Blanchfieldsland

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blanchfieldsland, from 109 m² to 159,776 m² (15.98 ha, 39.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• C6Business Park (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industrial/Warehousing (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity / Green links/Biodiversity conservation/ Open Space/Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use Zoning (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Mar 2023Conditional

  The development will comprise of a hotel, leisure and conference complex, incorporating the refurbishment and change of use of Hebron House (a Protected Structure) as the hotel reception with meeting rooms and offices, the development of hotel parkland and the construction of an access road off the N10 . The hotel extension off the refurbished two-storey over semi-basement Hebron House will provide a new two and three-storey hotel structure with 136 no. bedrooms, reception area, restaurant, bars, kitchen, staff room, stores, toilets, service areas, meeting rooms and conference centre and a lower ground floor level swimming pool, leisure centre, fitness suite, plant rooms and storage rooms. Within the grounds of the hotel, leisure and conference complex it is proposed to redevelop and landscape the existing walled garden and develop a landscaped parkland along the Pococke river, including footpaths and cycleways and a hotel car and bus park. A new access road is proposed from the N10 roundabout into Blanchfieldsland which will provide access to the proposed hotel complex and future developments on the Business Park zoned lands. Other works involve the demolition of existing outbuildings and sheds and the carrying out of all associated site development works, including a foul sewer pump station, storm drainage and attenuation, water services, ESB substation and lighting. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360131

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a machinery store with all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21256

• 18 Mar 2021N/a

  for the construction of a machinery store with all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21190

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blanchfieldsland.

Architectural heritage

• Hebron House, farm house, 1700–1773 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1773, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1998. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls on rendered cushion course bellcast over rendered, ruled and lined base. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of five cut-limestone steps with moulded surround framing concrete block infill. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing concrete block infill. Set in unkempt grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having lichen-covered pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

• Hebron House, gates/railings/walls, 1843–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1900, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having lichen-covered shallow stringcourses below pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates. Now disused. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Hebron House.

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 Blanchfieldsland, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2192 (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 Blanchfieldsland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Blanchfieldsland · Fearann an Bhlóinsínigh

Area

481,812 m² (48.18 ha, 119.06 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

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

Archersrath, Garrincreen, Kingsland, Leggetsrath East, Leggetsrath West

Placenames

Blanchfieldsland 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.