Hillend
Hillend is a townland in the civil parish of Killahy (Urlingford Ra), barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na gCapall.
- Area
- 56.4 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 92,194 m² (9.22 ha, 22.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hillend, from 4,105 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) to 376,568 m² (37.66 ha, 93.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Hillend 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Jun 2023Conditional
for an amendment to planning application previously granted under reference PL/21/627 in the townlands of Killeen, Rathmacan, Gortnagap Kyleballyoughter, Courtstown, Raheen, Lates, Curraghscarteen, Canvarstown, Trenchardstown, Lisnalea, Hillend, Coldharbour, Killahy, Greenhill, Lughinny, Craddockstown, Tubbrid Lower, Clomantagh Lower, Barna, Newtown, Kilrush, Belville, Lodge, Garranamanagh, Balleen Lower, Lodge, Tifeaghna (Browne), Lodge Demesne West, Lodge Demesne East, Clontubbrid, Clone, Acragar, Skinstown, Lisdowney, Seskin South, Parksgrove Ballyragget & Moatpark, Co Kilkenny. The previously consented planning application comprised the installation of 31.4 km of a 38kV underground grid connection comprising cable ducting and associated electrical cabling and all other ancillary works including joint bays, culverts, maker posts and all associated development. The proposed amendments to the previously consented grid connection comprise: • Increase in number of joint bays along the extent of the grid connection from a total of 35 to 45 joint bays • Grid connection to be operated at 38kV but installed to a 110kV underground cable design standards/infrastructure • Minor Adjustments to the route and red line boundary
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360248
1 Jun 2023N/a
- An amendment planning application for a planning application granted under reference PL/21/627 in the townlands of Killeen, Rathmacan, Gortnagap Kyleballyoughter, Courtstown, Raheen, Lates, Curraghscarteen, Canvarstown, Trenchardstown, Lisnalea, Hillend, Coldharbour, Killahy, Greenhill, Lughinny, Craddockstown, Tubbrid Lower, Clomantagh Lower, Barna, Newtown, Kilrush, Belville, Lodge, Garranamanagh, Balleen Lower, Lodge, Tifeaghna (Browne), Lodge Demesne West, Lodge Demesne East, Clontubbrid, Clone, Acragar, Skinstown, Lisdowney, Seskin South, Parksgrove Ballyragget & Moatpark, Co Kilkenny. The previously consented planning application comprised the installation of 31.4 km of a 38kV underground grid connection comprising cable ducting and associated electrical cabling and all other ancillary works including joint bays, culverts, maker posts and all associated development. The proposed amendments to the previously consented grid connection comprise: • Increase in number of joint bays along the extent of the grid connection from a total of 35 to 45 joint bays • Grid connection to be operated at 38kV but installed to a 110kV underground cable design standards/infrastructure • Minor Adjustments to the route and red line boundary
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360232
22 Jul 2021Conditional
for a ten-year appropriate period planning permission for development of this site; the proposed development will constitute the provision of the following: The installation of 31.49km of a 38kV underground electrical cabling and all other ancillary works including joint bays, culverts, maker posts and all associated development in the townlands of Killeen, Rathmacan, Gortnagap, Kyleballyoughter, Courtstown, Raheen, Lates, Curraghscarteen, Canvarstown, Trenchardstown, Lisnalea, Hillend, Coldharbour, Killahy, Greenhill, Lughinny, Craddockstown, Tubbrid Lower, Clomantagh Lower, Barna, Newtown, Kilrush, Belville, Lodge, Garranamanagh, Balleen Lower, Lodge, Tifeaghna (Browne), Lodge Demesne West, Lodge Demesne East, Clontubbrid, Clone, Acragar, Skinstown, Lisdowney, Seskin South, Parksgrove Ballyragget & Moatpark, Co. Kilkenny. Advisory Note: The full extent of the grid connection is 33.8km, and a separate planning application will be made for an underground grid connection to Tipperary County Council. The development comprises part of an overall development for which planning permission was granted for a 9 turbine wind farm and all associated works on lands located in the townlands of Farranroy Upper, Farranroy Lower, Coolnashinnagh & Gortnasmuttaun, Co. Tipperary. The planning application will be accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21627
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Hillend.
Recorded monuments
- KK013-071 Enclosure
Description
On the NE side of a small NW-SE valley, at the junction of the valley floor and the gently rising lower slopes, in reclaimed grassland. Views are confined to within the valley. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1900 revision, it is depicted on the 25-inch OS map as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 31m N-S; c. 22m E-W). The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2010
- KK013-072001 Enclosure
Description
On the steep and irregular SW slopes of a small NW-SE valley. Identified as upstanding enclosures on an aerial photograph (GSI S454; 1:30,000). A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 30m x 30m) adjoining a larger curvilinear field boundary (KK013-072002-). The enclosure and field boundary are not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or on the 1900 revision and are possibly part of a relic field system. The field has been reclaimed and the enclosure and field boundary have been levelled, as is visible on satellite imagery (OS Ortho and Digitalglobe, viewed 25 March 2020). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2020
- KK013-072002 Field system
Description
On the steep and irregular SW slopes of a small NW-SE valley. Identified as upstanding enclosures on an aerial photograph (GSI S454; 1:30,000). A roughly square enclosure (KK013-072001-) adjoining a larger curvilinear field boundary (L c. 100m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE). The enclosure and field boundary are not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or on the 1900 revision and are possibly part of a relic field system. The field has been reclaimed and the enclosure and field boundary have been levelled, as is visible on satellite imagery (OS Ortho and Digitalglobe, viewed 25 March 2020). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hillend.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Hillend, about 1 in 5 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 Hillend.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Hillend with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Hillend · Cnoc na gCapall
- Area
- 564,162 m² (56.42 ha, 139.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killahy (Urlingford Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Crannagh
- Electoral division
- Tubbridbrittain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 307 people lived in 101 households in the Tubbridbrittain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coldharbour, Greenhill, Killahy, Lisnalea, Newengland, Trenchardstown
- Placenames
- Hillend 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.