Riversfield

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riversfield, from 402 m² to 172,195 m² (17.22 ha, 42.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Riversfield 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 Jul 2025Conditional

  for: (A) The decommissioning of existing septic tank to existing dwelling and upgrading to a new treatment tank with percolation area, (B) Upgrading and improvement of existing vehicular entrance to existing dwelling, including all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560455

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 Riversfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Riversfield.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Riversfield.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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_3416 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Riversfield · Garraí na hAbhann

Area

283,469 m² (28.35 ha, 70.05 acres)

Civil parish

Callan, and its townlands

Barony

Callan

Electoral division

Callan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunta Commons, Coolalong, Foulksrath, Kilbride Glebe

Placenames

Riversfield 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.