# Greenridge, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of St. John's, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish An tIomaire Glas. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 574,845 m² (57.48 ha, 142.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: St. John's, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/st-johns.md - Barony: Gowran - Electoral division: Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 18,603 people lived in 6,480 households in the Kilkenny Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% 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/26914 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 90872 - Centre: latitude 52.675727, longitude -7.203638 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenridge; 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Greenridge 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 30 Jan 2024, Kilkenny County Council 2410: Conditional. Permission. for a new agricultural entrance from the public road, extension of existing slatted cubicle shed to include cow cubicles, underground slatted slurry storage, robotic milking machines with clean area, dairy plant room, farm office and straw bedded area, relocation of milk bulk tank, clean water tank, meal bin, erection of new wall to existing silage pit, animal handling and drafting area, concrete yards, clean hardcore yards, farm road and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2410/0 - 29 Sept 2022, Kilkenny County Council 22644: Conditional. Permission. for a Solar Farm and Storage Park consisting of linear arrays of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels mounted on steel supported structures with associated cabling and ducting (including underground cable connection to the proposed on-site 110kV substation); 50 no. inverter substations, a storage park (including 55 no. containers with cells and 15 no. containers with PCS and inverters); perimeter fencing; 6 no. palisade double security gates; 3 no. temporary construction compound/material storage area; 2 no. steel storage containers; 25 no. turning bays, on-site pole mounted CCTV cameras (at 60 locations); and 2 no. temporary construction stage Moby Dick type wheel wash systems (with over ground settlement tank); and all associated ancillary development services and works, all to be provided within an application boundary of 112ha. Permission is sought for the proposed Solar Farm and Storage Park for a period of 10 years with an operational period of 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for this development and submitted as part of the planning application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22644/0 - 16 Sept 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19659: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to change the proposed house type permitted under planning ref. 16/466. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19659/0 - 4 Sept 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19631: N/a. Permission. to change the proposed house type permitted under planning reference 16/466. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19631/0 - 5 Mar 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19129: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for construction of two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19129/0 - 20 Apr 2017, Kilkenny County Council 17251: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect a new two storey private residence, new combined access from existing roadway, new treatment plant and associated site works all located on lands. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17251/0 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 Greenridge. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KK015-023001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK015-023001-. In rolling reclaimed grassland. Identified as a roughly circular cropmark (diam. c. 50m) on an aerial photograph (GSI S 447, 1973-7). This possible enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 March 2016 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 Greenridge. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Greenridge, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2191, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2191.zip (ZIP). - 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/greenridge.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/greenridge.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/greenridge.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Greenridge 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) - Archersrath: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/archersrath.md - Brownstown: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/brownstown-90386.md - Cellarstown West: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/cellarstown-west.md - Sandfordscourt: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/sandfordscourt.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. --- 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/greenridge - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/greenridge