Sheepstown

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheepstown, from 36 m² to 310,855 m² (31.09 ha, 76.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Sheepstown 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.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  Permission to 1) Disassemble for rebuilding two existing attached cattle sheds. 2) Reconstruct the two disassembled cattle sheds to one new cattle shed in a new location, increasing the height, length and adding an underground covered slatted slurry tank. 3) Construct additional new slatted cattle shed with an underground slatted slurry tank opposite the rebuilt cattle shed. Retention Planning Permission to retain a mobile home till the completion of the renovation of the existing farm house

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560281

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  for development at the existing detached house, The proposed development will consist of: demolition of the existing garage and construction of new single storey extensions to the front, side and rear, new garage to the rear of the property and all other ancillary internal and external works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460345

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  to (A) Demolish existing sub floor construction on site, and (B) construct a dormer style dwelling on site with granted planning (05/456), site No. 1 on that planning, (C) construct a detached garage on site, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21892

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling on site as granted planning 051456 (on site No.3 on that planning), also new detached garage, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21516

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  for development of a slatted shed, concrete apron, loose shed, concrete apron and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20437

• 8 Aug 2019Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, on top of the already constructed base/ substructure as granted planning 05/1456 (on site no. 2 on that planning), also new detached garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19564

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  is being sought for 2 storey extension to side of existing house for garage and study at ground floor and 2 bedrooms over, also to close in existing open porch and upgrading of wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19346

• 10 May 2019N/a

  is being sought for 2 storey extension to side of existing house for garage and study at ground floor and 2 bedroom over, also to close in existing open porch and upgrading of wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19313

• 3 Aug 2018Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewerage, treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18522

• 15 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house , sewerage treatment system and percolation area including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18394

• 21 Nov 2017Conditional

  to re-roof the existing Community Centre provision of an extension to the rear to cater for kitchen area and storage, with additional parking area, including all necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17768

• 6 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a roofed cubicle house and feed passage, to include extending existing slatted storage tank, including all necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17659

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK031-013 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK031-014 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK031-015001 Church
  Description

  On a low rise with ground falling away in all directions, in undulating terrain, surrounded by pasture. The church is enclosed by small roughly circular graveyard (KK031-015002-) bounded by modern wall, which is within a slightly larger circular enclosure (KK031-015003-). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 9), ‘Its patron is St. Muicin or Muicceen (Latine, Mochinus), of Maighin, Bishop, whose festival was celebrated here on the 4th March’, he goes on to says that the church belonged to the Priory of Kells before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. An undivided 12th-century Romanesque church (ext. dims. 14m E-W; 6.6m N-S; int. dims. 12.43m E-W; 5.14m N-S; W gable wall T 0.85m) built of large and small blocks roughly coursed, the quoins at all four angles have a vertical roll-moulding at the angle. The quoins at the NW angle are surmounted by a stone which projects westward, this very worn stone, which appears to have been carved, has been interpreted rather enigmatically by Carrigan (ibid.) as a “clock-stone”, however, it may simply be a decorative terminal for the roof coping stones or could even be ex situ as the gable stones above it appear to be later repair work. Much of the E gable is leaning outward, in order to arrest its collapse two externally buttresses were built, presumably in the late 19th century (visible in a photograph in Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 8). Put-log holes are visible internally and externally in the upper portion of the E gable. The church was entered through a round-headed doorway with cut-stone voussoirs rising from projecting plain imposts, chamfered towards the base. The doorway tapers towards the top (Wth at base 0.99m; Wth below imposts 0.88m; total H 2.32m; H to base of imposts 1.74m) and the cut-stone jambs have a vertical roll-moulding at the angle. There is a narrow pointed doorway (Wth 0.56m; H 2.12m) with crude voussoirs towards the E end of the S wall, the head and W side of which are completely rebuilt, however, rather than being a completely later insert, it is possible that the E jambs, particularly the lower jambs with vertical roll-moulding, are part of an original S doorway which led into a sacristy. The doorway has an internal rebate, with draw-bar hole on the E side. The church was lit by a single-light window (H 1.7m; Wth 0.22m) in the E gable, which has an external rebate and chamfer. The window head, though possibly round appears to be slightly pointed, and although rebated and chamfered externally, it may be a later insert. The pointed segmental head of the embrasure, with its crude voussoirs, differs in form from the embrasure surround, suggesting it may also be a later insert, and that perhaps the apex of the W gable is a later rebuild. The window at the E end of the S wall has been entirely rebuilt, including the very crude, worn head, which is triangular with a rough external rebate. This window head was found lying about and was placed in its present position in 1935 during repair works (OPW correspondence and field notes). W of the inserted doorway in the S wall there is evidence of another window, though only the E side of the splay of the embrasure survives. This window is mentioned in the OS Letters (1839) (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 38) as being, ‘five feet eight inches [1.73m] from the ground, three feet ten [1.17m] high and two feet one [0.63m] wide (high?) on the inside of which the rectilineal pointed arch made one foot [0.3m], one stone of which (forming its half) only remains. The outside is entirely broken but its breadth could not have been more than three inches [0.075m]’. The N wall is largely collapsed, however, there is evidence of a window at the E end of the wall, though only the lower W side of the embrasure survives. A portion of cloister arcading (KK031-015006-) from Jerpoint Abbey (KK028-062005-), which lies 6.5km to the NE, had been brought to the graveyard as a grave-marker (Manning 1975, 118-9; OPW correspondence and field notes). It is currently fixed on top of the reduced N wall of the church, at the W end. (National Monument no. 73) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 February 2017

• KK031-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a low rise with ground falling away in all directions, in undulating terrain, surrounded by pasture. A 12th-century church (KK031-015001-), aligned E-W, is located in the N half of the graveyard. The roughly circular graveyard (dims. c. 24m N-S; c. 26m E-W) is bounded by modern stone wall. The graveyard is itself surrounded by a slightly larger circular enclosure (KK031-015003-). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 9), the patron of the church is St. Muicin or Muicceen, whose festival was celebrated on the 4th March. There are seven headstones, including a pseudo-Celtic cross from 1954, which are all located in the graveyard to the S of the church. There date from the late 18th century, 19th and 20th centuries, with two burials added in 2007 and 2008 respectively to existing grave plots with 20th-century headstones. There are also a lot of small stones which have been used as grave-markers. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 February 2017

• KK031-015003 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low rise with ground falling away in all directions, in undulating terrain, surrounded by pasture. A roughly circular graveyard (KK031-015002-) with a 12th-century church (KK031-015001-) in the N half of the graveyard, is centrally placed within a larger enclosure. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 9), the patron of the church is St. Muicin or Muicceen, whose festival was celebrated on the 4th March. The larger enclosure (dims. c. 47m N-S to S field boundary; 62m E-W) is also roughly circular, though it has been truncated in the S quadrant by a field boundary running ESE-WNW with a farm immediately S of this field boundary. The enclosure is defined by an earthen bank, which in the W sector has been reduced to scarp (H. 0.8m; Wth 3m). In the N sector the bank has probably been incorporated in a field boundary, running roughly E-W, which kinks out in a northward curve on a line where it meets the enclosure. The E quadrant is the best preserved where the bank (int. H 0.35m; Wth at top 0.8m; overall Wth 3.5m; ext. H 1.25m) is almost continuous, apart from a few gaps caused by cattle erosion. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 February 2017

• KK031-015006 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Currently fixed on top of the reduced N wall of the medieval church at Sheepstown (KK031-015001-), at the W end. A portion of cloister arcading from Jerpoint Abbey (KK028-062005-), which lies 6.5km to the NE, had been brought to the graveyard as a grave-marker (Manning 1975, 118-9; OPW correspondence and field notes). It is described by Manning (1975, 118) as, ‘the lower half of a dumb-bell sectioned cloister column with a carving in relief of the lower half of a two-bodied grotesque with wings and claws, and tails spiralling inwards towards each other’. The fragment was probably cemented into its present position during repair works carried out at the site in 1951 (ibid., 119). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 February 2016

• KK031-074 Burnt spread
  Description

  In boggy grassland under pasture. A burnt spread excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Powerstown realignment. Excavation licence number: E3017. The remains comprised a deposit (max. L 3.75m; max. Wth 2.8m) of black friable silt, charcoal and heat-cracked stones located close to and truncated by a modern ditch. (Channing 2008; Channing 2009, 252, no. 990) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1903–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1903-10, with "ER [Edwardus Rex] VII" royal cipher. Set in lichen-spotted rendered surround in boundary wall.

• Farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.

• Farm house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1825, with single-bay two-storey breakfront, and two-bay single-storey wing to left. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond squat chimney stack, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with painted cut-stone sills, two-over-two timber sash windows to ground floor having wrought iron bars, and timber casement windows to remainder. Square-headed door opening with two concrete steps, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with painted roughcast boundary wall having rendered coping, rendered, ruled and lined piers, and iron double gates. (ii) Attached three-bay single-storey outbuilding wing, post-1840, to right. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed slit-style window openings with concealed dressings, and fittings not discernible. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door. (iii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic, post-1840, with series of three square-headed carriageways. Reroofed, c.1975. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-iron, c.1975, iron ridge, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Series of three square-headed carriageways with iron double doors. (iv) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, pre-1840, with square-headed carriageway to left, and four-bay single-storey lower wing with half-attic to right. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on exposed timber eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed door openings with timber doors. Square-headed carriageway to left with corrugated-iron fittings. Camber-headed window openings to ground floor to wing with square-headed window openings to half-attic, no sills, rendered dressings, and timber casement windows. Camber-headed door openings with rendered dressings, and corrugated-iron doors.

• Sheepstown Castle, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1800, possibly incorporating fabric of medieval castle, pre-1700, on site with three-bay two-storey rear (north-east) elevation, and two-bay single-storey recessed end bay with dormer attic to left. Hipped slate roof (pitched to end bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves having iron ties. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows. Door opening not visible. Interior with remains of timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1800, possibly with half-attic. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Remains of unpainted roughcast lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction with iron tie bars. Square-headed window openings with no sills, concealed dressings, and remains of timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with concealed dressings, and painted corrugated-iron doors in timber frames. (iii) Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1800. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on rendered dressed limestone eaves. Unpainted lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with no sills, concealed dressings, and remains of timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with concealed dressings, and painted corrugated-iron doors in timber frames.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Sheepstown.

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

Name

Sheepstown · Baile na gCaorach

Area

2,312,021 m² (231.2 ha, 571.31 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktopher, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Knocktopher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygeardra, Baysrath, Baysrath, Croan, Danganmore, Glebe, Knocktopher Commons, Newmarket, Newtown, Tuitestown

Placenames

Sheepstown 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.