Shellumsrath
Townland in the civil parish of St. Patrick's, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Ráth an tSiollámaigh
Parcel 823337
- Area
- 88,351 m² (8.84 ha, 21.83 acres)
- Buildings
- 8 buildings touch it, 1,248 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- S5 Community Facilities (Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
O1 Strategic Reserve (Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
R1 New Residential (Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
R2 Existing Residential (Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective - Townland
- Shellumsrath
Planning applications on this parcel
9 Jul 2025Conditional
for development. The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development, battery storage and grid route with a total site area of 25.1 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, MV Power Stations, substation, batteries, MV stations, new access tracks, underground cabling and ducting, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound, 10kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Rosehill 38kV substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The proposed development consists of works within the curtilage of Protected Structures Ref. C1000, C1002 and C330. The development would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560416
16 Apr 2025N/a
for development at this site. The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development, battery storage and grid route with a total site area of 25.1 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, MV Power Stations, substation, batteries, MV stations, new access tracks, underground cabling and ducting, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound, 10kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Rosehill 38kV substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The development would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560202
21 Dec 2022Refused
for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store, installation of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2260024
22 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct a new 12,692.7 m2 School Campus containing Two Post Primary Schools comprised of (i) A school with two two-storey blocks including general classrooms, specialist rooms, S.E.N.S. area, circulation areas, offices, plant room, dining hall and associated kitchen and storage areas, (ii) A school with one two-storey block including general classrooms, specialist rooms, circulation areas, offices, plant room, dining hall and associated kitchen and storage areas, (iii) A sports hall, including two fitness suites and associated changing and storage areas (iv) an ESB Substation, (v) A new vehicular access, (vi) three new pedestrian entrances to the site, serving Poulgour Road and Western Environs Link Road, (vii) An on-site set down area and Staff car parking, (viii) Hard Play and landscaped social areas, (ix) Installation of Sports facilities in a fenced area around the school campus, (x) Storm sewer connection works, (xi) Watermain connection works and (xii) ancillary and site services
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21962
30 May 2017Conditional
for the erection of a dwellinghouse and domestic garage/store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17351
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2168 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 52.3 ha
- 129 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 1,299 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shellumsrath, from 34 m² to 198,319 m² (19.83 ha, 49.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Shellumsrath 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Dec 2025Conditional
to retain: (A) Single storey detached garage and storage sheds, (B) Single storey detached glasshouse. Including all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560805
3 Jun 2025Conditional
of domestic garage / store and fuel store and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560319
25 Jul 2023Conditional
to retain as follows: 1. extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, 2. domestic shed and carport, 3. domestic home office, 4. Planning Permission to install a secondary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360342
22 Sept 2021N/a
to retain as follows: 1. extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, 2. domestic shed and carport, 3. domestic home office and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21794
9 Jun 2021Conditional
for alterations and on extension to an existing dwelling house comprising of the construction of a single storey extension, internal and external alterations and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21504
15 Mar 2021Conditional
for construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21179
4 Nov 2019Conditional
for works to existing dwelling house comprising of the following, the partial demolition of the existing garage and store together with the conversion and refurbishment of part of the existing garage and store to a new single storey car port and store room, the construction of a new single storey extension to the side (South East) and rear (South West) of the existing dwelling house and the erection of velux rooflights to the first floor bedrooms to the south east and south west elevations all connected to the existing on-site septic tank and percolation area together with all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19825
28 Feb 2019Conditional
of extension to side of dwelling house and conversion of existing garage (alterations to plans approved under PL REF 00630) and permission for retention of garage (alterations to plans approved under PL REF 00630) and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19114
22 Feb 2018Conditional
for development consisting of a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18122
6 Apr 2017Refused
for development consisting of a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17218
28 Mar 2017N/a
for development consisting of a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17188
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shellumsrath.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shellumsrath.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shellumsrath.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2169 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Shellumsrath, Callan Rd5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Shellumsrath · Ráth an tSiollámaigh
- Area
- 523,274 m² (52.33 ha, 129.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Patrick's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkenny Rural electoral division: 18,603 people in 6,480 households; 64% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Archersleas, Baunreagh, Castleinch or Inchyolaghan, Clonmoran, Derdimus, Goslingstown, Margaret's Fields, Poulgour
- Placenames
- Shellumsrath 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.