# Ricesland, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knocktopher, barony of Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Talamh an Rístigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 81,695 m² (8.17 ha, 20.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,523 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knocktopher, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/knocktopher.md - Barony: Knocktopher - Electoral division: Knocktopher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Knocktopher electoral division: 543 people in 192 households; 84% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27295 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 91381 - Centre: latitude 52.489819, longitude -7.231873 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ricesland, from 214 m² to 25,200 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 836085: 25,200 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/836085.md - Parcel 816561: 18,091 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/816561.md - Parcel 835115: 10,973 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/835115.md - Parcel 853105: 9,165 m² (0.92 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/853105.md - Parcel 853106: 7,339 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/853106.md - Parcel 5657763: 3,708 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657763.md - Parcel 4753163: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4753163.md - Parcel 835116: 1,796 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/835116.md - Parcel 3844422: 935 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3844422.md - Parcel 5657767: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657767.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ricesland 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. - 10 Jun 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19404: Conditional. Permission. for (a) the phased demolition of the existing supermarket building with ancillary stores and offices, and the demolition of the existing canopy over the fuel pumps and (b) for the phased construction of: (i) a new supermarket building comprising of convenience shop with off licence, stores area, staff facilities, public toilets, internal seating area, solid fuel store, plant and bin storage area to the rear of the new building and adjoining 2 no. commercial units with separate entrances, (ii) new canopy over the fuel pumps, (iii) realignment/alterations to the layout of the fuel pumps/islands with additional fuel pump, (iv) new Heavy Goods Vehicles Fuel Pump, located on the south eastern side of the site, (v) new automatic roller car wash, (vi) re-alignment of the boundary and vehicular entrance to the existing hotel car park on the southern corner of the site, (vii) extend the location of the north western boundary, (viii) new exit lane onto the public road at the rear of the proposed building on the northern corner of the site and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19404/0 - 19 Jan 2018, Kilkenny County Council 1834: Refused. Permission. Extension to Centra Supermarket, extension to forecourt canopy, extra fuel pumps, construct 2 new commercial units, extend carpark and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1834/0 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 Ricesland. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ricesland. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ricesland. ## 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_2196, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2196.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/ricesland.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ricesland.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ricesland.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ricesland 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) - Barrettstown: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/barrettstown.md - Bowersacre: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/bowersacre.md - Knocktopher Abbey: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knocktopher-abbey.md - Knocktopher Commons: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/knocktopher-commons.md - Whitescastle Lower: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/whitescastle-lower.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/ricesland - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/ricesland