Tomakeany
Tomakeany is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacar, barony of Fassadinin, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Tom an Chaonaigh.
- Area
- 77.8 ha
- 192 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 40,949 m² (4.09 ha, 10.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomakeany, from 1,304 m² to 136,846 m² (13.68 ha, 33.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tomakeany 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
21 Jun 2024Conditional
for a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance, a Tertiary Treatment System and Infiltration/treatment area and all necessary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460290
22 Dec 2023Conditional
for a single storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and bored well with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360609
1 Mar 2022Conditional
for a storey and a half type dwelling, wastewater treatment system and bored well with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22120
11 Jun 2021Conditional
for the construction of a two storey detached dwelling, detached garage, new vehicle entance, private well, percolation area with packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, landscaping and all other site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21510
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 Tomakeany.
Recorded monuments
- KK010-014 Moated site
Description
On the E side of a level terrace below the crest of a ridge of hills between the Deen and Gloshia rivers, in wet marshy terrain with many small streams. There views are limited views in all directions. A rectangular platform (int. dims. 22m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by slight overgrown bank with wide external waterlogged fosse (Wth c. 4-5m; D c. 0.6m). Barry (1977, 191) mentions that there are 'two springs in moat'. Water from the fosse flows from the SE and SW corner. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 November 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tomakeany.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Tomakeany, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tomakeany.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tomakeany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Tomakeany · Tom an Chaonaigh
- Area
- 777,692 m² (77.77 ha, 192.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fassadinin
- Electoral division
- Kilmacar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 471 people lived in 157 households in the Kilmacar electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Tomakeany 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.