Springfield Lower

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springfield Lower, from 427 m² to 146,116 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Springfield Lower 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.

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  the proposed change of plans and elevations for the permitted development pl reg no 24138, consisting of 1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and refurbishment of existing single storey dwelling, also for the Partial Demolition and alterations to the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560954

• 9 Dec 2025N/a

  the proposed change of plan and elevations for the permitted development pl reg no 24138, consisting of 1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and refurbishment of existing single storey dwelling,

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560886

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  (1) Renovation and alteration works to existing farmyard cottages and outbuildings and the change of use of these buildings to ancillary residential space and a home office; and (2) variations to alterations permitted under planning permission reference no. 11/101 to an existing agricultural store and change of use of part of this building to ancillary residential space, all within the curtilage of the existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460524

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  to (i) demolish existing single storey rear extension (ii) construct new 1.5 storey extension at the rear of the existing single storey cottage. (iii) new recessed entrance. (iv) new wastewater treatment system & (v) all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 24138

• 19 Jun 2024N/a

  (1) to demolish existing single storey rear extension,(ii) construct new 1.5 storey extension at the rear of the existing single storey cottage (iii) new recessed entrance. (iv) new wastewater treatment system and (v) all associated site development works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 24133

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 Springfield Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springfield Lower.

Architectural heritage

• The Farmhouse, farm house, 1700–1841 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Hipped water reed thatch roof with grouped exposed stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stack having concrete capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered walls. Square-headed door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed roughcast piers to perimeter having segmental capping supporting timber double gates.

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 Springfield Lower, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1728 (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 Springfield Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Springfield Lower · Móin Chille Có Íochtarach

Area

371,793 m² (37.18 ha, 91.87 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

Glebe, Moord, Mortgage, Newtown, Prospecthall, Rath, Springfield Upper

Placenames

Springfield Lower 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.