Kilnafrehan West
Kilnafrehan West is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgobnet, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Cill na bhFraochán Thiar.
Parcel 1550936
- Area
- 8,996 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilnafrehan West
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WA023-027 Enclosure
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but with the perimeter missing SE-SW (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1927 ed. The bank is incorporated into a stone-faced field boundary (Wth c. 2m; int. H 1-1.7m; ext. H 0.7-1.5m) with spoil accumulated against its inner edge SW-E. Elsewhere the perimeter has been removed (int. diam. 32m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30th July 2010.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1886 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 158.7 ha
- 392 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 13,390 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnafrehan West, from 146 m² to 170,357 m² (17.04 ha, 42.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilnafrehan West 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
26 Jun 2025Conditional
for construction of a new single storey dwelling, garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560444
12 Jun 2025N/a
construction of a new single storey dwelling , garage , site entrance , wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560414
16 May 2025N/a
for construction of a new single storey dwelling , garage , site entrance , wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560327
23 Aug 2024Conditional
Demolition of existing derelict cow kennels and silage pit and construction of a calf rearing shed in place of them and all associated siteworks
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460484
8 Aug 2024N/a
Demolition of existing derelict cow kennels and silage pit and construction of a calf rearing shed in place of them and all associated siteworks
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460455
31 Aug 2023Conditional
for a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, alterations to an existing roadside entrance, borewell and all other associated works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360399
2 Mar 2023Conditional
To construct a dormer dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater system, connection to mains water supply, soakpits and all other associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2370
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 Kilnafrehan West.
Recorded monuments
- WA023-027 Enclosure
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but with the perimeter missing SE-SW (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1927 ed. The bank is incorporated into a stone-faced field boundary (Wth c. 2m; int. H 1-1.7m; ext. H 0.7-1.5m) with spoil accumulated against its inner edge SW-E. Elsewhere the perimeter has been removed (int. diam. 32m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30th July 2010.
- WA031-008 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture at the W edge of a plateau, it is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 03-09-2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilnafrehan West.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kilnafrehan West, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilnafrehan West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilnafrehan West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Kilnafrehan West · Cill na bhFraochán Thiar
- Area
- 1,587,148 m² (158.71 ha, 392.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgobnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Bohadoon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 326 people lived in 110 households in the Bohadoon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknock Upper, Carrowncashlane, Kilnafrehan Middle, Kilnafrehanmountain, Knockaunagloon
- Placenames
- Kilnafrehan West 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.