# Mortgage Fields, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of St. Patrick's, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Na Morgáistí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 199,790 m² (19.98 ha, 49.37 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,912 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: St. Patrick's, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/st-patricks.md - Barony: Shillelogher - Electoral division: Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/26959 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 91200 - Centre: latitude 52.638894, longitude -7.283162 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mortgage Fields, from 3,278 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres) to 188,230 m² (18.82 ha, 46.51 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 870582: 188,230 m² (18.82 ha, 46.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/870582.md - Parcel 827728: 7,912 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/827728.md - Parcel 864099: 3,278 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/864099.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mortgage Fields 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. - 9 Jul 2025, Kilkenny County Council 2560416: Conditional. Permission. for development. The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development, battery storage and grid route with a total site area of 25.1 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, MV Power Stations, substation, batteries, MV stations, new access tracks, underground cabling and ducting, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound, 10kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Rosehill 38kV substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The proposed development consists of works within the curtilage of Protected Structures Ref. C1000, C1002 and C330. The development would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560416/0 - 16 Apr 2025, Kilkenny County Council 2560202: N/a. Permission. for development at this site. The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development, battery storage and grid route with a total site area of 25.1 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, MV Power Stations, substation, batteries, MV stations, new access tracks, underground cabling and ducting, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound, 10kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Rosehill 38kV substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The development would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560202/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mortgage Fields. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mortgage Fields. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Castle Blunden, gates/railings/walls, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 12401905, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12401905. Gateway, c.1800, comprising pair of rusticated limestone ashlar piers with cut-limestone capping, iron double gates incorporating quatrefoil motifs, random rubble limestone curved flanking walls having cut-limestone coping supporting iron railings, limestone ashlar outer piers having cut-limestone capping, random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having dressed limestone piers with cut-limestone capping, and iron double gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Castle Blunden. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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_2168, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2168.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/mortgage-fields.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/mortgage-fields.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/mortgage-fields.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mortgage Fields 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) - Castleblunden: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/castleblunden.md - Clonmoran: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/clonmoran.md - Drakeland Middle: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/drakeland-middle.md - Poulgour: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/poulgour.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/mortgage-fields - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/mortgage-fields