# Riversfield, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Callan, barony of Callan, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Garraí na hAbhann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 283,469 m² (28.35 ha, 70.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Callan, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/callan.md - Barony: Callan - Electoral division: Callan Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/26184 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 91391 - Centre: latitude 52.530695, longitude -7.403512 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riversfield, from 402 m² to 172,195 m² (17.22 ha, 42.55 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 6100529: 172,195 m² (17.22 ha, 42.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6100529.md - Parcel 822488: 43,611 m² (4.36 ha, 10.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/822488.md - Parcel 6100484: 35,621 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6100484.md - Parcel 822487: 19,613 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/822487.md - Parcel 4996593: 2,908 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4996593.md - Parcel 823599: 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/823599.md - Parcel 816852: 2,021 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/816852.md - Parcel 827970: 1,355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/827970.md - Parcel 857092: 1,307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/857092.md - Parcel 838009: 1,293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/838009.md - Parcel 839541: 731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/839541.md - Parcel 816513: 402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/816513.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 25 Jul 2025, Kilkenny County Council 2560455: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560455/0 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 Riversfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Riversfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Riversfield. ## 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_3416, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3416.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/riversfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/riversfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/riversfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Riversfield 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) - Baunta Commons: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/baunta-commons.md - Coolalong: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/coolalong.md - Foulksrath: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/foulksrath-90751.md - Kilbride Glebe: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/kilbride-glebe.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/riversfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/riversfield