Goslingstown

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goslingstown, from 59 m² to 310,159 m² (31.02 ha, 76.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Goslingstown 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.

• 26 Jan 2025Conditional

  for the erection of a family dwelling. The development will consist of the erection of a family dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, borehole, soak-pits, and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560033

• 30 Jan 2024Refused

  for development. The development will consist of the construction of a two-storey dwelling with dormer windows to facilitate attic level accommodation and a detached single-storey domestic garage. Other works as part of the development include on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area; soakaway; reinstated vehicular entrance with piers and gates; upgraded driveway; landscaping; boundary treatment; and all associated works to facilitate the development. Castle Bamford (a protected structure – Ref. C329, and National Monument – Ref No. KK019-039001 & KK019-039003) is within the site curtilage,

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460037

• 18 Jan 2024N/a

  to erect a two storey dwelling with part dormer attic at third floor, with ancillary domestic garage/store, new reinstated vehicular entrance with piers and gates and upgraded driveway and all associated landscaping and site development works. The application site adjoins Castle Bamford which is a National Monument (Ref No. KK019-039001)

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460022

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

  to retain existing extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house and to retain existing detached garage and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360490

• 14 Oct 2022Conditional

  for a single storey extension to the side/rear of dwelling and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22672

• 19 Jul 2022Conditional

  on the grant of Outline Permission Reference 21/622 for dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22475

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  is sought for a single storey extension to the front of the residence comprising a bay window and entrance revision including roof window and elevational alterations with all ancillary and associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21844

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  for dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, borewell, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21622

• 1 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage/ store with septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19539

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 Goslingstown.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-039001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher indicates a building, consisting of a tower and a house (KK019-039003-), in the centre of ‘Goshinstowne’ townland (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). This equates well with the modern townland of Goslingstown and to the location of Castle Bamford in particular. Castle Bamford house is now ruinous. When inspected in 1993 it was found to be a multi-period building containing the fabric of a medieval castle (O’Dwyer, OPW unpublished report, 7 January 1993). O’Dwyer notes that,’in the 1600s Castle Bamford, formerly in the ownership of Thomas See, Irish Papist, was granted to the Duke of York, brother of the king and future King James II [see Calendar of State Paters 1666-69, printed in London in 1908, p. 525] and Books of Survey and Distribution for Co. Kilkenny. As far as I can establish the property was in the hands of the de Valles (or Walls) from Norman times and passed to the Comerfords by marriage c. 1560. I suspect it began as a tower enlarged as a house in the late 16th or early 17th centuries and Georganised c. 1750’ (ibid.). Hogan (1860-1, 374) relates that Bamford was formerly called Banfield and that, 'A castle formerly stood in Banfield, and part of it is modernized into the south wing of the present commodious dwelling-house, as may be observed in the depth of the window jambs and the massiveness of the masonry. Hence this place is best known at the present day as "Castle Bamford"'. Castle Bamford survives as a roofless ruin. See attached: KK019-039001-_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 October 2002

• KK019-039003 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  The Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher indicates a building, consisting of a tower (KK019-039001-) and a house, in the centre of ‘Goshinstowne’ townland (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). This equates well with the modern townland of Goslingstown and to the location of Castle Bamford in particular. Castle Bamford house is now ruinous. When inspected in 1993 it was found to be a multi-period building containing the fabric of a medieval castle (O’Dwyer, OPW unpublished report, 7 January 1993). O’Dwyer notes that,’in the 1600s Castle Bamford, formerly in the ownership of Thomas See, Irish Papist, was granted to the Duke of York, brother of the king and future King James II [see Calendar of State Paters 1666-69, printed in London in 1908, p. 525] and Books of Survey and Distribution for Co. Kilkenny. As far as I can establish the property was in the hands of the de Valles (or Walls) from Norman times and passed to the Comerfords by marriage c. 1560. I suspect it began as a tower enlarged as a house in the late 16th or early 17th centuries and Georganised c. 1750’ (ibid.). Castle Bamford survives as a roofless ruin. See attached: KK019-039003-_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 October 2002

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2169 (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 Goslingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Goslingstown · Baile an Ghuaislínigh

Area

1,262,291 m² (126.23 ha, 311.92 acres)

Civil parish

Castleinch Or Inchyolaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grange electoral division: 903 people in 285 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Archersleas, Ballynalina, Birchfield, Derdimus, Donaghmore, Glebe, Parkmore, Raheenapisha, Reviewfields, Shellumsrath

Placenames

Goslingstown 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.