Molassy

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Molassy, from 1,099 m² to 149,369 m² (14.94 ha, 36.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Molassy 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.

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  for ten-year permission for development. The development will consist of the provision of a temporary prefabricated welfare unit on the site of Callan Water Treatment Plant including associated site works. The planning application is accompanied by a Stage 11 Appropriate Assessment (Natura Impact Statement)

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20161

• 13 Feb 2020N/a

  for ten-year permission for development. The development will consist of the provision of a temporary prefabricated welfare unit on the site of Callan Water Treatment Plant including associated site works. The planning application is accompanied by a Stage II Appropriate Assessment (Natura Impact Statement).

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2082

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Molassy.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak; single-bay single-storey lean-to flush end bay (north). Hipped gabled (south) and hipped (north) thatch roof with paired exposed stretchers to degraded raised ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth with cement rendered buttresses to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window opening (south) with shallow sill, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash window. Set in own grounds with roughcast piers to "cottage garden" having concrete capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.

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, 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_3421 (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 Molassy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Molassy · Baile an Bhailéisigh

Area

697,670 m² (69.77 ha, 172.4 acres)

Civil parish

Callan, and its townlands

Barony

Callan

Electoral division

Callan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Callan Rural electoral division: 1,932 people in 628 households; 82% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broadmore, Callan South, Dirtystep, Earlsland, Moanmore Commons, Mullaunglass, Slade, Westcourt Demesne, Westcourt South

Placenames

Molassy 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.