Sheafield North

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheafield North, from 64 m² to 113,295 m² (11.33 ha, 28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Sheafield North 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.

• 15 May 2024Refused

  to construct a single storey dwelling and a treatment system / percolation area, including all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2457

• 27 Mar 2024N/a

  to construct a single storey dwelling and a treatment system/percolation area, including all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2436

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  is being sought for the erection of a one and a half storey house, garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22683

• 31 May 2022Refused

  to construct a single storey dwelling and a treatment system / percolation area, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22353

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, bored well, waste water treatment and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21582

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 Sheafield North.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheafield North.

Architectural heritage

• Gowran Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay single-storey railway station, opened 1852. Closed, 1963. Now in residential use. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks on unpainted rendered bases having carved cut-limestone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Yellow brick Common (third course headers) bond walls with tooled cut-granite quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, yellow brick voussoirs, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with yellow brick voussoirs, and timber panelled doors having overlights. Set in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site, and platform along front (north) elevation having random rubble stone retaining wall with cut-granite coping. (ii) Detached two-bay double-height railway goods store, built 1852, to north originally having pair of camber-headed carriageways. Renovated, pre-1963, with carriageways remodelled. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners. Pair of camber-headed carriageways remodelled, pre-1963, accommodating camber-headed window openings with no sills, fixed-pane fittings, and tooled cut-limestone surrounds to outline of carriageways incorporating voussoirs. Square-headed door openings to side elevations with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.

• Unknown, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of formalised (canalised) river, established 1850, with random rubble limestone retaining walls having cut-limestone flagged decking.

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 5 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

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

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 Sheafield North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Sheafield North · Páirc na bPunann Thuaidh

Area

562,298 m² (56.23 ha, 138.95 acres)

Civil parish

Gowran, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Gowran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gowran electoral division: 1,556 people in 535 households; 78% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blanchvilleskill, Blanchvillespark, Earlsbog Commons, Kylebeg, Talbotshill

Placenames

Sheafield North 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.