Kilpatrick
Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cill Phádraig
- Area
- 197.3 ha
- 487 acres
- Land parcels
- 87
- registered freehold, median 8,056 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilpatrick, from 96 m² to 135,492 m² (13.55 ha, 33.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 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
No zone of a development plan covers Kilpatrick 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
20 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21652
18 Jul 2019Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19359
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 Kilpatrick.
Recorded monuments
- OF008-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise in undulating countryside with good views in all directions with three nearby ringforts (OF008-031/032/035) to the N. Barely discernible outline of a univallate ringfort (38m N-S; 37m E-W) which had an enclosing bank and external fosse which according to local information was levelled in 1989. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
- OF016-002 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Attempts have been made to refill the well with earth. Disused circular shaped well (diam 0.6m) covered with a piece of timber and lined with metal. The well has no water in it and measures 1.5m deep. A local farmer informed us that a small mound approx. 7.5m high was located to the N of the well, but it had been levelled several years ago. On the OS 6-inch map there is another Holy Well (OF016-003----) immediately to the E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
- OF016-003 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Not visible at ground level. No local knowledge of a holy well in the area, marked on all editions of the OS 6-inch map with second holy well immediately to the W (OF016-002----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted church, built c.1840, with three-bay side elevation to nave and extension to rear. Pitched tiled roof with sprocketed eaves, rendered chimneystack to extension, carved limestone cross finial to gable and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth with pebbledashed walls. Pointed-arched window openings with rendered reveals, timber Y-tracery windows and tooled stone sills to nave. Pointed-arched opening with timber traceried window, dressed stone surround, limestone sill and hoodmoulding to east gable. Pointed-arched door opening with dressed stone surround, hoodmoulding, replacement timber battened door and timber spoked fanlight. Timber pews to nave with balcony. Marble furniture to altar.
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 10 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_1826 (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 Kilpatrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Kilpatrick · Cill Phádraig
- Area
- 1,972,820 m² (197.28 ha, 487.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Bawn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bawn electoral division: 353 people in 116 households; 93% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina, Ballincloghan, Ballybruncullin, Cappaloughan, Castletown, Cornalaur, Deerpark, Goldsmithslot
- Placenames
- Kilpatrick 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.