Pilltown

151 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pilltown, from 12 m² to 235,974 m² (23.6 ha, 58.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4RV (Built up area)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 52 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 May 2026Conditional

  (i) dwelling house as constructed (ii) extension for storage to rear and side of workshop and (iii) two vehicular entrance as constructed at property

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660293

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  Extension of Duration Ref. 15/549 for the renovation of existing derelict mill, change of use to dwelling new waste water treatment system, domestic garage and associated external works

  Extension of duration · Waterford City and County Council, 21257

• 27 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct domestic garage/shed at rear of existing dwelling and auxiliary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18578

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct single storey dwelling, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and auxiliary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18384

• 3 Oct 2017Conditional

  to amalgamate two existing small classrooms within the original building by removal of the dividing wall and chimney, reconfiguration of the existing internal layout extension of the existing staff room, construction of a new classroom extension with link corridor, construction of new access ramp and steps to the main entrance, new vehicular entrance to new on-site carparking area together with associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 17710

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Blackwater Estuary SPA 004028
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary 000072

Recorded monuments

• WA037-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the crest of an E and S-facing slope. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.2m) at W and S, with a slight bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) at E. There is no visible fosse or entrance. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-029 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Situated on low-lying ground on the N bank of a NE-SW stream at a point where it emerges onto mud-flats and c. 1.5 km E of the estuary of the Blackwater River. The name is derived from Ceann tSaile - the head of the tide (Power 1952, 95). Kinsalebeg was the only part of the manor of Inchiquin in Co. Waterford, most of it being in Cork. Possession of Inchiquin was frequently disputed, and an inquistion in 1348 suggests that Kinsalebeg may have had as many as 24 burgesses (O'Brien 1982, 23, map), establishing its status as a town. A ferry operated to Youghal, which was an essential communication link until Youghal bridge was built in 1830 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 726). It is uncertain if the settlement survived beyond 1400, and possession swayed between the earls of Ormond and Desmond in the later middle ages. The location is uncertain but it probably centered on the castle and mill at Pilltown. The former is described as an 'old battered castle' with a large bawn in the Civil Survey (1654-6) which had been the property of Sir Nicholas Walsh of Ballykeeroge (WA023-035001-) in 1641, but had been mortaged to the Earl of Cork by the 1650s (Simington 1942, 30). The mill was worth £10 in a good year (ibid.). Only six inhabitants are retuned for Kinsalebeg in the 1659, and 59 for Pilltown (Pender 1939, 333), so it was effectively deserted. (Bradley et al. 1988, 60-5) Bradley, J., Halpin, A. and King, H. (1989) Urban archaeology Survey of Waterford City and County, 2 vols. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works. Lewis, S. (1837) A topographical dictionary of Ireland. 2 vols. Lewis and Co. London. O’Brien, A. F. (1982) The settlement of Imokilly and the formation and descent of the manor or Inchiquin, Co. Cork. JCHAS, 87, 21-6. Pender, S. (1939) A census of Ireland c. 1659. Stationary Office. Dublin. Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-029001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The location of Kilsalebeg is uncertain but it probably centered on the castle and mill at Pilltown, situated on relatively high overgrown land on the N bank of a NE-SW stream at a point where it emerges onto mud-flats and c. 1.5 km E of the estuary of the Blackwater River. Described as ‘an old battered castle with a large bawn’, the property of Sir Nicholas Walshe of Ballykeeroge (WA023-035001-) in 1640 (Simington 1942, 29). Nothing is visible at ground level. (Bradley et al. 1988, 60-5) Bradley, J., Halpin, A. and King, H. (1989) Urban archaeology Survey of Waterford City and County, 2 vols. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-029002 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  The location of Kilsalebeg settlement is uncertain but it probably centered on the castle and mill at Pilltown, situated on relatively hisgh overgrown land on the N bank of a NE-SW stream at a point where it emerges onto mud-flats and c. 1.5 km E of the estuary of the Blackwater River. A mill, 'worth £10 in a good year' was the property of Sir Nicholas Walshe of Ballykeeroge (WA023-035001-) in 1640 (Simington 1942, 29). The mill remains date entirely to the 18th or 19th century. Archaeological testing (07E0099) in its vicinity produced one pit (Tierney 2010b). (Bradley et al. 1988, 60-5) Bradley, J., Halpin, A. and King, H. (1989) Urban archaeology Survey of Waterford City and County, 2 vols. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works. Tierney, J. (2010b) Pilltown mill. Pillotwn. in Bennett (2010) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, P 519, No. 1836. Wordwell, Dublin. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-030001 Church
  Description

  This is the site of a post-Penal Roman Catholic church, not the medieval parish church of Kinsalebeg, which is in Prospecthill (WA040A001001-). A modern Catholic church has been built on the site since 1989. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-030002 Graveyard
  Description

  This is the rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 65m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) attached to a post-Penal Roman Catholic church, which has been expanded to the W (dims. c. 120m ENE-WSW; c. 40m NNW-SSE). The graveyard attached to the medieval parish church of Kinsalebeg is in Prospecthill (WA040A001002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 October 2011

• WA037-054 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located in a low-lying landscape with a N-S stream c. 40m to the W and an E-W stream c. 100m to the N. It was excavated (E3569) as the W part of Area 5 during 2006 on the N side of the existing road as part of the N25 road re-alignment scheme. Four adjacent pits were excavated. One (diam. 0.7m; D 0.15) contained some flints. Immediately to the S a second pit (diam. diam. 0.75m; D 0.2m) contained no artefacts, but the third oval pit (dims 0.85m N-S; 0.6m E-W; D 0.16m) was 1.6m to the W, and contained silty clay with charcoal flecks, flint debitage, and a sherd of a Neolithic carinated bowl. Just to its S a fourth pit (dims. 0.8m x 0.6m; D 0.2m) also had flint debitage, but also produced a C14 date of cal BC 1952-1745. (Hegarty 2007c, 7-8, 10) Hegarty, L. (2007c) N25 Kilsalebeg Realignment. Final report on archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in the townlands of Shancoole and Pillotown, Co. Waterford. Headland Archaeology Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-055 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located in a low-lying landscape with an E-W stream c. 90m to the E and N. It was excavated (E3569) as the E part of Area 5 during 2006 on the N side of the existing road as part of the N25 road re-alignment scheme. It consisted of an irregular linear trench (dims. c. 3.3m NW-SE; c. 0.85m NE-SW; max. D 0.5m) filled with charcoal-flecked clay that produced a C14 date of cal. BC 2883-2621. Some smaller pits were cut into this fill, and some flint debitage was recovered. (Hegarty 2007c, 8-9) Hegarty, L. (2007c) N25 Kilsalebeg Realignment. Final report on archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in the townlands of Shancoole and Pillotown, Co. Waterford. Licence: E3569. Unpublished report. Headland Archaeology Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-058 Habitation site
  Description

  Situated on level, low-lying land associated with the mud-flats of an inlet on the E side fo the estuary of the Blackwater river. Archaeological testing and excavation (05E0594) uncovered three areas of archaeological deposits suggestive of prehistoric activity. (Doolan and Tierney 2005; Tierney 2008l) Doolan, A. and Tierney, J. (2005) Archaeological test excavation report, Kinsalebeg, Piltown, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. Authors. Tierney, J. (2008l) Kinsalebeg. Possible clay extraction pits. In Bennett (2008) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, P 364, No. 1498. Wordwell, Dublin.. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-060 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. The enclosure is not indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map or subsequent revision, however a curvilinear field boundary, curving from W-N-NE, probably indicates the surviving upstanding bank which has become incorporated in a field boundary.  A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 46m) visible on LiDAR imagery (Open Topographic Data View, LiDAR Coverage TII Ireland), identified and reported by Muiris Wade. A field boundary, probably incorporating the bank of the enclosure, survives from W-N-NE.  The E-SE-S portion of the bank is defined by a levelled bank or scarp, visible on satellite imagery (Tailte Éireann, 2013 to 2018 MapGenie and 2011-2013 Digital Globe).   Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Architectural heritage

• House, 1700–1841 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan; three-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped (south) and pitched (north) water reed thatched roof with exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack (north) having stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposes sash boxes. Set in own grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted rendered rounded capping supporting tubular mild steel "farm gate".

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 Pilltown, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1727 (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.

No address of the register names Pilltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Pilltown · Baile an Phoill

Area

1,376,891 m² (137.69 ha, 340.24 acres)

Civil parish

Kinsalebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Within Drum

Electoral division

Kinsalebeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

616 people lived in 229 households in the Kinsalebeg electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garrananaspick, Glistinane, Knocknageragh or Summerhill, Moord, Rath, Shanacoole, Toberagoole

Placenames

Pilltown 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.