Kilnafrehan East

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnafrehan East, from 155 m² to 333,842 m² (33.38 ha, 82.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Kilnafrehan East 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.

• 27 Jan 2026Conditional

  Construction of a single storey dwelling and garage with entrance, driveway, borehole, domestic sewage treatment plant and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660042

• 22 Jan 2026N/a

  Construction of a single storey dwelling and garage with entrance, driveway, borehole, domestic sewage treatment plant and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660034

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  to retain the existing shower and toilet buildings on site,and PERMISSION to erect a studio building and one new glamping pod and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560919

• 12 Dec 2025N/a

  RETENTION is sought to retain the existing shower and toilet buildings on site and PLANNING PERMISSION to erect a studio building and one new glamping pod, and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560900

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  Section 254 Licence for 1. Erection of new over ground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles. 2. Erection of new poles and associated fibre cables. MRL 2023WD0896

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23333

• 29 Apr 2020Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage, upgrading of existing boreen access, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, borewell and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20246

• 23 Jan 2020Refused

  a dwelling house, garage, upgrading of existing boreen access, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, borewell and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2031

• 4 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct new cubicle shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 19651

• 12 Oct 2018Conditional

  an amendment to the site layout permissioned under PD18/249 to provide 12 no. campervan bays and 6 no. glamping pods, change of design of the proposed shower facility from that permissioned under PD18/249, to incorporate a plant room and kitchen area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18694

• 13 Apr 2018Conditional

  a seasonal campervan parking and camping facility to cater for up to 20 units, peak season, on site surfaced track to access parking spaces, splayed entrance, waste water disposal and refuse area, convert existing shed to a communal rest room, provide a portacabin for use as toilet and shower area, install a septic tank and integrated constructed wetlands to treat waste water and landscaping. Permission is also sought to retain the mobile home on site for a period of two years, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18249

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct single-storey extension, (consisting of granny flat) onto side of existing dwelling and auxiliary site services

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 17256

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 Kilnafrehan East.

Recorded monuments

• WA023-048 Church
  Description

  Situated on the N bank of a small W-E stream in pasture. There is local tradition of a church at Kilnafrehan (Power 1952, 145). The location of the site is still known, but nothing is visible at ground level. Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

• WA023-070 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on a shelf on the S bank of the NW-SE Glendine river, c. 50m from the stream. It was discovered c. 1970 but not recorded at that time. It is described locally as a lintelled passage (L c. 7m; Wth c. 0.6m; H c. 1.2m) extending N-S. The site was backfilled but some roof lintels are still visible. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 6th May, 2011.

• WA031-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 1-1.5m) NNE-SE which is curtailed by a NE-SW field bank at NW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.8-1.2m) elsewhere. An entrance (Wth 1.5m) at E might not be original and only slight traces of an outer fosse survive. A rath (WA031-011----) is immediately adjacent to the SW. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

• WA031-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.5-1.2m; ext. H 1-1.7m) with internal (NW-SE) and external (NW-NE) stone-facing. An entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SE might not be original, and there is no visible fosse. A rath (WA031-010----) is immedately adjacent to the NE. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilnafrehan East.

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 Kilnafrehan East, 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

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.

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

Name

Kilnafrehan East · Cill na bhFraochán Thoir

Area

1,103,935 m² (110.39 ha, 272.79 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

Balleighteragh East, Kilnafrehan Middle, Kilnafrehanmountain, Monarud, Monarudmountain

Placenames

Kilnafrehan East 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.