Mountloftus

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountloftus, from 220 m² to 93,278 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mountloftus 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.

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  (a) demolition of non-original single storey extension to rear, (b) replacement with the construction of a single storey orangerie style conservatory to the rear, (c) internal alterations to layouts at ground and first floor levels involving new openings in existing walls and new walls, (d) lowering of a section of the ground floor and installation of a domestic lift for universal access, (e) alterations to external opes to rear and sides and (f) all associated works required

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460456

• 29 Aug 2023N/a

  to construct slatted loose shed with underground effluent tank and manure area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360388

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  of (i) Storage Shed (ii) Two loose sheds (iii) Slatted feeding area (iv) hardcore bale storage area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21228

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountloftus.

Recorded monuments

• KK025-022001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Powerstown, in the barony of Gowran, indicates a castle in Drumroe townland, which subsequently became Mountloftus townland (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). The terrier accompanying this parish map mentions, 'There[i]s on Drumroe a Ruinous Castle' with the 'Earle of Ormond' listed as the proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). According to O'Kelly (1969, 88) the castle was formerly a Cavanagh stronghold of which 'only the vaulted stone chambers remain'. O'Kelly (ibid.) also mentions a tradition that the castle was 'erected on a rath' (KK025-022002-). See attached: KK025-022001-_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Powerstown (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

• KK025-022002 Enclosure
  Description

  According to O'Kelly (1969, 88) there is a tradition that Drumroe Castle (KK025-022001-) was 'erected on a rath'. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS map there is a roughly circular ring of trees (diam. c. 30m) enclosing the castle. Satellite imagery only shows the castle, with no indication of an outer enclosing element. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

Architectural heritage

• Mount Loftus, gates/railings/walls, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, reconstructed 1906, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier gateway, 1750, comprising pair of granite ashlar piers with stringcourses supporting inscribed friezes, carved cornices supporting cut-granite capping, wrought iron double gates having cast-iron finials, sections of wrought iron flanking railings incorporating pedestrian gates, granite ashlar outer piers with stringcourses supporting inscribed friezes, carved cornices supporting cut-granite capping, unpainted rendered curved flanking walls with cut-granite coping, granite ashlar terminating piers with stringcourses supporting inscribed friezes, and carved cornices supporting cut-granite capping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Mount Loftus.

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

At the centre of the townland of Mountloftus, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountloftus.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Mountloftus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Mountloftus · Droim Ró

Area

193,957 m² (19.4 ha, 47.93 acres)

Civil parish

Powerstown, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Powerstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

524 people lived in 180 households in the Powerstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrowmount, Gorteen, Pollagh, Powerstown East

Placenames

Mountloftus 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.