Jamesgreen

172 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jamesgreen, from 14 m² to 5,239 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 170 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 1 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 · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 Feb 2025Conditional

  for development consisting of demolition of an existing 2 storey rear extension and the construction of a new 2 storey rear extension containing a kitchen/living/dining area at ground floor and a reinstated bedroom to first floor and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560085

• 13 Jan 2025Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to the existing dressing rooms to include 2 new dressing rooms with associated stores, accessible WC and plant room at ground floor (area 117 m2) and new club room at first floor (area 34 m2) and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560012

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the indefinite retention for a single storey studio extension. Full Planning Permission for the change of use of offices on the ground floor only and the studio retained to a single bed apartment. This is a partial reverse (ground floor only) to planning ref P80/00 which was for the change of use of dwelling house to offices

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460641

• 18 Dec 2024N/a

  for the construction of an extension to the existing dressing rooms to include 2 new dressing rooms with associated stores, accessible WC and plant room at ground floor (area 117 m2) and new club room at first floor (area 34 m2) and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460647

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  for 1) Demolition of the existing rear extension to the dwelling and detached shed/storage to the back, 2) Erect a new two storey rear extension to the dwelling, 3) Create new vehicular access and erect shed in private open space, 4) Associated internal and external modifications, 5) All associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460394

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  for (1) a change of use of the existing cinema to retail use (2) internal & external alterations (3) new external signage and (4) all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460309

• 3 Apr 2024N/a

  for the construction of 23 no. dwelling units consisting of; 5 no. 3 bedroom terraced houses, a two-storey duplex block consisting of; 2no. one bedrooms units and 2no. two bedroom units, a four-storey duplex and apartment building consisting of; 2no. one bedroom apartments 4 no. two bedroom apartments, 6 no. three bedroom two-storey duplex units, 2 no. four bedroom two-storey duplex units, along with undercroft parking at lower ground level accessed off of Blackmill St.; the demolition of the existing Black Cat public house and associated outbuildings, demolition of the existing forecourt structure and associated shop, removal of existing services, surface parking spaces, internal roads and footpaths, stepped pedestrian access through to Dominic Street, surface level carparking, cycle parking, refuse storage, public lighting, landscaping and public realm upgrade works, and all associated site works

  Permission, 23 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 2460158

• 23 Dec 2023Conditional

  fOR 1. CONSTRUCT A COMBINED SINGLE & 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE & REAR OF DWELLING 2. CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO FRONT OF DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360613

• 8 Dec 2021Conditional

  for (i) the extension and modifications of existing dressing rooms to create new dressing rooms, machinery store, generator room and ancillary accommodation including club room, (ii) upgrade of existing playing pitch to Astroturf surface with associated drainage and (iii) new floodlighting system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 211004

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  to erect a new two storey 3 Bedroom house, to provide new entrance gates to existing house, for part demolition of existing shed, for minor alterations to existing dropped entrance to existing site, for connection to all services together with all associated site works all located on my property

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21218

• 5 Mar 2021N/a

  of an extension to the garage at the rear of property

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21152

• 12 Feb 2021N/a

  Retention of an extension to the garage at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2174

• 21 Oct 2020Conditional

  for the following. Change of use from vacant shop unit to residential unit

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20705

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  for demolition of an existing single storey extension to rear of our existing dwelling, alterations to existing structure and construction of a new two storey extension to the rear of our existing dwelling, plus all associated site works. No 23 Black Mill Street, Kilkenny is located within the St. Mary's architectural conservation area

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20666

• 12 Nov 2018Conditional

  for development at this site. The development will consist / consists of: the construction of a partially walled shed attached to the front of the existing garage building at the area of 20sqm.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18747

• 12 Oct 2018Conditional

  for development at this site. The development will consist of; demolition of original house; construction of an infill residential development comprising of 6 No. residential units arranged over 3 levels; on site parking; provision of refuse storage; provision of foul and surface water connections; site landscaping and all associated site works. All at this site situated at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18679

• 25 Sept 2018Refused

  for change of use from domestic garage to residence, addition of a first floor with an open terrace facing fair green and alterations to façade including new windows and doors at Haughney Green at rear of

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18636

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  for demolition of existing bathroom extension, construction of new single storey flat-roofed extension and entrance off laneway at rear of house and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18517

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 Jamesgreen.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-025001 Church
  Description

  On the N side of Walkin St, at the SW edge of a triangular green, within an almost square graveyard (KK019-026002-). According to Hogan (1883, vol. 3, 15, 23-4), St Rock's or Rioc's parish church was here before the foundation of the walled town of Kilkenny, but fell into disuse. Only the graveyard is mentioned in an Inquisition of 1623 and in 1633 Edmond Grace paid the Corporation 6 shillings for a garden at the corner of "St. Roch's churchyard" (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 192-3). Any trace of the church at ground level had disappeared by the 19th century, however, a number of the headstones appear to be reused architectural fragments, probably from the church (Farrelly et al. 1993, 105). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 September 2020

• KK019-025002 Graveyard
  Description

  On the N side of Walkin St, at the SW edge of a triangular green, within an almost square graveyard (dims. c. 30m NE-SW x c. 28m NW-SE). According to Hogan (1883, vol. 3, 15, 23-4), St Rock's or Rioc's parish church (KK019-025001-) was here before the foundation of the walled town of Kilkenny, but fell into disuse. The graveyard is mentioned in an Inquisition of 1623 and in 1633 Edmond Grace paid the Corporation 6 shillings for a garden at the corner of "St. Roch's churchyard" (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 192-3). Carrigan (ibid.) notes that, 'Portion of the graveyard was enclosed by the present substantial wall, in 1828, as appears from the following inscription on one of the piers of the entrance gate: St. Rock's, 1828. Built by Public Subscription'. The graveyard appears to have extended further southward beneath the public road. This is evidenced by Hogan (1858-9, 471-2) who mentions a row of houses, demolished in the early 19th century, which stood along the S edge of the graveyard, and had manure pits in front of them, on the line of the present road, which had skeletal material projecting from the sides of the pits. A patron to St Rioc was held here on the first Sunday in August until 1830 when it was discontinued by the Bishop of Ossory (Hogan 1883, vol. 3, 24; O'Carroll 1974, 57). Any trace of the church at ground level had disappeared by the 19th century. There is a sculpture to the Trinity (KK019-025005-) within the graveyard. Carrigan (ibid.) notes that the oldest tombstone dates from 1757, however, a number of the headstones appear to be reused architectural fragments, probably from the church (Farrelly et al. 1993, 105). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 September 2020

• KK019-025003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  S of Gaol Road and N of St Rioc's graveyard (KK019-025002-). According to Hogan (1883, 14-15) St. Rock's Well is a spring well, 'so named from its proximity to St. Rock's Church, near the Fair Green, formerly sprung up in the centre of walkin's Green'. The well was within a wet marshy turlough called Walkin's Lough which is depicted on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map. The well appears to have disappeared from view by the 19th century, however, Hogan (1858-9, 472-3) relates how in the summer of 1812 the well was revealed during digging in the turlough for manure, 'a range of stones rudely placed so as to form so many steps' were found which led, 'to an enclosure of irregularly shaped stones'. The well was subsequently covered again by the waters of the lough (ibid.). According to Hogan (1883, 14-15) the lake was drained in 1830 (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 September 2020

• KK019-025004 Hermitage
  Description

  There is a tradition that St Rioc, also known as Rioch or Rock, lived here as a hermit in the 5th century and that his followers founded a church at this location (O'Carroll 1974, 57). The precise location of this hermitage is unknown within the general area of St Rioc's church (KK019-025001-), graveyard (KK019-025002-) and holy well (KK019-025003-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 September 2020

• KK019-025005 Stone sculpture
  Description

  In St Rioc’s graveyard (KK019-025002-), Kilkenny City there is a limestone figure sculpture representing the Trinity, consisting of the seated figure of God the Father, seated with the right hand raised, probably in the gesture of benediction, though the fingers are broken off, and the left hand under and supporting the sinister arm of the cross. God the Son is carved on the cross which is between the knees of the Father and the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, is carved above the arms of the cross. The top of the sculpture, including the head of God the Father, is missing, with the break running from the top sinister side to just above the arm of the cross on the dexter side. It is possible that this is the Trinity sculpture which was illustrated in c. 1812 by George Millar and located to St Patrick’s graveyard (KK019-026172-), which lies c. 900m to the ESE, but which has not been found there (Roe 1979, 128, 145-6). The sculpture is similar to the limestone Trinity (KK026-010032-) in Callan, Co. Kilkenny which has been dated to the first half of the 16th century (Roe 1979, 110). A 15th-century alabaster sculpture of the Trinity has also been found in the Black Abbey church of the Dominican friary (KK019-026021-), c. 600m to the N (Roe 1972, 33-6; Hunt and Harbison 1976, 310-21). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 September 2020

• KK019-025006 Architectural fragment
  Description

  On the N side of Walkin St, at the SW edge of a triangular green, within St Rioc's graveyard (KK019-026002-). A number of the headstones appear to be reused architectural fragments, probably from the church of St Rioc (KK019-025002-) of which there is no visible trace at ground level (Farrelly et al. 1993, 105). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 September 2020

• KK019-026065 Church
  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.

• KK019-026184 Burial ground
  Description

  Human burials probably representing the former graveyard of the extra-mural suburban church dedicated to St James (KK019-026065-) uncovered in archaeological monitoring (12E0158) by Patrick Neary at St James's Green (NIAH 12005004) (Neary 2012, https://excavations.ie/report/2012/Kilkenny/0023397/ and unpublished report). St James's Green was constructed in its present guise in the early 20th century and is situated 200m outside (W of) the Hightown town wall and on the reputed site of St James's chapel, which served the suburb of the same name and was demolished in the mid-14th century by the then bishop of Ossory, Richard Ledrede (Farrelly et al. 1993, 52). Monitoring of a service trench brought to light the skeletal remains of five individuals in the centre of the Green (Neary 2012). Intercutting of burials and disarticulated bone were suggestive of a much more extensive densely-packed cemetery. The burials were dated by the excavator to the 14th century on the basis of Highhays Ware pottery in the grave-fills. Most of the exposed remains were preserved in situ. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• KK019-026218 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Medieval road to Thomastown, which passed through the Castle Gate in the town wall (KK019-026001-) and the barbican (KK019-026078-) of the outer ward defences of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-) identified in a 2010 geophysical survey (Gimson 2010, unpublished; Ó Drisceoil 2020, unpublished). Prior to the construction of the present Castle Road around 1769, the 'Common Road' to the castle ran c. 40m NE of its present line, as depicted on Francis Place's 1699 view of the castle from the E, John Rocque's 1758 map and the Richard Steele map of 1767, which is largely a trace of Rocque (Watters 1872, 57; Bradley 2000, 10). In 1435 James, Earl of Ormond granted to William Boyd of Kilkenny all his land 'between the wall of the Earl’s garden and the common road by which you go from said William’s messuage to the Earl’s castle' (Curtis 1932 vol. 3, no. 124). Both Francis Place and Rocque depict it as a tree lined avenue leading up to the Inner Ward and the 2010 geophysical survey identified part of its line running west towards the possible outer gatehouse (Gimson 2010). Sometime around the mid-19th century paving associated with the road was noted, according to Watters: ‘The old paved line of road, I understand, was found some years since, while trenching the lawn to the South of the castle’ and a section of the road's metalling was also noted in archaeological monitoring by Ben Murtagh in 2000 (Watters 1872, 57; Murtagh 2000, 146-7). In 1769 Walter Butler was granted permission to construct the present Castle Road because the old road was 'much out of repair': ‘Whereas so much of the old high Road leading from the City of Kilkenny to Thomastown, in the county of Kilkenny, as extends from the old Castle Gate to the road leading to the Stone Mills, now occupied by Henry Scott, miller, is at present much out of repair; and whereas the said high Road may be considerably shortened by running the same through the Castle Garden, within the Liberties of this City, and Walter Butler hath accordingly proposed to make a new Road from the Town Wall, adjoining the old Castle Gate of this City, through the sd Castle Garden, to the old Lime Kiln on the said Road, of the width of Forty feet at the least, and containing in length sixty Perches, at his own proper costs and charges; and whereas the said new Road, when completed, will be much more commodious to the Public, we therefore present that the said Walter Butler have liberty to make the said new road accordingly at his own expense’ (Watters 1872, 56-7). In order to make way for the new road the Castle Gate on the town wall was demolished in 1769 (Bradley 2000, 14). In the 2010 geophysical survey the medieval road to Thomastown was identified as an E-W linear anomaly (dims. L 60m x Wth 2m) corresponding to the location of the road as depicted on the 1758 map of Kilkenny by John Rocque. A possible 17th century fortification (KK019-026220-) is on the N side of the road outside the castle moat. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 11 November 2020

• KK019-100001 House - 17th century
  Description

  In Kilkenny City, at the junction of Parnell Street, formerly Flood Street, and Friary Street, formerly Watkins Street, facing New Street. Hogan (1858-9), describes a house on the W side of Flood Street, between it and a small passage into gardens, visible of Rocque's map of 1758. The house, 'is said by the old inhabitants of the neighbourhood to be the oldest house in Kilkenny...From the projection of the chimneys through the gable walls, as well as from the general style of the masonry, the house would appear older than those of the Elizabethan period; and from the depth of the floor under the present level of the street, it must have been built in part of the valley which formed the basin of the lough, and at a time when the bed of this basin was much lower than it was when the waters were carried off, by means of a sewer, to the river' (ibid.). According to O'Carroll (1983, 40), this house was built by Thomas St. Ledger towards the end of the 16th century and, 'The remains of the old building can still be seen behind the garage and on the corner of Friary Street and Parnell Street'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 October 2020

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1910–1922 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, between 1910-22, with raised "GR" royal cipher. Set in unpainted roughcast boundary wall.

• Park, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Public park, c.1925, on site of bull ring, 1712, with sections of iron railings to perimeter of site on unpainted rendered, ruled and lined plinth having cast-iron colonette piers with moulding capping, and iron gate. (ii) Freestanding statue, erected 1954, comprising inscribed limestone ashlar tapered plinth on stepped base with cut-limestone capping supporting carved statue.

• Cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing, 1915–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of cut-limestone kerbing, c.1925.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier gateway, 1808, comprising pair of tooled cut-limestone piers with cut-stone plaque, cut-stone capping, and cast-iron double gates having foliate finials. Possibly reassembled on site, post-1948. Road fronted.

• Kilkenny Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1940–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay two-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1942; dated 1942, on a U-shaped plan; six-bay two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with ridge tiles, red brick English Garden Wall bond chimney stacks having ogee-detailed capping supporting terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods in ogee-detailed cornice with embossed cast-iron hoppers ("1942") and downpipes. Red brick Running bond walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with margined tooled cut-limestone step, cut-limestone lugged doorcase overlaid on channelled pilasters on plinths supporting ogee-detailed hood moulding on panelled frieze framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick soldier voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of street with red brick English bond piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting wrought iron gate.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1900, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site. Reroofed. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with painted rendered stringcourse to first floor. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built 1904, with box bay window to left ground floor. Reroofed. One of a group of four. Pitched (shared) roof (hipped to bay window) with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered strip to end. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to box bay window) with painted sills, rendered surrounds, and one-over-one timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights to tripartite opening. Square-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from line of road with unpainted rendered plinth supporting decorative iron railings, and iron gate.

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey double-pile house, c.1825. Refenestrated, c.1925. Extensively renovated, c.1975. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted replacement rendered walls, c.1975, with inscribed plaque to centre first floor. Square-headed window openings (one in tripartite arrangement) with cut-stone sills, replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1925, having one-over-one sidelights to tripartite opening, and replacement fixed-pane (two-light) timber windows, c.1975, to ground floor. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2184 (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 Jamesgreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Jamesgreen · Faiche Shan Séamas

Area

133,834 m² (13.38 ha, 33.07 acres)

Civil parish

St. Canice, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Kilkenny No. 1 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkenny No. 1 Urban electoral division: 5,650 people in 2,291 households; 46% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gardens, Gardens, Lyons, Walkinslough

Placenames

Jamesgreen 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.