Keatingstown
Keatingstown is a townland in the civil parish of St. Canice, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Baile Chéitinn.
Parcel 2401019
- Area
- 3,225 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 163 m².
- 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
- Keatingstown
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2166 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 296.1 ha
- 732 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 4,536 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keatingstown, from 158 m² to 613,957 m² (61.4 ha, 151.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 49 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Keatingstown 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
17 Aug 2025Conditional
to construct a new two storey dwelling house, new two storey detached garage, new vehicular site entrance, new proprietary sewage treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560529
14 Mar 2025Refused
for 1.The construction of a detached storey and a half style dwelling and the construction of a detached single storey domestic garage. 2. The installation of an approved wastewater treatment system and a percolation area, to all appropriate standards. 3. The construction of a site entrance, driveway, parking areas, soakpits, water well, footpaths and hard landscaping areas. 4. The landscaping of the site consisting of new grass areas, planting beds, trees, hedging and shrubbery and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560123
6 Oct 2023Refused
to construct a single-storey dwelling house with roof terrace, new effluent treatment system, new site entrance, bored well and all associated site development works. This application will also include for the demolition of existing sub-standard sheds and a derelict dwelling house (in-ruin)
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360445
2 Oct 2023N/a
TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ROOF TERRACE, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360435
1 Aug 2023Refused
for a single storey dwelling, new vehicular site entrance, soakpits, and all other associated site development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360351
21 Jul 2023Conditional
for the extension of the operational lifespan of a solar farm permitted by Kilkenny County Council under Planning Ref. 16634 from 25 No. years as permitted (by reason of condition No. 1 (iii) of permission 16634) to 40 No. years.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360329
21 Jul 2023Conditional
for the replacement of a permitted single storey terminal electrical station and separate permitted electrical switchroom (both previously permitted as part of a solar farm permission by Kilkenny County Council under Reg. Ref. 16/634) with 1 no. proposed single storey 20kV substation building on the site of the previously permitted terminal electrical station
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360334
23 Nov 2021Conditional
for the development consisting of the replacement of an existing 12m high support pole carrying associated antennae for a 24 metre high free standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dish, ground equipment, fencing and all associated development works. The development will continue to form part of existing 3G and 4G Broadband network.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21965
20 Feb 2019Conditional
for outbuilding to rear of premises and associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 1998
5 Sept 2018Conditional
for construction of a new single storey private dwelling, septic tank along with all site and ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18590
5 Apr 2018Conditional
to construct a two storey, three bedroom dwelling served by a new on-site waste water treatment and disposal system, a new mains water connection, an existing access/entrance from the public road, and garage with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18217
22 Nov 2017Conditional
for permission consequent on the Grant of Outline Permission (PL Ref no 16/418) to demolish an existing single storey habitable dwelling house and erect a new two storey dwelling and attached garage, upgraded vehicular entrance, access driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17771
29 Aug 2017Conditional
for demolition of existing single storey dwelling, construction of a new two storey replacement dwelling which will include a self-contained semi-detached family falt, provision of a new septic tank and percolation area, utilizing existing vehicular site entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17565
2 Jun 2017Refused
to construct a two storey, three bedroom dwelling served by a new on-site waste-water treatment and disposal system, a new mains water connection, an existing access/entrance from the public road, and garage with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17362
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 Keatingstown.
Recorded monuments
- KK014-108 Settlement cluster
Description
On the NE edge of a plateau looking down over a steep slope to the floor of the Nore river valley, in rolling grassland. According to local knowledge, 'roads and house foundations could be seen' in this field before being levelled c. 1947. On satellite imagery (Google Earth, 27 January 2019) two concentric slightly curving banks (L c. 160m; c. 20m apart) are visible. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 June 2020
- KK014-153 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A circular enclosure (diams. c. 35m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 April 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Keatingstown.
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 Keatingstown, about 1 in 20 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_2147 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Keatingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Keatingstown · Baile Chéitinn
- Area
- 2,960,703 m² (296.07 ha, 731.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Canice, and its townlands
- Barony
- Crannagh
- Electoral division
- St. Canice, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 607 people lived in 197 households in the St. Canice electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bishopsfurze, Bonnetstown, Burntfurze, Coolgrange, Deerpark, Dunningstown, Killaree, Naglesland, Simonsland, Troyswood
- Placenames
- Keatingstown 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.