Dicksborough

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dicksborough, from 598 m² to 88,186 m² (8.82 ha, 21.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  for redesign of previously granted planning application 17364 to build a detached residence, domestic garage, install waste-water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21259

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a 2 storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, entrance from existing private driveway and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20717

• 25 Aug 2017Conditional

  to build a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, private well, effluent treatment system and raised pumped/pressurized percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17556

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  to build a 1.5 storey dwelling, domestic garage, construct entrance, install waste water sewerage treatment system including associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17364

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 Dicksborough.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On brow of a low hill, with a disused quarry running up to the W edge. There are good views from NW-N-E. A small, circular area (int. diam. 26m) enclosed by a denuded earthen bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 1.4m; Wth 2.2m) covered in dense overgrowth of hawthorn and brambles. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) visible at the NNW. A number of smaller breaches are visible throughout the circumference. The interior is quite hollow on the S side. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 September 2020

• KK019-149 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 52m), defined from N-E-S by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 10 August 2022), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The outline of the perimeter from S-W-N has been preserved in a curving field boundary. See attached imagery: KK019-149----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery date 10 August 2022 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dicksborough, 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_2149 (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 Dicksborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Dicksborough · Baile Dic

Area

554,003 m² (55.4 ha, 136.9 acres)

Civil parish

St. Patrick's, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

18,603 people lived in 6,480 households in the Kilkenny Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drakeland Lower, Drakeland Middle, Holdensrath, Kilcreen, Kylebeg, Palmerstown

Placenames

Dicksborough 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.