Foyle South

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foyle South, from 151 m² to 277,278 m² (27.73 ha, 68.52 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 Foyle South 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.

• 21 Feb 2023Refused

  to construct a new single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, on-site sewerage treatment, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360057

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  for 1 1/2 storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 17385

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 Foyle South.

Recorded monuments

• KK009-030 Moated site
  Description

  On the break in gentle NW-facing slope, just to N of small stream in a poorly drained area. There are good views N-E. A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 42m square). It is described by Barry (1977, 190) as being, 'Almost square site. Flat platform. Remains of int. and ext. banks. Wet moat 6m wide and 1m deep'. The moated site was levelled between the 1970s and 1987 and is not visible at ground level. On Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 5 February 2018) the monument is now surrounded by forestry, the area of the monument itself being left fallow. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 Febuary 2018

• KK009-031 Enclosure
  Description

  On a terrace on a hillslope, in rolling grassland. There are good views from the monument. It is depicted on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 42m N-S; c. 32m E-W), with the townland boundary curving around to respect the N quadrant. On the 1900 revision it is a similar shape but is not hachured and the depiction of marsh within the interior suggests it was quite waterlogged. The enclosure was levelled during land reclamation. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• Foyle Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble limestone hump back road bridge over stream, c.1800. Random rubble limestone walls with inscribed cut-limestone plaque, and squared rubble limestone coping to parapets. Single round arch with cut-stone voussoirs having keystone, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning stream with grass banks to stream.

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 Foyle South, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2032 (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 Foyle South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Foyle South · An Fhaill Theas

Area

1,421,056 m² (142.11 ha, 351.15 acres)

Civil parish

Balleen, and its townlands

Barony

Galmoy

Electoral division

Balleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

517 people lived in 173 households in the Balleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleen Lower, Baunmore or Balleen Upper, Coolcashin, Frankford or Ballykieran, Garranamanagh, Killoshulan, Newtown

Placenames

Foyle South 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.