Church Hill

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Church Hill, from 213 m² to 256,974 m² (25.7 ha, 63.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Church Hill 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.

• 19 Jun 2026N/a

  for a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, borehole, soakpits and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660385

• 23 Mar 2025N/a

  to construct slatted shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560141

• 24 Jan 2024Conditional

  for the development as outlined below. The proposed development will consist of: a single storey extension to the side of the existing school building to include the following: Two classroom SEN Base including ancillary learning and support spaces one mainstream classroom, 1 resource room, 1 office Secure external play areas and a sensory garden off the SEN classroom bases. Minor internal and elevational alterations to existing building to accommodate the new extension along with two new rooflights. New staff and dedicated S.E.N. parking area New replacement ballcourt Temporary vehicular entrance for construction access via adjacent agricultural laneway. Removal of existing prefabricated buildings upon completion of the extension. All associated site development and ancillary works. The original school building on the site is listed on the NIAH Ref. 12402315

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460030

• 8 Jan 2024Conditional

  for a new two storey five bedroom dwelling, single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system, new residential site entrance, new replacement agricultural access, plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460006

• 12 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the construction of an organic produce storage shed with concrete apron, an animal house with ancillary underground slurry storage tank, straw bed and calf creep area with covered feed passage and concrete apron and four (no. 4) low intensity poultry houses

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 23212

• 3 Jul 2023N/a

  for the following: (a) Redesign of House as Granted Permission P18 297 by (1) Fitting of 2 No. Dormer Windows in front pitch of cottage roof, and (2) Relocation of Velux Windows to rear pitch of cottage roof. (b) New front boundary wall consisting of block wall mounted Wrought Iron Fencing with vehicular gate and personnel gate. (c) Retention of Demolition of original cottage (d) Associated Works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 23168

• 30 Sept 2022Refused

  to build a two storey dwelling house, garage, new entrance, private bore well, wastewater effluent treatment system and a raised bed polishing filter and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22648

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  for replacement dwelling at site to include the following : 1. To demolish existing two storey dwelling. 2. To construct a new two storey dwelling house. 3. To construct a new single storey detached stables. 4. Provision of a new treatment plant and percolation area. 5. New bore hole well. 6. Adjusted vehicular site entrance. 7. All associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22615

• 17 Aug 2022Refused

  to construct a combined single storey and 1 & 1/2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22533

• 29 Jul 2022Refused

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22496

• 27 Jan 2022Refused

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2248

• 21 Nov 2019Conditional

  to construct a 1 & 1/2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19870

• 20 Jun 2019Refused

  to construct a 1 & 1/2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19430

• 30 Oct 2018Conditional

  Retention permission is hereby sought for vehicular entrance as located and permission for completion works and all associated works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18722

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dormer style dwelling, detached garage, onsite effluent treatment system, new entrance and all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18711

• 22 Jun 2018Conditional

  to install new septic tank and percolation area and permission to convert double height space to usable floor area in extension under construction (exempt development) to create a first floor bathroom and installation of 2 new windows to gable wall of existing dwelling and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18421

• 15 Aug 2017Conditional

  for the following: (A) Installation of domestic waster treatment and disposal system, (B) Associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17534

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 Church Hill.

Recorded monuments

• KK023-036001 Church
  Description

  On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the medieval church (KK023-036001-) is indicated as ‘Site of Church’ towards the W end of a triangular-shaped graveyard (KK023-036002-). A R.C. chapel is indicated on the 1st ed. map immediately N of the graveyard. The OS Letters (1839) mention that there is, ‘scarcely any trace of a Church tho’ a good part of the walls were up twelve years ago, when it was pulled down to built the R.C. chapel with the materials’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 269 (91)). According to Hogan (1880-83, vol. 2, 41-3) the church was dedicated to the Holy Cross, and he relates that, ‘not a stone of its once venerable church now remains upon another’, however, he goes on to provide more information, ‘Mr. James G. Robertson, architect, informs us that the present chapel of Grange was erected in the year 1826, and that the ruins of the old church stood in front of this new building on the avenue which now leads from the road to the front entrance of the chapel. The remains of the south wall of this old church formed the boundary between the avenue to the chapel door and the graveyard down to a few years since; its foundations are still traceable, and up against the exterior of this wall was erected, over two hundred and forty years since, by Madame Purcell, an altar tomb [KK023-036004-] in memory of her husband Richard Comerford, of Ballybur’. Robertson (1894, 193-4) describes how, the ‘present Catholic Church has a portion of the ancient church built up in the gable-end to road, in which I discovered a portion of the original doorway, and the stoup’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 396) in Grange, 'There was a chapel here in 1788, and, no doubt, long before. The present chapel was built in 1826, by the Rev. Edmond Kavanagh, P.P.'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 August 2021

• KK023-036002 Graveyard
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly triangular area (dims. c. 75m E-W; c. 30m N-S at the W end, narrowing to a point towards the E) with the public road running along the S side and a R.C. chapel immediately to the N. In the 1947 revision of the OS 6-inch map the graveyard has been extended to incorporate the R.C. chapel and subsequent mapping (OS online, viewed 9 August 2021) shows that the current graveyard has been extended again to the N. On the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map the medieval church (KK023-036001-) is indicated as ‘Site of Church’ towards the W end of the graveyard. The graveyard is described as, ‘a large burying ground’ in the OS Letters (1839) and there were, ‘Patrons held here till within the last twelve years on the first Sunday in May and the Sunday before Michaelmas Day’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 269 (91)). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 August 2021

• KK023-036003 Cross - Churchyard cross
  Description

  In Grange graveyard (KK023-036002-), associated with the medieval church (KK023-036001-). The limestone cross-base has been reused as a quoin stone in the NW angle of the RC church which was erected in the graveyard in 1826. Described by Hogan (1880-83, vol. 2, 41-2) as, ‘part of the base of a memorial cross – a block of lime-stone, about two feet [0.6m] square – and worked into the masonry as a quoin in the north-west angle of the present parish church. It stands about six feet [c. 1.8m] from the ground; two squares or faces of it are exposed, one uninscribed, the other bears an inscription, cut in relief. The following is a fac-simile of a rubbing taken by myself from the stone for the use of the present paper :- ….RICH ….. COMERFORD DE BALLIBVR EQVITIS ET DOMINAE MARIA PVRCELL VXORIS EIVS QVI HANC CRVCEM IN HONOREM ALMAE CEVCIS DNI NRI FIERI FECERVNT 20 IVLII [Pray for the souls of] Richard Comerford, of Ballybur [Knight], and of Mrs. Mary Purcell, his wife, who [both] had this cross erected in honour of the Holy Cross of our Lord, 20 July.” The left corner of the stone is broken off, and hence the word before Richard and the latter syllable of that name are absent; the words “pray, &c.,” within the brackets in the translation, are most probably the lost ones. The year of the erection is not on the stone, and, singular enough, the space for it was sunk down as if to show that this date was designedly obliterated; but an inscription on the tomb of this same Richard – to be noticed immediately – enables us to fix the date of the erection of this cross at some period between his marriage with Madame Purcell and that of his death, which took place in the year 1637’. The side walls of the church has a cement render and the inscribed plaque had been given a raised render surround. See attached photographs: KK023-036003-_01 Inscribed plaque KK023-036003-_02 Inscribed plaque inserted in external face of RC church wall Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 August 2021

• KK023-036004 Wall monument
  Description

  Formerly in the medieval church (KK023-036001-) of Grange which stood within the graveyard (KK023-036002-). According to Hogan (1880-83, vol. 2, 43-4), the remains of the S wall of the medieval church, ‘formed the boundary between the avenue to the chapel door [present RC church] and the graveyard down to a few years since; its foundations are still traceable, and up against the exterior of this wall was erected, over two hundred and forty years since, by Madame Purcell, an altar tomb in memory of her husband Richard Comerford, of Ballybur. A large tree had been sown contiguous, and its roots so undermined the structure that the late Rev. Richard Walsh, C.C., who resided in the chapel house, for the purpose of saving it determined to cut down the tree; but in the operation the tree was allowed to fall on the monument, and it is now a heap of loose, but very carefully dressed and still uninjured cut stone. The monument was an altar tomb, of some architectural pretensions; its reredos was surmounted by an architrave and pediment, supported by detached pillars, resting on corbels or consols at each side, and between them, in the centre of the reredos, was an entablature resembling a gateway. This entablature is still perfect. It bears the following inscription, cut in incised Roman capitals: D.O.M. SACRVM Amoris mortisque monumentum RICHARDUS COMERFORD ARMIGER DOMINUS DE BALLIBVR VIR VERE PIVS PROBVS PRVDENS FORTIS VARIIS IN REPBCLICA MVNERIBVS PACE BELLOQUE SVMMA INTEGRITATE PERFENCTVS OBIIT 15 IVNII 1637 POSVIT RICHARDO MARITO SVO CHARISSIMO SIBI AC LIBERIS MARIA PVRCELL OBIIT MARIA PURCELL ---- DEFVNCTIS VIATOR BENE PRECARE. [Translation] – Sacred to God, most excellent, most mighty – A monument of love and death. Richard Comerford, Knight, Lord of ballybur, a truly pious, upright, prudent, valiant man, after filling in time of peace and war with strictest rectitude many public offices of trust, died on the 15th June, 1637. Mary Purcell erected this monument to her husband, Richard, who was most dearly beloved by herself and children. Mary Purcell died -----. O traveller! Of your goodness, pray for the departed.]’. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 391) refers to the wall monument as being, ‘now entirely broken down’ and he could not locate the inscribed slab described by Hogan. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 10 August 2021

• KK023-036005 Architectural feature
  Description

  Referring to the RC church at Grange, according to Robertson (1894, 193-4), the ‘present Catholic Church has a portion of the ancient church [KK023-036001-] built up in the gable-end to road, in which I discovered a portion of the original doorway, and the stoup’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 August 2021

• KK023-037 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a small enclosure and on the 1947 revision as a mound (dims. c. 23m N-S; c. 26m E-W). Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 391) as, 'A little to the south of the chapel [Grange RC church] is a green artificial mound known as the "Moat". It is in the townland of Church HIll, otherwise Cnoc A'Tempuill'. The size of this monument and Carrigan's description suggests this may be a barrow. There is an enclosure (KK023-038----) c. 110m to the SSW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 August 2021

• KK023-038 Enclosure
  Description

  A curvilinear cropmark, identified as the N-E-S fosse of an enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ADI081, 22 July 1963). A field boundary runs NNE-SSW through the W portion, near the edge, and another field boundary runs ESE from the former field boundary, through the S portion of the monument. A monument (KK023-037----), possibly a barrow, lies c. 110m to the NNE. See attached: KK023-038----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP ADI081, 22 July 1963) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 August 2021

• KK023-094 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  According to Hogan (1880-83, 41-4), ‘The well of the cross, or as it is more popularly called the “Patron Well,” springs from under a small stone-roofed apse on the north side of the road, between the village [Cuffesgrange] and the church [KK023-036001-]; it is now a neglected pool filled with sludge, but within the memory of many it was a neatly enclosed spring of pure fresh water. The two “patrons” were still continued to be observed at Grange down to a few years since. I have been informed that in the early part of the present century “May Sunday” was a gala day in that little village’. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 391) also mentions the ‘holy well of Grange’ and locates it to being, ‘on the roadside, between Grange village and the chapel’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 September 2021

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Holy Cross, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1826, on a rectangular plan; single-bay three-stage tower (west) on a square plan. "Improved", 1909, producing present composition. Renovated, ----, with interior reordered. Replacement pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, and cast aluminium rainwater goods on box eaves. Repointed tooled cut-limestone wall (east) on tooled cut-limestone plinth with abbreviated margined tooled cut-limestone clasping stepped buttresses to corners having lichen-spotted cut-limestone "slated" coping; rendered, ruled and lined walls (remainder) with rendered quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on ogee label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoils. Lancet window openings (west) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on ogee label stops framing nine-over-nine timber sash windows without horns having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening (east) with poured concrete ramp, margined tooled cut-limestone doorcase having colonette-detailed reveals with hood moulding on foliate label stops framing timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch window opening (gable) with cut-limestone interlocking Y-mullions, margined tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on foliate label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior reordered, ----. Set in landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping supporting crocketed cast-iron double gates.

• Church Hill National School, school, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey national school, built 1833, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey projecting breakfront with single-bay single-storey projecting lower porch. Extended, 1913, producing present composition. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (breakfront); hipped slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles with paired cone-topped vents to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings. Set in relandscaped grounds.

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 Church Hill, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Church Hill.

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 Church Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Church Hill · Cnoc an Teampaill

Area

1,065,497 m² (106.55 ha, 263.29 acres)

Civil parish

Grange, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 285 households in the Grange electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybur, Ballybur Lower, Ballybur Upper, Grange, Grangecuffe, Grove, Raheenduff

Placenames

Church Hill 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.