Blanchvilleskill
Blanchvilleskill is a townland in the civil parish of Gowran, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Cill na mBlóinsíneach.
Parcel 5017546
- Area
- 357 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Blanchvilleskill
Planning applications on this parcel
20 May 2019N/a
is hereby sought for a self contained granny flat consisting of the change of use of the existing attached garage to living space, with a first floor extension above to include a bedroom and ensuite, along with associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19335
23 Apr 2019N/a
for the change of use of existing attached garage to living space, with a first floor extension above to include a bedroom and ensuite, along with associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19275
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 52.9 ha
- 131 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blanchvilleskill, from 94 m² to 119,252 m² (11.93 ha, 29.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Blanchvilleskill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Feb 2024Conditional
is sought to construct a two-storey with a single-storey section to the rear of the proposed new dwelling house, detached garage, private well, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, upgraded existing site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2418
30 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct a new two storey dwelling with attached domestic garage, on-site sewerage treatment, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21973
20 May 2019N/a
is hereby sought for a self contained granny flat consisting of the change of use of the existing attached garage to living space, with a first floor extension above to include a bedroom and ensuite, along with associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19335
23 Apr 2019N/a
for the change of use of existing attached garage to living space, with a first floor extension above to include a bedroom and ensuite, along with associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19275
30 Oct 2018Conditional
to construct/install a new dwelling, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system, new entrance, private well and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18721
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Blanchvilleskill.
Recorded monuments
- KK020-042 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. Identified as the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ALV036, 26 July 1965) and also visible on a satellite image (Google Earth, 14 July 2018). It is defined by a deep fosse with no apparent entrance gap. See attached satellite image: KK020-042----_01 Google Earth, 14 July 2018 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 December 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blanchvilleskill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Blanchvilleskill, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blanchvilleskill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Blanchvilleskill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Blanchvilleskill · Cill na mBlóinsíneach
- Area
- 529,271 m² (52.93 ha, 130.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gowran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gowran
- Electoral division
- Dunbell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 525 people lived in 192 households in the Dunbell electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blanchvillespark, Blanchvillestown, Kylebeg, Rathcash East, Sheafield North
- Placenames
- Blanchvilleskill 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.