Rathduff (Bayley)

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathduff (Bayley), from 117 m² to 118,842 m² (11.88 ha, 29.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 (Bayley) 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.

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  for: (1) 2 no. glamping sites with converted bus and converted shipping container tourist accommodation thereon, on the glamping sites previously permitted under planning permission ref: PL21/304; (2) change of use and extension of existing barn to provide recreational facilities for tourists, storage and a home gym; (3) access track to glamping sites; (4) domestic garden shed; (5) landscaping; and Permission for: (6) a new wastewater treatment system to serve the existing dwelling and tourist accommodation; (7) car and bicycle parking; (8) closure of an existing secondary vehicle entrance and upgrading of the existing main house entrance; and (9) associated works.

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460619

• 19 Apr 2023Conditional

  for construction of a new single storey dwelling, new site entrance, a new wastewater treatment system, plus all associated site works. A N.I.S. (Natura Impact Statement) has been submitted with the application and is available for inspection

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2394

• 24 Feb 2023Refused

  for the retention of existing structures as built on site and for modifications to approved plan reference P21/304, relating to proposed glamping site and associated works. Permission is also sought for modifications to landscaping and siteworks

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2353

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a proposed glamping site consisting of 6 glamping pods, communal kitchen / toilet block building, office / bin store building, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated landscaping and siteworks. Permission is also sought for a change of use of an existing log cabin 'garden room' to general purpose room

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21304

• 12 Mar 2021Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage / store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21166

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
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathduff (Bayley).

Architectural heritage

• House, 1915–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1925, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Now disused. Pitched slate roof (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, rendered coping, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls with rendered strips to ends. Square-headed window openings with painted cut-stone sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set back from road in own 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 Rathduff (Bayley), 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 (Bayley).

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 (Bayley) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Rathduff (Bayley) · An Ráth Dhubh (Bayley)

Area

309,508 m² (30.95 ha, 76.48 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

Garranstan, Kellsborough, Kellsgrange, Laghtbrack, Lawcus, Rathduff (Madden), Rathduff Lower

Placenames

Rathduff (Bayley) 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.