Kill
Kill is a townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Fassadinin, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Coill Bhuaile na Sceachánach.
- Area
- 133.7 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 30,430 m² (3.04 ha, 7.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill, from 1,085 m² to 523,164 m² (52.32 ha, 129.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Kill 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
17 Sept 2021Conditional
to construct new dwelling, install new septic tank with percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21783
9 Jul 2019Conditional
for the following (a) Erection of a new two storey dwelling house and detached garage (b) Installation of waste treatment system and polishing filter (c) New entrance and driveway from public road (d) and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19469
26 Jun 2019N/a
for (a) Erection of new two storey dwelling house and detached garage (b) Installation of Waste Treatment System and polishing filter (c) New entrance and driveway from public road (d) all ancillary siteworks
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19451
24 Sept 2018N/a
for the following (a) Erection of new dwelling house (b) Erection of detached garage (c) Installation of Waste Treatment System (d) New entrance and driveway from public road (e) Associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18631
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kill.
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 Kill, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kill.
- 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 Kill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Kill · Coill Bhuaile na Sceachánach
- Area
- 1,337,191 m² (133.72 ha, 330.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathaspick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fassadinin
- Electoral division
- Clogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,288 people lived in 471 households in the Clogh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughatubbrid or Chatsworth, Clogh, Doonane (Co. Laois), Slatt Upper (Co. Laois), Toortane
- Placenames
- Kill 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.