Toortane

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toortane, from 10 m² to 260,171 m² (26.02 ha, 64.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Toortane 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.

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  retention permission of extension to existing permitted dwelling, out offices as constructed and all assocaited site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20719

• 26 May 2020Conditional

  is hereby sought 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, 20324

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of demolition of existing house and out buildings, construction of a new single storey dwelling house, re-location of existing site entrance, new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19456

• 20 Jun 2019N/a

  for development. The development will consist of demolition of existing house and out buildings, construction of a new single storey dwelling house, re-location of existing site entrance, new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19435

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19343

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  for single storey dwelling, entrance and garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18793

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a 4 Bay Slatted Shed including underground tank and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18477

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 Toortane.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage with dormer attic, c.1875, possibly originally three-bay single-storey incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site. In use as dispensary/medical hall, 1902. Mostly refenestrated, c.1950. Now entirely in residential use. Hipped roof with oat thatch having rope work to ridge, and rendered chimney stacks having red brick coping. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction having batter with painted rendered quoins to end. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1950, retaining six-over-three timber sash window to rear (north-east) elevation. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road about a courtyard.(ii) Detached six-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1875, perpendicular to south. Reroofed, c.1950. Pitched roofs with painted replacement corrugated-iron, c.1950, having iron ridges, rendered coping to party walls, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Painted (limewashed) random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors.(iii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1875, to west. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Painted (limewashed) random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors.

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 Toortane, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toortane · An Tuartán

Area

1,244,968 m² (124.5 ha, 307.64 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Clogh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,288 people lived in 471 households in the Clogh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogh, Cloneen, Doonane (Co. Laois), Kill

Placenames

Toortane 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.