Maddockstown

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maddockstown, from 40 m² to 298,022 m² (29.8 ha, 73.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Maddockstown 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.

• 18 Dec 2024Refused

  for an existing Inert soils and stone storage and screening site with all ancillary site works including Retention Permission for 7 no. Concrete Storage Bays, a Steel container and a soil screening structure. Full planning permission also sought for the erection of a Staff Welfare unit, parking areas, 3 No. Metal Skips and a wastewater tank

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460648

• 25 Apr 2023Refused

  of an existing inert soils and stone storage and screening site with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 23102

• 22 Jul 2022Conditional

  the development will consist/consists of: Laying of underground 38kV medium voltage electrical cables with associated ducting, 7 no. joint bays, with associated communication chambers and ancillary development within the R172, L2646, L2631, L67062 and L2633 public roads and private lands South of the R172. The cable will run for a distance of 5,710m. Approximately 4890 metres of this will be within the public road and approximately 820 metres of cabling will be on private lands located South of the R172 and on lands of the permitted Clashwilliam Solar Farm. The cable will transverse under the Irish Rail Railway within the townland of Highrath and the M9 motorway in the townland of Roughfield through trenchless Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) methods. The underground cable is intended to connect the permitted 38kV substation in Clashwilliam Solar Farm, in Smithstown townland, with the Kilkenny 110kV ESB substation, in Scart townland. The solar farm and 38kV substation were granted permission by Kilkenny County Council pursuant to Planning Registration Reference 20897). Permission is sought for a period of 10 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this Application.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22487

• 26 Mar 2020Conditional

  for a change of house design from previously granted Permission (P05/60) and to construct a two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage and site waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20197

• 30 Aug 2018Conditional

  for develop at existing Grt Isl-Kk 110kV Overhead Line, approx 49kms long.Approx 46.4km of existing circuit located within functional area of CoKk with approx 2.6km located within CoWex.The uprate works within CoKk will be undertaken betwn structure INT16 in townland of Drumdowney Upr,near admin border betwn Co's Wx&Kk and structure EM258 in twnland of Scart(ED Dunbell),east of KkCity.Within Co Kk existing circuit extends across twnlands of Drumdowney Upr,Murtaghstown,Luffany, Rathpatrick,Treanaree,Carriganurra,Nicholastown,Atateemore orBlackneys,Ballincrea, Fahy,Rathnasmolagh,Knockbrack,Ballinlammy,Haggard, BallyfasyLwr&Upr, Ballywairy, Darbystown,Ballallog,Listerlin,Brabstown,Ballyconnaught,Ballykenna,Garrandarragh, Ballyvool,Firgrove,Bohilla,Ballycocksoost,Coolsillagh,Kilmacshane,Kilcullen,Ruppa, Mungmacody,Cloghscregg,Castlegarden,Kilmanaheen,Dungarvan(EDBennettsbridge), Dungarvan Glebe,Cloghala(EDBennettsbridge),Ballynaboley,Smithstown(EDDunbell), Clashwilliam Td(EDDunbell),Blanchvillestown,Grove(EDDunbell),Roughfield,Rathcash, Rathgarvan orClifden,Maddockstown,Ballynamona,Highrath &Scart(EDDunbell). Uprate of existing circuit within CoWx will be undertaken within twnland of Grt Isl, between structure EM1 at Grt Isl Substn&structure INT15 near admin border between Co's Wx&Kk. Developm will consist of uprate of Grt Isl-Kk 110kv Overhead Line which will primarily include:re-stringing conductor withhigher capacity conductor,replacement of large proportion of existing structures,breaking out & reconstruction of concrete foundation & shear blocks of metal masts, painting of mast structures, replacement of insulators, crossarms, stays and/or fittings on existing structures &fitting/replacement of bird flight diverters.No additional structures proposed along existing circuit.Any replacement structures will be constructed at,or immediately adjacent to existing structures they will replace&will be of generally similar height & appearance. Assoc temp sitedevelop works to gain access to existing structures incl clearance of vegetation, disassembly & reassembly of stone walls&gate posts&removal & reinstatement of exist fencing.The prop dev includes all other temp assoc&ancillary site dev works reqd for uprate of exist circuit,incl install of silt traps,silt fences, stone rds, bogmats & clearspan bridges.No additional struct, no alteration to nature,extent, alignment, character or voltage of exist elect infrastruct is proposed.A NIS forms part of this application

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18573

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  for change of use of garage to home office and for Retention permission for Agricultural Shed as constructed on lands at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18437

• 11 Jul 2017Refused

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling and detached garage, with septic tank/percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17459

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• KK020-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A large ringfort (diam. c. 60m) with trees growing around the perimeter and scrub in the interior. The edge of the SW-W sector has been encroached upon by plots associated with houses immediately S and NW of the monument. A public road runs roughly NW-SE between the ringfort and the medieval church (KK020-045001-) and graveyard (KK020-045002-) which is immediately SW of the road. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 366) describes it as, 'a very fine moat-shaped rath, probably the "Black Rath" from which the church was formerly named'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 December 2020

• KK020-045001 Church
  Description

  On a W-facing slope with limited views due to trees and rise in ground level. Centrally placed within a raised, roughly triangular graveyard (KK020-045002-). The church is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran in ‘Madackstowne’ townland (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). It is also indicated on the Down Survey parish map of Blackrath and St Martins and the accompanying terrier describes, ‘on Maddockstowne…the walls of a Church’ and lists ‘S[i]r Edm[on]d Blanchfield’ as the proprietor in 1640 (NLI MS720). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 366) the church was dedicated to, The Blessed Virgin, under the title of her Nativity (Sept. 8)’ and was the prebendal church of Blackrath, now known as Maddockstown. An undivided rectangular church (int. dims. 10.5m E-W x 4.25m N-S) constructed of sandstone with some limestone and shale also in evidence. It has a partial external base-batter. Present remains comprise the W gable, S wall with external buttress at W end, N wall and ruinous E gable, with collapsed masonry in the interior. The church was entered through a doorway, now marked by breach (Wth 2m), at the W end of the S wall. An arch stone fragment located at NE end of the graveyard was probably part of the doorway surround. Only one window survives, a single-light flat-headed window (int. dims. 1m x 0.4m) with glazing-bar holes in E end of S wall. There are traces of a window embrasure in the W gable, described by Carrigan (ibid.) as, ‘a tall, very narrow, damaged window, with a very narrow splay, high up in the west gable’. An associated Ossory-type font (KK020-045003-) is currently located at the NE end of the graveyard. See attached: KK020-045001-_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin KK020-045001-_02 Google Earth image Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• KK020-045002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a W-facing slope with limited view due to trees and rise in ground level. The medieval church of Maddockstown (KK020-045001-) is located in the centre of this roughly triangular-shaped graveyard (max. dims. c. 40m E-W x c. 35 N-S), consisting of a raised area enclosed by a stone wall. A public road runs along the NE side, with the entrance to the graveyard along this wall. Another roadway, now a pedestrian lane, runs along the NW side and formerly led to a 17th-century watermill (KK020-046----) on the River Nore, now disused. There are no visible gravestones earlier than 18th century. A medieval font (KK020-045003-) is located within the graveyard, immediately S of the entrance. See attached Google Earth image Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• KK020-045003 Font
  Description

  Associated with the medieval church of Maddockstown (KK020-045001-) and located within its graveyard (KK020-045002-), adjacent to the entrance. The font was first recorded by Robertson (1894, 192), at which time it was described as being, ‘long ago broken into two pretty equal parts’. The graveyard was tidied c. 1950 and the font was rediscovered consisting of, ‘the entire bowl, though broken in many pieces, but only half of the base and none of the supporting pillars’ (Anon. 1960, 51). The Kilkenny Archaeological Society commissioned its restoration by Tom MacDonald, a monumental sculptor who reconstructed the central pedestal, supporting pillars and half of the base (Pike 1989, 577; O’Kelly 1969, 65). The font is square (ext. dims. 0.71m x 0.71m; H 0.35m) in plan with a circular basin (diam. 0.45m) and centrally placed drain-hole. All four sides are decorated with Gothic flutes and the top of two of the angles have carved heads in relief. The corners of the upper surface of the font are decorated with incised intertwined vine leaves. The surviving portion of the base (originally square in plan 0.65m x 0.65m) is decorated with four raised concentric circular mouldings. The whole now rests on a concrete plinth. This has been identified by Pike (1989, 573-82, 597-8) as an Ossory-type font and possibly dates to the late 13th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• KK020-045004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Within the graveyard (KK020-045002-), at the NE end, associated with the medieval church of Maddockstown (KK020-045001-). An arch stone fragment was probably part of the doorway, now broken out, of the medieval church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• KK020-046 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  On the E bank of a former branch of the River Nore, possibly modified to form a millrace, now dried up. Indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran in ‘Maddockstowne’ townland (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). Also indicated on the Down Survey parish map of Blackrath and St Martins and the accompanying terrier describes, ‘on Maddockistowne …a Mill in repaire’ and lists ‘S[i]r Edm[on]d Blanchfield’ as the proprietor in 1640 (NLI MS720). According to Doyle (1985, 155), this mill, ‘which probably dates from the 16th century. It had been converted to a dwelling house, but it is now partly roofless. It is situated beside a long dried-up mill stream. It is a narrow building, rather low for a two-storey house. The hole where the shaft of the mill wheel entered is still to be seen’. See attached: KK020-046----_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin KK020-046----_02 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Blackrath and St Martins (NLI MS720) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• KK020-048 Enclosure
  Description

  On the E bank of the River Nore which lies c. 80m to the W. A large raised oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 70m N-S; c. 55m E-W) with trees and scrub growing around the edges. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• KK020-049 Enclosure
  Description

  On the S end of a hillock in pasture. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m). It is not shown on the subsequent 1900 revision which suggests that is was levelled between 1839 and 1900. A satellite image (OS Ortho, viewed 9 December 2020) shows the enclosure as a faint cropmark and also visible is a small quarry (diam. c. 45m) in the N portion of the hillock, c. 10m N of the enclosure. See attached satellite image: KK020-049----_01 OS Ortho, viewed 9 December 2020 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• KK020-052 Burnt mound
  Description

  In tillage. Identified during fieldwalking in advance of the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (Sleeman 1983, 365-6). Described as a, 'large area (11m x 6m) of black soil and shattered sandstone fragments. The area was generally horse-shoe shaped in plan. The site was probably a fulacht fiadh' (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 December 2020

• KK020-062 Well
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as 'Maddockstown Well' in Gothic script which suggests that it was considered an antiquity when the map was being drawn up. It would appear to have been a domestic well, described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 366) as, 'a good well'. He mentions that there is no holy well in Maddockstown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2021

• KK020-090 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BN.26) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of upload: 29 May 2012

• KK020-110 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) defined by a fosse, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (18) 15-17, 2 August 1996). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 August 2015

Architectural heritage

• Prims Cottage, miller's house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of flour mill complex, c.1800, including:(i) Detached three-bay single-storey mill manager's house with half-dormer attic. In use, 1902. Now in private residential use. Hipped gabled slate roof (gabled to half-dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble limestone walls with remains of unpainted roughcast lime render over. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, red brick dressings (originally concealed), timber lintels to ground floor (one shared), and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with shared timber lintel, and timber panelled door. Set in grounds originally shared with Highrath Flour Mill perpendicular to road with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site.(ii) Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, iron flue, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on squared limestone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls with traces of unpainted roughcast lime render over. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone shallow sills, concealed red brick dressings, timber lintels, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded door.

• Mill (water), 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Flour mill complex, c.1775. In use as saw mill complex, 1902, including:(i) Detached five-bay four-storey building possibly originally with attic. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now gone with no rainwater goods surviving on ivy-clad squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls partly collapsed with dressed limestone quoins to corners. Camber-headed window openings with no sills, squared limestone voussoirs, and no fittings surviving. Single segmental arch culvert with squared limestone voussoirs. Set back from road in own grounds on bank of River Nore with overgrown grounds to site.(ii) Detached five-bay five-storey double-pile building with attic with single-bay five-storey side elevations continuing through single-bay five-storey linking bay into five-bay five-storey parallel range. Now in ruins. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) roofs now gone with no rainwater goods surviving on ivy-clad squared rubble limestone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls partly collapsed with dressed limestone quoins to corners, and sections of slate-hanging throughout. Camber-headed window openings (some square-headed window openings throughout) with no sills, squared limestone voussoirs (lintels to square-headed openings), and remains of timber casement windows.

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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_2209 (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 Maddockstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Maddockstown · Baile Mhadóg

Area

2,397,674 m² (239.77 ha, 592.48 acres)

Civil parish

Blackrath, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Dunbell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunbell electoral division: 525 people in 192 households; 93% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Dunbell Big, Highrath, Kilferagh, Rathgarvan or Clifden, Warrington

Placenames

Maddockstown 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.