# Mountloftus, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Powerstown, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Droim Ró. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 193,957 m² (19.4 ha, 47.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 32,105 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Powerstown, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/powerstown.md - Barony: Gowran - Electoral division: Powerstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27318 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 91203 - Centre: latitude 52.604902, longitude -6.987506 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountloftus, from 220 m² to 93,278 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 817735: 93,278 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/817735.md - Parcel 868513: 34,693 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/868513.md - Parcel 822288: 34,366 m² (3.44 ha, 8.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/822288.md - Parcel 816938: 29,844 m² (2.98 ha, 7.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/816938.md - Parcel 850353: 2,786 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/850353.md - Parcel 840873: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/840873.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 25 Sept 2024, Kilkenny County Council 2460456: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460456/0 - 29 Aug 2023, Kilkenny County Council 2360388: N/a. Permission. to construct slatted loose shed with underground effluent tank and manure area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360388/0 - 30 Mar 2021, Kilkenny County Council 21228: Conditional. Retention. of (i) Storage Shed (ii) Two loose sheds (iii) Slatted feeding area (iv) hardcore bale storage area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21228/0 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 Mountloftus. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KK025-022001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK025-022001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK025-022002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mount Loftus, gates/railings/walls, 1905–1910, Regional interest, registry number 12402513, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12402513. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/mountloftus.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/mountloftus.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/mountloftus.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountloftus 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) - Barrowmount: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/barrowmount.md - Gorteen: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/gorteen-90832.md - Pollagh: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/pollagh-91288.md - Powerstown East: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/powerstown-east.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/mountloftus - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/mountloftus