# Molassy, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Callan, barony of Callan, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Baile an Bhailéisigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 697,670 m² (69.77 ha, 172.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 59,272 m² (5.93 ha, 14.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Callan, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/callan.md - Barony: Callan - Electoral division: Callan Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/26179 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 91175 - Centre: latitude 52.547553, longitude -7.414604 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Molassy, from 1,099 m² to 149,369 m² (14.94 ha, 36.91 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 864957: 149,369 m² (14.94 ha, 36.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/864957.md - Parcel 822349: 132,916 m² (13.29 ha, 32.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/822349.md - Parcel 864953: 126,463 m² (12.65 ha, 31.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/864953.md - Parcel 822256: 87,174 m² (8.72 ha, 21.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/822256.md - Parcel 815436: 86,863 m² (8.69 ha, 21.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/815436.md - Parcel 864959: 59,305 m² (5.93 ha, 14.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/864959.md - Parcel 822257: 59,239 m² (5.92 ha, 14.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/822257.md - Parcel 865060: 33,592 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/865060.md - Parcel 864958: 32,318 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/864958.md - Parcel 827964: 6,914 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/827964.md - Parcel 3335223: 3,071 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3335223.md - Parcel 870628: 1,099 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/870628.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 13 Mar 2020, Kilkenny County Council 20161: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20161/0 - 13 Feb 2020, Kilkenny County Council 2082: N/a. Permission. 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).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2082/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Molassy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farm house, 1700–1839, Regional interest, registry number 12402604, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12402604. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3421.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/molassy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/molassy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/molassy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Molassy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Broadmore: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/broadmore.md - Callan South: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/callan-south.md - Dirtystep: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/dirtystep.md - Earlsland: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/earlsland.md - Moanmore Commons: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/moanmore-commons.md - Mullaunglass: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/mullaunglass.md - Slade: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/slade.md - Westcourt Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/westcourt-demesne.md - Westcourt South: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/westcourt-south.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/molassy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/molassy