Simonsland

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Simonsland, from 73 m² to 244,827 m² (24.48 ha, 60.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Simonsland 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.

• 10 Nov 2023Conditional

  to retain alterations to existing farm access road to include for road widening to 4 metres and surface improvements to accommodate the movement of farm machinery servicing farm lands

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360513

• 6 Oct 2023Refused

  to construct a single-storey dwelling house with roof terrace, new effluent treatment system, new site entrance, bored well and all associated site development works. This application will also include for the demolition of existing sub-standard sheds and a derelict dwelling house (in-ruin)

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360445

• 2 Oct 2023N/a

  TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ROOF TERRACE, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360435

• 7 Oct 2021Refused

  Retention of existing building as constructed, and Permission for the use of the retained building as a dwelling house, alterations to the building, a new wastewater treatment system and all site ancillary works. This application includes for Permission for change of use of existing farm house to a permanent farm storage building

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21843

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  retention of existing building as constructed, and permission for the use of the retained building as a dwelling house, alterations to the building, a new waste water treatment system and all site ancillary works. This application includes for permission for change of use of existing farm house to a permanent farm storage building

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2084

• 25 Jun 2019Conditional

  for domestic shed as constructed to rear of site and all associated site

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19447

• 25 Jul 2017Refused

  Retention of offices as constructed, parking area and existing septic tank and Permission to upgrade the existing percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17496

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Simonsland.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Simonsland, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Simonsland · Baile Shíomoin

Area

353,017 m² (35.3 ha, 87.23 acres)

Civil parish

Odagh, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Odagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

486 people lived in 161 households in the Odagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Keatingstown, Killaree, Naglesland, Threecastles, Threecastles Demesne, Troyswood

Placenames

Simonsland 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.