Kilkenny
Townland in the civil parish of Breaghwy, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cill Chainnigh
- Area
- 36.7 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 110
- registered freehold, median 663 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkenny, from 14 m² to 48,221 m² (4.82 ha, 11.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 75 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation & Amenities (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Jul 2026N/a
Full Planning Permission for the construction of a new Retail Warehouse & Storage Building (total floor area = 1725.650m2), together with new internal access road & car parking area, boundary treatments, connection to all services and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660586
30 Jul 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Alterations to front and back door for wheelchair accessibility
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25302
4 Mar 2021Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21186
3 Mar 2021Conditional
CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION ALONG WITH EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21166
30 Jul 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ANY OTHER ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AS CONSTRUCTED, TOGETHER WITH REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18588
11 Apr 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF 3 NO. DETACHED HOUSES, TOGETHER WITH ACCESS ROAD, CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18244
22 Feb 2018N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF 3 NO. DETACHED HOUSES, TOGETHER WITH ACCESS ROAD, CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18118
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 Kilkenny.
Recorded monuments
- MA078-031001 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA078-031002 Souterrain
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA078-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilkenny.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_354 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilkenny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Kilkenny · Cill Chainnigh
- Area
- 366,794 m² (36.68 ha, 90.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Breaghwy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Breaghwy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Breaghwy electoral division: 1,964 people in 608 households; 87% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloor, Doogary, Drumaleheen, Drumconlan, Knockrawer, Rinshinna, Shanvally
- Placenames
- Kilkenny 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.