Maudlinsland

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maudlinsland, from 8 m² to 104,254 m² (10.43 ha, 25.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing low density residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 13 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 · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  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.

• 2 May 2023N/a

  for provision of additional car parking spaces and for alterations to existing parking layout, provision of accessible access footpaths and associated site works and ancillary related works. The premises is included in the Record of Protected Structures, Ref. B216.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360177

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  for entrance works to consist of widening of entrance, new pedestrian entrance, new blockwork piers and automated gate and widening of driveway along with all associated site & development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22424

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  for a new single storey dwelling and associated site works, connection to services and site access via permitted development P19/242

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2043

• 11 Apr 2019Conditional

  for a new residential development of 31 dwellings consisting of 5 No. type A/A1 174m2 4 bedroom single storey dwellings, 1 No. type B 210m2 4 bedroom two storey dwelling, 10 No type C/C1 206m2 4/5 bedroom two storey dwellings, 9 No type D/D1 227 m2 5 bedroom two storey dwellings, 3 No. type E 274 m2 5 bedroom two storey dwellings, 3 No type E1 334 m2 5 bedroom two storey over basement / lower ground floor dwellings, new site entrance to Old Sion Road plus all site services and associated site works

  Permission, 31 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 19242

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maudlinsland.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Canice's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1845–1855 · National interest
  Description

  Detached forty-one-bay two- and three-storey Elizabethan Revival lunatic asylum, built 1849-51, on a symmetrical plan comprising three-bay three-storey central block with single-bay two-storey lean-to projecting porch to centre ground floor having single-bay three-storey gabled projecting flanking bays with two-storey canted bay windows, nine-bay three-storey recessed flanking wings having single-bay three-storey gabled breakfronts, single-bay three-storey gabled advanced re-entrant bays, single-bay three-storey gabled terminating bays having five-bay three-storey side elevations incorporating single-bay three-storey gabled breakfronts, and three-bay two-storey linking ranges extending into eight-bay two-storey lateral wings having single-bay two-storey re-entrant bays on engaged octagonal plans. Completed, 1893, with single-bay five-storey terminating (water) towers with attics added having two-bay five-storey side elevations. Now in use as hospital. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to projecting bays and to breakfronts; half-polygonal to engaged octagonal bays) with clay ridge tiles, squared rubble limestone and red brick Running bond chimney stacks having cut-limestone coping supporting paired cut-limestone diagonal pots, carved cut-limestone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves having consoles. Lean-to glazed roof to porch in timber frame with cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roofs to towers (hipped to attic windows) with ridge tiles having finials to apex, rooflights, swept eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves. Random squared rubble limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including quoins to corners to breakfronts, stepped buttresses (diagonal buttresses to corners; gabled buttresses to porch), round-headed blind openings to gables with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, carved stringcourses to gables to central block, and paired carved stringcourses to top floor to towers with square apertures having cut-limestone surrounds with chamfered reveals. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows in limestone ashlar surrounds having carved cut-limestone stringcourses to each floor, and cut-limestone coping to parapet) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions and transoms (forming bipartite and tripartite arrangement), some having hood mouldings over, and timber casement windows. Square-headed openings to porch in Tudor-headed recesses on two cut-limestone steps with glazed timber double doors having overlight, decorative overpanel, mullions and transoms to flanking openings forming bipartite arrangement, and timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to tower (some paired; some with cut-limestone mullions and transoms forming bipartite arrangement) with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, and iron fittings. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.

• Saint Canice's Hospital, building misc, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey Elizabethan Revival mortuary chapel, c.1850, with single-bay single-storey gabled breakfront, single-bay single-storey gabled recessed end bay to left, and single-bay single-storey gabled entrance breakfront to side (south-west) elevation. Renovated and refenestrated. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to breakfronts; gabled to end bay) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves. Random rubble limestone walls mostly repointed with tooled dressed limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, and replacement timber fittings. Segmental-headed opening to entrance breakfront with two concrete steps, iron gates, and segmental-headed door opening to chapel having replacement timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Canice's Hospital.

• Saint Canice's Hospital, church/chapel, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic chapel, built 1893, comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porches to north and to south, single-bay double-height lower bay to south-west, and single-bay double-height chancel to north-east on a polygonal plan having single-bay single-storey sacristy to north. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porches; half-polygonal to chancel with gablets over window openings) with profiled terracotta ridge tiles, sandstone ashlar chamfered chimney stack to sacristy on carved stringcourse having profiled cornice, cut-stone coping to gables having buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to north-east (with pointed-arch aperture on moulded stringcourse having chamfered reveals, bell now missing, and coping having cross finial to apex), and cast-iron rainwater goods on carved sandstone concave eaves. Broken coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls with sandstone ashlar dressings including quoins to corners (chamfered to porches), gabled stepped buttresses to north-east, and stepped clasping buttresses to chancel. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings to chancel on cut-sandstone sill course with cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, Y-mullions and tracery forming bipartite trefoil-headed arrangement (tripartite arrangement to north-east) having quatrefoils over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door openings with cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having profiled chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, mullions, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded glazing. Full-height interior open into roof with Gothic-style timber panelled confessional box to south-west, timber pews, exposed timber roof construction, and pointed-arch arches to south-west and to north-east (chancel) having chamfered reveals leading to moulded archivolt on decorative corbels. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Canice's Hospital.

• Saint Canice's Hospital, church/chapel, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement Gothic Revival single-cell Church of Ireland chapel, built 1893, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch to right, and single-bay single-storey lean-to lower vestry off-shoot to south-east. Pitched slate roof (gabled to porch; continuing into lean-to to vestry) with profiled terracotta ridge tiles, rock-faced cut-limestone chimney stack to vestry having cut-sandstone quoins, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-sandstone eaves. Broken coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls with sandstone ashlar dressings including quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings (trefoil-headed window openings to ends; square-headed window openings to vestry) with cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to porch with cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Canice's Hospital.

• Saint Canice's Hospital, outbuilding, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached eight-bay single-storey red brick outbuilding with attic, c.1850, comprising three-bay single-storey gable-fronted block with attic having five-bay single-storey recessed lateral wing to right. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to main block) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having carved cut-limestone stringcourse, cut-limestone coping to gables having square-profiled finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick Running bond eaves. Red brick Running bond walls. Camber-headed window openings with cut-limestone chamfered flush sills, red brick surrounds having chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane timber windows having mullions incorporating casement overlights. Camber-headed door openings with red brick surrounds (including voussoirs) having chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors having overpanels. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Canice's Hospital.

• Saint Canice's Hospital, chimney, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Engaged red brick chimney, c.1850, comprising tapered shaft on a square plan with brick in Common (fifth course headers) bond having cut-limestone concave coping. Now disused. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Canice's Hospital.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

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 Maudlinsland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Maudlinsland · Fearann an Mhaidilín

Area

212,474 m² (21.25 ha, 52.5 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkenny Rural electoral division: 18,603 people in 6,480 households; 64% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Archersgrove, Dukesmeadows, Gallowshill, Lacken, Middleknock, Quarryland

Placenames

Maudlinsland 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.