the River Nore, c. 50m N of the present Green’s Bridge but originally, as illustrated on Rocque’s 1758 map, immediately S of the former medieval bridge (KK019-026040-). The Civil Survey (1654-6) describing corn mills in Kilkenny lists, ‘The other standing upon Grenes Bridge’ and names ‘Bishop of Ossorie and others’ as the tenant ‘when ye Towne was Taken’, in 1650 (Simington (ed.) 1942, vol. 6, 549). According to Doyle (1985, 150), ‘One arch of the old Greens Bridge, which was destroyed in the great flood of 1764, still stands. This arch spans the upper mill stream. In 1758 there was a mill beside this arch. Today nothing remains of it except some stone facing in the side of the mill stream which would suggest that a vertical mill wheel once turned there. This old mill might have been the original mill of St. John’s priory (KK019-026066-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 October 2020

• KK019-026164 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  17th-century mill complex and deflection dam on the former 'Mill Island' on the E bank of the River Nore, 70m SE of Green’s Bridge (NIAH 12004007) excavated by Paul Stevens and Brenda O'Meara (01E0608) in advance of the Kilkenny Flood Relief Scheme (Stevens and O’Meara 2003, unpublished; 2004, 279-80). The mill is probably that referred to as a ‘Corn Mill’ with stone walls and slate roof in the 1654 Civil Survey and is depicted on John Rocque's 1758 map of Kilkenny (Simington 1934, vol. 6, 549). A weir (KK019-026041-) that extends to the N of Mill Island was built between 1797-1841 (Stevens and O’Meara 2003, 25). It deflected the flow of the river into millstreams that served both the Mill Island complex and the Chancellor’s Mills (KK019-026124-) on the opposite/W bank of the river. The Mill Island mill building complex was largely demolished in the 1980s (Bradley 2000, 17). A stone-lined wheel pit for the primary mill building was added to in the 17th century by a machine room (L 4.85m x Wth 3.6m) along with a masonry and timber half-weir, or ‘deflection dam’, to the N (L > 26m). A series of radiocarbon dates obtained on wattle panels from this dam overlap at between AD 1670-1680 (Stevens and O’Meara 2003, 14). Excavations also documented a succession of post-medieval building phases. The mill complex and Mill Island were fully excavated for the Kilkenny Flood Relief Scheme. The millrace for the mill is on the E bank of the River Nore, Kilkenny City depicted on the 1758 John Rocque map of Kilkenny and the 1st ed. (1839-40) OS map as running (L 1.77 km) from an inlet on the E bank of the River Nore at Friar's Inch to the Maudlin Mills (KK019-026076-) at the S end of Maudlin Street. The millrace is mentioned in the c.1211 William Marshal charter to the Augustinian priory of St John's (KK019-026018-) (McNeill 1931, 63). Much of the N section of the millrace is still visible but most of the town section has been culverted and, in places it has been, infilled. The millrace forms the SW boundary of the precinct of the Augustinian priory of St John the Evangelist (KK019-026018-). It was spanned by the former medieval Green's Bridge (KK019-026040-) built before 1526 and is incorporated into its 18th-century successor (NIAH 12004007). At John Street Lower it is spanned by the medieval ‘Little Bridge’ (KK019-026071-) (Bradley 2000, 21). Excavations by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (17E0341) 25m N of Greens Bridge included a section across the millrace (Int. Wth 3.6m x D 1.2m) indicating it was revetted by stone walls (Ó Drisceoil 2017, unpublished). Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 12 November 2020

• KK019-139 Burial
  Description

  Burials were uncovered during the construction of a new underground services duct beneath the existing road surface of Bleach Road (Flynn 2019, Archaeological Licence 16E0190). There is a field immediately W of the road which drops sharply down to a flood meadow along the E bank of the River Nore (ibid.). The river is c. 150 SW of the burials at it nearest point. Below the W side of the road (D 0.3m), a disturbed E-W orientated inhumation and an amount of disarticulated human skeletal remains were recovered (ibid.). Indications suggest that the assemblage includes several individuals (ibid.). The road also forms the boundary between two townlands and it is probable that the burials extend eastward into Dunmore townland and westward into Friarsinch townland. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 December 2019

Architectural heritage

• Green's Bridge, bridge, 1760–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Five-arch bridge over river, designed 1763; built 1764-6. Repaired, 1835. Remodelled, 1969, producing present composition. Part ivy-covered walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers having pedimented aedicule-topped stepped capping with cut-limestone beaded stringcourse on ogee consoles supporting parapet having cut-limestone coping. Series of five elliptical arches with cut-limestone blocked archivolts. Sited spanning River Nore with unkempt banks to river.

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 10 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; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2183 (ZIP).

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 Friarsinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Friarsinch · Inse na mBráthar

Area

182,121 m² (18.21 ha, 45 acres)

Civil parish

St. Canice, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkenny Rural electoral division: 18,603 people in 6,480 households; 64% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bishopsmeadows, Bleach Green, Dunmore, Gardens, Gardens, Gardens, Glendine, Newpark Lower, Talbotsinch

Placenames

Friarsinch 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.