Baun

121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baun, from 9 m² to 140,436 m² (14.04 ha, 34.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 75 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 · 3 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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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 Baun.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-010 Enclosure
  Description

  In a field immediately NE of the roundabout at the junction of the N77 and the Castlecomer Road, formerly part of a sand and gravel quarry. Indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) but not shown on the 1945-6 revision which suggests the monument had been levelled by 1946. Satellite imagery (Google Earth, 20 November 2005) indicates that some quarrying took place in the field c. 2005, possibly associated with the works for the construction of the ring road, and that the field has subsequently been left fallow (Google Earth, 17 September 2019). The locational information from the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map appears to have been incorrectly transferred to the RMP (1996) mapping, resulting in the enclosure being indicated c. 50m SW of where it should have been. Archaeological excavations in 2003 verified this (O'Hara and Tooher 2003). A re-evaluation of the excavation report with the rectified locational information taken into consideration reveals that in the vicinity of the SW sector of the enclosure, at the edge of the road-take, a shallow clay-filled pit (diam. 0.4m; D 0.1m) containing very occasional traces of charcoal and cremated bone was found (ibid. 6). The enclosure appears to be located immediately outside the area of the road-take. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Baun, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

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

Name

Baun · An Bán

Area

648,564 m² (64.86 ha, 160.26 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Dunmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

675 people lived in 236 households in the Dunmore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bonnetsrath, Dunmore, Dunmorepark, Glendine, Loughmerans, Radestown North

Placenames

Baun 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.