Tinvaun

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tinvaun, from 174 m² to 439,033 m² (43.9 ha, 108.49 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 Tinvaun 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.

• 3 Jul 2024Conditional

  for a single storey, three-bedroom dwelling house with an attached two-bedroom family flat, a detached garage, a new site entrance, a septic tank and percolation area, a bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460313

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  to carry out alterations to our existing house to include for new single storey side extension, new porch to front of house, new access door to side of house, minor alterations to ground and first floor fenestration together with associated site works to our property located

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20492

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 Tinvaun.

Recorded monuments

• KK027-051 Structure
  Description

  Named 'Hermit's Cave' on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1839) where it is represented as a rectangular structure (dims. c. 26m E-W; c. 12m N-S). It has been destroyed by the time of the OS 1:2500 survey in 1899 as it is there named 'Hermit's Cave (Site of)'. Satellite imagery (DigitalGlobe imagery date 2011-13) shows a reclaimed field with no visible structure at the location of the 'Hermit's Cave'. The precise nature of this feature is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 April 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Tinvaun.

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

Name

Tinvaun · Tigh an Bhábhúin

Area

1,699,850 m² (169.99 ha, 420.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilree, and its townlands

Barony

Kells

Electoral division

Dunnamaggan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunnamaggan electoral division: 460 people in 154 households; 91% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunreagh, Danganbeg, Kilree, Knockadrina, Newtown, Shortallstown, Stonecarthy West

Placenames

Tinvaun 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.