Rathduff Upper

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathduff Upper, from 50 m² to 430,761 m² (43.08 ha, 106.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Rathduff Upper 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.

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  to retain indefinitely existing dog kennels and day care service (known as Apex Doggie Day Care and Boarding Kennels) including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660530

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  is sought to construct a new two storey extension to the rear and side of their existing dwelling, all elevational and internal modifications, decommissioning of existing septic tank, new effluent treatment plant and percolation area, demolition of existing porch to front of existing dwelling, garage and storage shed and all associated site developments works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21431

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  to construct agricultural storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21382

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 Rathduff Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KK027-070002 Mound
  Description

  Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 51) describes, ‘Killossory, a subdivision of Rathduff, [which] is situated about a mile south of Kells, at the point where the road from Kells to Knocktopher crosses the little stream separating the townlands of Rathduff and Stonecarty’. He goes on to speculate about the location of the church of Killossory, suggesting that it may have stood, ‘either (a) in the small gree field beside the ford, to the west of the road, where black earth, such as is always to be found on the sites of ancient graveyards, has been dug up, also old horse shoes &c.; or (b) on the very brink of the ford, where a forge till lately occupied the site of an ancient mound composed for a great part of black, graveyard earth, and removed about 1820’ (ibid.). There is no indication of a levelled mound on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery up to March 2022; OS Ortho up to 2018). However, the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map indicates a building immediately NE of the ford which is not longer indicated on the 25-inch map which was surveyed in 1899, presumably this is the forge mentioned by Carrigan, though it is not named on the OS map. The mound has been plotted to this location. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 April 2023

• KK027-070003 Enclosure
  Description

  Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 51) describes, ‘Killossory, a subdivision of Rathduff, [which] is situated about a mile south of Kells, at the point where the road from Kells to Knocktopher crosses the little stream separating the townlands of Rathduff and Stonecarty’. He goes on to speculate about the location of the church of Killossory, giving as one of the options, ‘within the old “raw” (rath), in the furze, about 20 perches [100m] east of the ford’ (ibid.). This ‘rath’ or enclosure is not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or on the 1948 revision and was previously unlocated. However, on both these maps there is a field boundary, c. 100m NE of Killossory Ford/Bridge, which has a pronounced curvilinear kink. On satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 10 June 2008 and 25 April 2021; OS Ortho 2004-2006) the cropmark of a circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 48m) is clearly visible, defined by a fosse. The W perimeter of the enclosure corresponds to the curvilinear kink in the field boundary on the OS maps, this field boundary has since been removed. See attached: KK027-070003-_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 10 June 2008 KK027-070003-_02 Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 25 April 2021 KK027-070003-_03 OS Ortho satellite imagery, imagery date 2004-2006 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 April 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathduff Upper, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathduff Upper.

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 Rathduff Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rathduff Upper · An Ráth Dhubh Uachtarach

Area

1,242,376 m² (124.24 ha, 307 acres)

Civil parish

Kells, and its townlands

Barony

Kells

Electoral division

Kells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

681 people lived in 230 households in the Kells electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunreagh, Kells, Kilree, Laghtbrack, Lawcus, Rathduff, Rathduff Lower, Stonecarthy East, Stonecarthy West

Placenames

Rathduff Upper 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.