Ullard

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ullard, from 135 m² to 369,585 m² (36.96 ha, 91.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ullard 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.

• 8 Nov 2024Conditional

  to construct a dormer style dwelling, detached single storey garage, new entrance, new percolation area and waste water treatment system, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460535

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  for development. The proposed development will consist of: the construction of a detached, single-storey dwelling; the construction of an associated garage; the provision of a new entrance and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21222

• 11 Mar 2021N/a

  for development. The proposed development will consist of: the construction of a detached, single-storey dwelling; the construction of an associated garage; the provision of a new entrance and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21163

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

• KK025-038001 Church
  Description

  The church and graveyard (KK025-038009-) at Ullard lie just below the brow of a steep E-facing slope, with good views N-E-SE. There is a high cross (KK025-038002-) immediately SE of the handball alley, a cross-slab (KK025-038011-) S of the W end of the church, two bullaun stones (KK025-038006-; KK025-038008-) 50m to N and 52m to the NNW respectively and a holy well (KK025-038003-) 70m to the N. A handball alley was built onto, and incorporated into, the E end of the church, the external face of which, up to the lower jambs of the E window, was given a cement render. A baptismal font (KK025-038004--; see KK029-018013- for font - present location) from this church was brought 4.5km S to Graiguenamanagh abbey (KK029-018001-) in 1814 (O’Leary 1948, 24). An early monastery was reputedly founded here by St Fiachra in the latter part of the 6th-century (Vigors 1893, 257). The church, consisting of a well-preserved nave (int. dims. 9.96m x 7.16m) and chancel (int. dims. 7.32m x 5.24m; wall T 1.07m), is constructed of roughly coursed granite rubble, with larger stones in the nave. A foundation plinth (H 0.6-0.8m; projecting out 0.12-0.47m) is visible along the base of the N wall, at the W end. The W gable has a fine Romanesque doorway arranged in three orders with a tympanum, and surrounded by a hood-moulding which is decorated with bosses on the chamfer and terminates in two large beast-heads. The outer order consists of lateral chevron with a single human mask on the keystone. The jambs of this order are half-round columns. The second arch order is made up of frontal chevron, while the inner order is unadorned. The surface of the tympanum is decorated with a badly eroded, sculpted human head, flanked on either side by two small blocks of sandstone decorated with bosses. There is a door-bar hole in the N jamb and a spud-stone on the S side. There is also a large stone threshold at the entrance, part of which is a reused large quernstone or spudstone. Above the doorway, in the apex of the gable, there is a triangular-headed window with external rebate and immediately above the apex there is a carved stone with two figures greeting each other, supposedly St Moling and St Fiachra (Harbison 1970 (Reprint 1992), 206). The nave is lit by two single-light windows set into round-headed embrasures in the S wall. The most westerly window is broken out, though some of the externally rebated jambs survive, the easterly window is triangular-headed with external rebate and a plain architrave in relief, it also has a stone immediately above the apex which may be carved. Internally two large corbels project out from the W end of this wall just below window level. Another corbel is found in a corresponding position in the N wall. There is a two-period chancel arch (T 0.95m) separating the chancel from the nave. The original outermost arch (H c. 5m; Wth 5.3m) has a pointed head of thin wedge-shaped pieces of shale which is a later insertion. The original jambs are decorated with a vertical roll-moulding, while the N impost is decorated with a scrolled foliage motif and its S counterpart with chevron, though both are obscured by later masonry. This arch was partially infilled and a smaller crude round arch (H 2.65m; Wth 3.5m) of voussoirs set on edge springing from plain projecting imposts was inserted in the later medieval period.  The chancel was originally narrower externally, the original quoins of the E end of the nave are visible externally. On the N side the N wall of the chancel was rebuilt flush with the nave, with the addition of a high relieving arch to provide additional structural support for this wall. The W end of this wall, which is leaning outward, is further supported by two stone buttresses. The E end of the N wall may originally have projected out slightly beyond the chancel, but became flush when the external face of the chancel wall was rebuilt. A flat-headed single-light window in the E end of this wall provides light for an underground vaulted chamber which runs the width of the E end of the chancel. In the NE angle of the chancel there are the remains of a spiral stair, which was entered from a flat-headed doorway in the chancel. The wall in the internal NE angle is broken out, but enough remains to suggest that it formed a squinch, above doorway level, to accommodate the intra-mural stair. It is likely that the masonry at this angle, which no longer survives, formed an angle belfry for the sanctus bell. The belfry probably also provided access to a walk-walk along the E wall, the parapet of which does not survive. The E gable is supported internally on a corbel table. The SE angle quoins of the nave are visible above a later external stone buttress. The S wall of the chancel, which was also probably rebuilt to be almost flush with the external wall of the nave, is largely featureless, apart from a few put-log holes and a crude flat-headed single-light window just above ground level towards the E end which, like its counterpart in the N wall, provides light for the underground chamber beneath the chancel. The chancel is lit by a two-light, cut limestone, cusped ogee-headed window in the E gable. It is set into an embrasure with a wide splay and depressed head. Roughly mid-way along the S wall there are the remains of a window, only the W jambs of the embrasure of which survive. The walling E of this embrasure is disturbed and had been repaired, including a reused architectural fragment. At the E end of the S wall there is an ogee-headed piscina with shallow rectangular bowl and beside it is a round-headed sedillia. Both are housed within semi-circular-arched masonry which projects into the chancel. The top of this projection slopes upward to meet the S wall. Immediately W of this projection there is an inserted stone entrance feature, containing a W-facing doorway giving access to 7 steps (Wth 0.66m) which lead down into the underground vaulted chamber. This chamber is integral to the build, as it compensates for the steep natural fall of the slope, enabling the chancel to be on the same level as the nave (ibid.). At the W end of the S wall of the chancel there are indications of a blocked up doorway, though only some voussoirs and some possible jamb stones survive. It is possible that this doorway led into an external sacristy. Mid-way along the N wall there is an aumbry (Wth 0.63m; D 0.35m; H 0.45m). The vaulted underground chamber (1.97m E-W x 5.1m N-S; H 1.69m) was used as a crypt, though it is has been suggested that it also functioned as a sacristy. There are three recesses in this chamber, one in the NE angle (Wth 0.72m; D 0.85m; H 0.56m), one in the E wall (Wth 1.59m; D 1.22m; H 0.23m)which in 1839 contained some bones (Vigors 1893, 254) and one in the S wall (Wth 0.85m; D 0.71m; H 0.59m). According to O’Leary (1948, 23), ‘the Eustace family, formerly residents of Ballamurrough House, were buried in the floor of this crypt’. (National Monument No. 78) See attached photographs: KK025-038001-_01 W gable and N wall - exterior KK025-038001-_02 S wall - exterior KK025-038001-_03 W doorway - exterior KK025-038001-_04 Window in W gable - exterior KK025-038001-_05 Easternmost window in S wall of nave - exterior KK025-038001-_06 Chancel arch from W towards chancel KK025-038001-_07 Detail of SW angle of chancel arch KK025-038001-_08 S wall of chancel - interior KK025-038001-_09 E gable - interior KK025-038001-_10 E end of S wall of chancel - interior Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 February 2017

• KK025-038002 Cross - High cross
  Description

  In the graveyard of Ullard 12th-century church (KK025-038001-) and graveyard (KK025-038009-), located immediately SE of a handball alley which was built onto the E end of the church. The church is dedicated to St Fiachra, who according to tradition founded it in the latter part of the 6th-century (Vigors 1893, 257). Three separate fragments of a granite cross, a cross base, a cross-head (H 1.54m; Wth 1.25m) with the top of the shaft (Wth 0.35m; T 0.29m) and the lower part of a cross-shaft (H 0.93m; Wth 0.45m; T 0.36m), have been mounted together to form this high cross. The middle portion of the shaft is formed from modern cement. Though currently facing SE-NW, Harbison (1992, 183-4) describes the SE face as E and the NW face as W. As described by Harbison, the cross-head has an imperforate ring, with slender roll-mouldings around the edges of both the cross and ring. The head narrows in thickness towards the top. The E and W facing segments of the ring were probably decorated but most this is worn, apart from spiral ornament on the lower left-hand segment on the E face. The sides of the cross are not decorated, nor is the cross base, apart from the E face. The E face of the cross base is divided into three horizontal bands. Both upper two bands are divided into two panels, these are quite worn, though interlace decoration is discernible. The lower band is divided into three panels, the left has a knot of interlace, the centre has four interlinked knots of interlace and the right has a four-legged spiral with ‘nail-head’ in-fills. The lowest panel on the E face of the shaft is decorated with six figures, presumably Apostles, shown frontally three over three. The E face of the cross head is centrally decorated with the Crucifixion, a large figure of Christ with arms outstretched, with two smaller figures beneath the arms, representing Longinus on the left, piercing Christ’s armpit with an upright lance and Stephaton, on the right, offering vinegar at the end of a pole. There is an angel above each of Christ’s shoulders. The uppermost cross arm has a panel with two figures, one possibly holding a sword and the other a shield, interpreted as David and Goliath. The S arm has a panel with a figure, David, on a chair playing a harp which rests on his knee. The N arm has a panel depicting Abraham holding up his sword over Isaac who is crouching on an altar. The lower arm has a panel showing Adam and Eve facing each other with an arm outstretched, probably exchanging an apple from the apple tree between them, its fruit laden branches spreading out over each figure. The central panel on the W face is very worn. Harbison describes two figures seated opposite each other and suggests these may be Paul and Anthony holding the bread between them with, possibly, a bird flying above them. The uppermost cross arm has a panel depicting three figures, two upright with a third upside-down between them. There have been several suggested interpretations for this panel including The Slaughter of the Innocents, The Judgement of Solomon and Saints Paul and Anthony overcoming the devil in human form or one or other of these saints being held upside-down by demons. The S arm depicts The Temptation of St Anthony, the saint being shown in the centre flanked on each side by a demon with a human body and animal head. The panel on the N arm depicts two figures, the rightmost figure appears to be thrusting a long stick into the head of the other figure. (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 183-4; vol. 2, figs, 642-4). See attached photographs: KK025-038002-_01 View of S side and E face KK025-038002-_02 View of N side KK025-038002-_03 E face of cross head KK025-038002-_04 Cross base – E face KK025-038002-_05 Panel at base of cross shaft – E face Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 February 2017

• KK025-038003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In the field immediately NW of the medieval church of Ullard (KK025-038001-) on an E-facing slope, in pasture. The holy well 70m to the NNW of the church. There are two bullaun stones (KK025-038006-; KK025-038008-) 21m and 19m to the SSE and S respectively. The well is dedicated to St Fiachra, who according to tradition founded a church here in the latter part of the 6th-century (Vigors 1893, 257). According to Vigors (ibid., 258), the water from this well reputedly had the power to prevent death by drowning. According to O’Leary (1948, 25), "On the 8th of February [the saint’s feast day] many of the people, old and young, still make their penitential rounds at the Holy Well and perform their devotions at the church, where they finish by placing crosses of twig in the east window in honour of St. Fiachra." Seldom less than 30, and this year 1948, sixty pilgrims made their rounds, 'speaking to no one, only to God and poor St. Feeragh," as one old pilgrim puts it'. The holy well is located at the SW end of a long, rectangular, stone-lined channel (L 11.2m; Wth 1.6m) aligned NE-SW. The holy well, which contains the spring, is a circular, stone-lined structure (D 1.14m; diam. 1.10m; T 0.16m; diam. of hole 0.12m), covered with a flat rectangular slab. A millstone (diam. 0.8m, 0.4m of which projects northward from the retaining wall) has been built into the S side of the well opening, where it functions as a step down to the water. See attached photographs: KK025-038003-_01 Well from NE with bullaun stone (KK025-038008-) and church (KK025-038001-) in background KK025-038003-_02 Reused millstone on S side of retaining wall of well Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 February 2017

• KK025-038004 Font
  Description

  According to O'Leary (1948, 24), a font from the medieval church at Ullard (KK025-038001-) was removed in 1814 and brought to the Cistercian abbey (KK029-018001-) at Graiguenamanagh (see KK029-018013- font – present location), which lies 4.5km S of Ullard. It is described as, 'a large octagonal granite font with carved figures and ornaments in the Celtic style. Unfortunately those who wanted everything to be new in their restored Abbey Church chiselled them off' (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 February 2017

• KK025-038006 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In the field immediately NW of the medieval church of Ullard (KK025-038001-) on an E-facing slope, in pasture. The church is c. 50m to the S, a holy well 21m to the NNW and another bullaun stone (KK025-038008-) lies 12m to the W. The church and holy well are dedicated to St Fiachra, who according to tradition founded a church here in the latter part of the 6th-century (Vigors 1893, 257). The bullaun stone (L 1.45m; max Wth 0.07m narrowing to 0.52m) lies embedded in the ground and has two basins, one oval (dims. 0.28m x 0.22m) and the other sub-circular (dims. 0.16m x 0.18m), both approx. 0.1m deep. When visited in 1994 there was a hawthorn tree beside the bullaun but this is no longer there. See attached photographs: KK025-038006-_01 bullaun (KK025-038006-) to left, bullaun (KK025-038008-) to the right and church (KK025-0380081-) in background. KK025-038006-_02 bullaun Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 February 2017

• KK025-038008 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In the field immediately NW of the medieval church of Ullard (KK025-038001-) on an E-facing slope, in pasture. The church is c. 52m to the S, a holy well 19m to the N and another bullaun stone (KK025-038006-) lies 12m to the E. The church and holy well are dedicated to St Fiachra, who according to tradition founded a church here in the latter part of the 6th-century (Vigors 1893, 257). The bullaun stone (H 1m; Wth 1.8m narrowing to 0.66m; L 1.72m) is a very large triangular granite boulder with a single basin in its upper surface (dims. 0.33m x 0.28m; D 0.30m). When visited in 1994 it was overhung by two hawthorn trees, which are now no longer there. See attached photographs: KK025-038008-_01 bullaun (KK025-038006-) to left, bullaun (KK025-038008-) to the right and church (KK025-0380081-) in background KK025-038008-_02 bullaun Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 February 2017

• KK025-038009 Graveyard
  Description

  Just below the brow of an E-facing slope, surrounded by pasture. The medieval church (KK025-038009-) of Ullard occupies much of the centre of the graveyard. A handball alley, which appears to be indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. 6-inch OS map, was built onto the E end of the church, occupying most of the graveyard E of the church. There is a high cross (KK025-038002-) immediately SE of the handball alley and a cross-slab (KK025-038011-) within the graveyard S of the W end of the church. The graveyard, enclosed by a stone wall composed of rough granite boulders, is roughly rectangular in shape (dims. c. 50m NE-SW), it is widest at the SW end (Wth c. 31m), tapering towards the NE (Wth c. 15m). Most of the headstones in the graveyard, which date from the 18th century onwards, are located S and W of the church. The graveyard is still used for burials. Outside the graveyard there are two bullaun stones (KK025-038006-; KK025-038008-) 50m to N and 52m to the NNW respectively and a holy well (KK025-038003-) 70m to the N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 February 2017

• KK025-038011 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated 10m S of the west gable of the church (KK025-038001-) at Ullard. A granite cross-slab (L 0.65m; Wth at top 0.26m; Wth at base 0.23m; T 0.05m) re-used as a gravemarker. A cross in relief extends down the centre with slightly wider, slightly detached horizontal arms towards the top extending the full width of the stone. A raised arc forms the top of the stone while below the arms two diagonal bands extend from the shaft to the edges. Features on the shaft that seem to represent a human figure may be the result of weathering. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Ullard House, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c.1800, on a symmetrical plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, 1690, on site with single-bay two-storey central return to south. Refenestrated, c.1900. Part refenestrated. Hipped slate roof (pitched to return; gabled to dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, timber bargeboards to gables, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with rendered strips to corners, rendered band to eaves, and unpainted rendered walls to rear (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings (camber-headed window openings to first floor rear (south) elevation) with cut-limestone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1900, having some replacement uPVC casement windows to rear (south) elevation. Round-headed door opening with four cut-granite steps, cut-granite block-and-start surround, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Detached four-bay two-storey outbuilding, pre-1840, to south-east with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered squared limestone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with cast-iron tie plates. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings (including to first floor) with timber lintels, and remains of timber fittings. Square-headed carriageway to left ground floor with timber lintel, and remains of timber fittings.

• Ullard Church, church/chapel, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, c.1800, with single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. In ruins, 1903. Extensively renovated, post-2002, to accommodate residential use. Pitched roof with replacement slate, post-2002, decorative clay ridge tiles, and replacement iron rainwater goods, post-2002, on cut-granite eaves having timber eaves board. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Coursed squared rubble granite walls with cut-granite dressings including engaged octagonal corner piers to nave having profiled capping, stringcourse to top (bell) stage to tower, and coping to parapet having corner finials. Pointed-arch window openings (including to tower) with cut-granite sills (forming stringcourse to top (bell) stage to tower), red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows, post-2002. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, post-2002, having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with rubble granite boundary wall having cut-granite chamfered coping supporting decorative iron railings, and square-profiled piers supporting decorative iron double gates.

• Ullard School, school, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey school, c.1825, with single-bay single-storey gabled flanking entrance end bays. Decommissioned, pre-1903. In use as pair of semi-detached single-bay single-storey houses, 1973. Now disused. Hipped slate roof (gabled to end bays) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered surrounds to gables. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement in elliptical-headed recesses with cut-limestone sills, and four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings in round-headed recesses with cut-granite surrounds, and timber doors. Set back from line of road in own grounds with overgrown grounds to site.

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 5 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 Ullard.

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

Name

Ullard · Iolard

Area

2,585,814 m² (258.58 ha, 638.97 acres)

Civil parish

Ullard, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Ullard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ullard electoral division: 307 people in 107 households; 81% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurragh, Ballynagrane (Co. Carlow), Borris (Co. Carlow), Cloghasty North, Cournellan (Co. Carlow), Knockbarron North, Milltown, Tiroe

Placenames

Ullard 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.