Neworchard

578 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Neworchard, from 1 m² to 276,545 m² (27.65 ha, 68.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 428 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing low density residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 99 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2New Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 43 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 · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Neworchard.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-013 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 44m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (GSI S483, 1973-7) and also visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, 21 April 2019). It is not indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map or subsequent 1945-6 revision. The satellite image suggests there may be an entrance in the NW quadrant. A field boundary with a farm roadway along its W side, runs NNW-SSE through the NE-E sector of the enclosure. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 21 April 2019). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 September 2020

• KK019-058 House - 17th century
  Description

  Indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of St John's parish depicts a house close to the E edge of Neworchard townland with a trees drawn to the N, W and S of the house and annotated 'orchard' (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). The terrier accompanying the parish map lists 'Michael Radgett' as the proprietor in 1640, and relates that, 'In New orchard [there is] a good orchard' (ibid.). The house and orchard correspond to a house and farmyard indicated at this location on the 1st (18339-40) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1945-6 revision it is named, 'New Orchard'. See attached extract of Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of St John's parish Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 October 2020

• KK019-116 Enclosure
  Description

  In relatively flat terrain. An aerial photograph (GB89.Q.25, 13 July 1989) shows a cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by two concentric fosses. The outer ring road of Kilkenny City, the N77, completed in 2007, runs through the monument. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 October 2020

• KK019-117 Ring-ditch
  Description

  On the NE outskirts of Kilkenny City, a river flows southward into the Nore c. 270m to the E, fomerly in tillage. An aerial photograph (GB89.Q.26, 13 July 1989) shows cropmark of a small circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m). Subsequently the Ashfield house estate was built over the monument. An enclosure (KK019-121----) also identified as a cropmark lies c. 200m to the SE, possibly associated with a relic field system (KK019-123----). Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Neworchard, 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_2182 (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 Neworchard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Neworchard · An tAbhallort Nua

Area

850,903 m² (85.09 ha, 210.26 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

Bonnetsrath, Brownstown, Charterschool Land, Kyleroe, Newpark Lower, Newpark Upper, Newtown, Seixeslough

Placenames

Neworchard 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.