Kilkenny Lanesborough

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkenny Lanesborough, from 4,201 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) to 377,827 m² (37.78 ha, 93.36 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilkenny Lanesborough 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.

• 28 Sept 2026N/a

  change of use of an existing 3 bedroom private dwelling into a single 3 bedroom guesthouse with works to include: Ground floor extensions to the rear and side of the existing building with new first floor dormer windows on both sides and all associated internal and external alterations; for the decommissioning of an existing septic tank and provision of a new wastewater treatment system; and all associated site development works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660522

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  construction of a single storey extension to the side and a storey and a half extension to the rear of an existing dwelling with internal and external alterations; for the partial demolition of the remains of an existing outbuilding; for the decommissioning of an existing septic tank and percolation area and the provision of a replacement wastewater treatment system and percolation area; for the provision of a new vehicular entrance and removal of an existing entrance; for the relocation of an existing agricultural barn structure; for a new private well; and all associated site development works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of a protected structure (RPS No.023-007)

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560605

• 14 Nov 2025N/a

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side and a storey and a half extension to the rear of an existing dwelling with internal and external alterations; for the partial demolition of the remains of an existing outbuilding; for the decommissioning of an existing septic tank and percolation area and the provision of a replacement wastewater treatment system and attenuation layer; for the provision of a new vehicular entrance and removal of an existing entrance; for the relocation of an existing agricultural barn structure; for a new private well; and all associated site development works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560561

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilkenny Lanesborough.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a steep knoll, with panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted as an irregular-shaped woodland plantation on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map with Ordnance Survey Trig. Station in centre of woodland marking the OD 338 ft.. Monument described in 1982 as a ringfort that was reused as a designed landscape feature in the 18th century. Site consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. 25m) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with no trace of an external fosse. The interior is flat and has a circular-shaped stone pillar (approx. H 5m) within the centre which is annotated ‘Lows Folly’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan Map. Halfway up the pillar there is a rectangular-shaped plaque with an inscription which reads 'this pier erected 1769'. 'Pillar' described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as following; 'Freestanding pillar/monument/folly on circular plan and c. five metres in height, dated 1769. Built in rubble limestone with projecting cut stone band at a high level and a shallow domed rubble limestone cap over. Cut stone date stone incised '1769'. (www.buildingsofireland.ie: Reg. No. 15402318). The base of this hillock is enclosed by a low stone wall which forms a semi-circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 100m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Field boundary running NW-SE forming enclosing element of monument on SW side represents the townland boundary with Lisnascreen. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 24 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1885, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout, ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle, and a fluted ogee-dome cap with finial over. Set on concrete plinth to the side of a country road. Located to the east of the former Kilkenny West Rectory and to the east of Glassan.

• The Pinnacle, folly, 1765–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding pillar/monument/folly on circular plan and c. five metres in height, dated 1769. Built in rubble limestone with projecting cut stone band at a high level and a shallow domed rubble limestone cap over. Cut stone date stone incised ‘1769’. Located two miles to the east of Glassan on a hilltop with panoramic views over the local countryside.

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 Kilkenny Lanesborough, about 1 in 10 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 Kilkenny Lanesborough.

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

Name

Kilkenny Lanesborough

Area

497,544 m² (49.75 ha, 122.95 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkenny West, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Auburn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

785 people lived in 277 households in the Auburn electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Kilkenny Abbey, Kilkenny West, Lisnascreen, Rath, Tullaghan

Placenames

Kilkenny Lanesborough 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.