Highhays

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Highhays, from 537 m² to 27,119 m² (2.71 ha, 6.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• 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
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a 8 meters by 12 meters, outdoor fenced area to house a Wellness and Sauna Facility and all associated site work's. The proposed development is located within the curtilage and adjacent to 2 no. protected structures namely D86 (NIAH ref. 12000190) Railway Station, including goods shed and footbridge and B38 (NIAH ref.12006001) Former Workhouse, remains of a Union Workhouse complex built in 1840. The proposed works relate to an outdoor fenced area housing a Sauna Facility only and no works are proposed to the elevations or to the structures of the protected buildings and no ground excavations are required

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560610

• 9 Jul 2025N/a

  for a 8 meters by 12 meters, outdoor fenced area to house a Wellness and Sauna Facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560415

• 3 Mar 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of: clearance works on a 0.3217 ha site and the construction of a 7 storey hotel (GFA 8,221 sq.m) comprising 99 no. ensuite bedrooms, ground floor restaurant and bar, hotel foyer and reception, gym, 1st floor function room, meeting rooms, 1st floor outdoor terrace, 5th floor bar/restaurant with outdoor terraces and balcony and 6th floor outdoor swimming pool area and bar/restaurant with outdoor terrace. A public plaza area is also proposed along the west of the site. A vehicle set down area is proposed along Dublin Road. The proposal includes green roofs, 18 no. bicycle parking spaces, ESB substation, landscaping and drainage works. Works to demolish a limestone wall which is part of the Protected Structure of MacDonagh Station (Ref. D86) and its reuse within the site is also proposed

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360079

• 10 Feb 2023N/a

  The development will consist of: clearance works on a 0.3217 ha site and the construction of a 7 storey hotel (GFA 8,221 sq.m) comprising 99 no. ensuite bedrooms, ground floor restaurant and bar, hotel foyer and reception, gym, 1st floor function room, meeting rooms, 1st floor outdoor terrace, 5th floor bar/restaurant with outdoor terraces and balcony and 6th floor outdoor swimming pool area and bar/restaurant with outdoor terrace. A public plaza area is also proposed along the west of the site. A vehicle set down area is proposed along Dublin Road. The proposal includes green roofs, 18 no. bicycle parking spaces, ESB substation, landscaping and drainage works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360048

• 22 Nov 2022N/a

  for proposed development at lands to the south of MacDonagh Station. The development will consist of clearance works on a 0.3217 ha. site and the construction of a 7 storey hotel (GFA 8.221 sq. m.) comprising 99 no. ensuite bedrooms, ground floor restaurant and bar, hotel foyer and reception, gym, 1st floor function room, meeting rooms, 1st floor outdoor terrace, 5th floor bar/restaurant with outdoor terraces and balcony and 6th floor outdoor swimming pool area and bar/restaurant with outdoor terrace. A public plaza area is also proposed along the west of the site. A vehicle set down area is proposed along Dublin Road. The proposal includes green roofs, 18no. bicycle parking spaces, ESB substation, landscaping and drainage works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22747

• 16 Nov 2022N/a

  for proposed development. The development will consist of clearance works on a 0.3217 ha site and the construction of a 7 storey hotel (GFA 8.221 sq.m) comprising 99 no. ensuite bedrooms, ground floor restaurant and bar, hotel foyer and reception, gym, 1st floor function room, meeting rooms, 1st floor outdoor terrace, 5th floor bar / restaurant with outdoor terraces and balcony and 6th floor outdoor swimming pool area and bar / restaurant with outdoor terrace. A public plaza area is also proposed along the west of the site. A vehicle set down area is proposed along Dublin Road. The proposal includes green roofs, 18 no. bicycle parking spaces, ESB substation, landscaping and drainage works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22739

• 13 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the modification of the approved plan, Ref: P19-562, granted for the construction of a link ramp between the Goods Shed courtyard of MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre and the MacDonagh Junction Train Station path. The proposed modifications include the provision of an external stairway access attached to the link ramp structure and including all associated works. The proposed works are located within the environs of 2 no. Protected Structures - The Goods Shed, NIAH Ref. 12000193 and the Railway Station Complex, NIAH Ref. 12000190. The proposed works relate to the ramp and stair construction only and no works are proposed to the elevations or to the structure of the protected buildings and no ground excavations are required

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22246

• 24 Feb 2020Conditional

  for the erection of 11 no. external signs and the removal of 3 no. existing signs, Sign no 1a to replace existing freestanding sign located at the Castlecomer New Road N77 adjacent to building 8 (known as Continent House). Sign no. 1b to replace existing freestanding sign located at Castlecomer New Road N77 and Dublin Road Junction, sign no. 1c to replace existing freestanding sign located at the Dublin Road entrance, sign no. 2a fixed to the existing north west façade of building 1 at the Hebron Road entrance, Sign No. 2b fixed to the existing façade of building 2 inside the pedestrian entrance off Castlecomer New Road N77 adjacent to Eddie Rockets Diner, Sign no. 3 fixed to the existing north east façade of building 1 at the Hebron Road entrance, sign no. 4 fixed to the façade at the entrance to building 4 (known as Work House Square), Sign No. 5a fixed to the existing façade of building 1 adjacent to the roundabout at the Castlecomer New Road N77 and Hebron Road Junction, sign no. 5b fixed to existing wall at the corner of the existing external carpark adjacent to building 8 (known as Priory House), Sign no. 6 fixed to southern façade of building 2, Sign no. 7 fixed to the lift shaft located in the courtyard to the south of building 7 (known as the goods shed)

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20110

• 8 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a link ramp between the Goods Shed court yard of MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre and the MacDonagh Junction Train Station path, including all associated works. The proposed works are located within the environs of 2 no. Protected Structures - The Goods Shed, NIAH Ref. 12000193 & The Railway Station complex, NIAH Ref. 12000190. The proposed works relate to the ramp construction only and no works are proposed to the elevations or to the structure of the protected building

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19562

• 22 Feb 2019Conditional

  for construction of a single-storey extension to the side and two-storey extension to the rear of the existing building, together with all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19101

• 20 Nov 2018Conditional

  for development at this site. The development will consist of: Temporary retention of a surface carpark (previously permitted Planning Ref No. 08/56 & 11990058) at a previously permitted mixed-use scheme (the 'parent permission' Kilkenny Borough Council Reg.Ref. 03/32: An Bord Pleanala Reg. Ref. PL62.207285). The temporary surface carpark is on the site of the permitted hotel (Building No.6) of approximately 0.1505 ha. forming part of the MacDonagh Junction and adjoining lands of 4.94 ha approximately, Kilkenny. The development for which temporary retention permission is sought consists of: the provision of 45 No. surface car spaces (including 2 No. disabled spaces); a turning area; drainage, lighting, flagpoles, bollards, pay and display machine; and all associated site development works. The temporary car park will revert to its permitted hotel use under Reg. Ref. 03/32 (or an amendment to that permission) once construction of that development commences.

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18762

• 23 Feb 2018Conditional

  for development at this site situated at Building No. 7 (Goods Shed, a Protected Structure). The development will consist/consists of the erection of a light weight glazed canopy to span between Building 7 (Goods Shed) and Building 2 (Shopping Centre) including light weight steel framed structure and all associated works involved with the above at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18127

• 30 May 2017Refused

  for the change of use of first floor commercial/office unit to residential use and alterations to provide 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments and all associated works at First Floor

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17350

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 Highhays.

Recorded monuments

• KK019-026211 Kiln - pottery
  Description

  Archaeological monitoring of groundworks for part of the MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre development was carried out by Emma Devine and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil in 2006 (Devine and Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished; Devine and Ó Drisceoil 2009). A medieval pottery production centre was excavated (06E0122) at Highhays, Dublin Road, Kilkenny. The site (60m E-W, 25m N-S) lay within a previously unknown medieval suburb situated 200m outside (NE of) the town ditch of the ward of St. John’s Kilkenny and immediately adjacent to the chief Fair Green of the medieval town at John's Green. The production centre comprised of a pottery kiln, the foundations for workshops and stores, extraction pits, waster pits, a drying-kiln, a clay-store and fuel stands, as well as cess pits and refuse pits that were probably used by the potters. The kiln site was situated 150m to the W of a contemporary corn drying-kiln (KK019-026213-), oven and other features belonging to the same suburban settlement. The pottery kiln lay at the NW end of the excavation area, on the NE side of the Dublin Road near the former entrance to MacDonagh Railway Station, on flat ground (50m OD) at the base of a gravel ridge that rose to a height of c. 5m behind it to the E. About two-thirds of the original plan of the kiln survived, the remainder had been lost to a modern pipe-trench which ran longitudinally through it. Ground lowering for the widening of the Dublin Road in 1818 had also removed all but the deepest 0.2m of the kiln. The kiln was a NE-SE orientated double-flued, single-chambered updraught structure with adjacent stoke-pits (Musty Type 2C), with maximum excavated dimensions of 3.45m x 0.55m. The elongated oval central firing chamber (L 1.3m; Wth 0.55m; D 0.2m) had been sunk into the sandy clay subsoil. Its original width was probably in the region of 1.1m. The floor of the chamber was flat and its base, sides and flues were fire-scorched to a thickness of 0.04-0.06m. The kiln chamber had been largely cleared after the final firing of the kiln but it was possible to ascertain that fire-bars had formed a raised floor within it. There was no evidence that the chamber was lined in any way but the remains of a rectangular stone pedestal occupied the middle of the ware chamber. Archaeomagnetic dating of the rubified sides of the kiln chamber produced a date of 1325-1375, at 95% confidence, with the most likely date of its final firing estimated to have occurred in AD 1336. A radiocarbon date of cal. AD 1305-1400 from the kiln's fuel-load correlates well with the archaeomagnetic date. Forty-two sherds of Highhays ware pottery and 160 ridge tile fragments (HHTT 3 fabric) were recovered from deposits within the kiln. Kiln damage and pot stacking marks on some of the ridge tiles suggest they formed part of the final load within the kiln's firing chamber. To the NE and 20m uphill from the pottery kiln, in the highest (52.8m OD) and driest part of the site, was a rectangular E-W orientated, open-sided, stone-footed building (Structure A) with excavated dimensions of 9.5m x 5.8m. Its S side had been removed by a 19th century railway wall but if the typical width:length ratio of 1:2 was employed its original length was probably in the region of c.11.6m. The structure was likely used for drying the newly-thrown pots, with the wide entrance acting to provide good circulation of air. Fragments of a stone shed (Structure B) were situated 2m to the S of Structure A. Its walls were abutted by dumps of unprocessed clay and it can probably be interpreted as a clay store. All that remained of it was a clay-bonded rubble wall (L 2.7m; T 0.7m) with a fragment of a SW return, suggesting it was originally quite a small building. Foundation slots for earth-fast sills defined the ephemeral remains of a rectangular timber-framed building (Structure C) (excavated dims. 4.5m x 4.05m) that was situated 8.5m to the N of Structure A. A later, probably 15th-16th century, boundary ditch had cut through its N side and its W extent had been removed by a modern pipe trench, making it difficult to reconstruct its original length. Three cess-pits were excavated adjacent to Structure C. At 1.7m the deepest of the three had indentations on either side of its lip that probably originally held a timber latrine. Its primary fill contained a large assemblage of palaeobotanical material, including charcoals of birch, hazel, ash and oak, and stones of sloe, grains of free-threshing wheat, indeterminate cereals and grasses. Insect puparia, typical of latrine deposits, were also noted. A keyhole-shaped drying oven (L 3m) was sited 14m NE of the pottery kiln. It comprised an E-W aligned subsoil-cut circular drying-chamber, from which a stone flue (L 2.1m; Wth 0.7m; D 0.2m) projected. The flue was lined with a stone wall (T 0.25m). Although drying-kilns were primarily used to harden damp grain prior to its storage or grinding, it is likely, given its location within the pottery that it also had a role in the ceramic production process. Seventy-eight pits were recorded in the environs of the pottery kiln. These were clustered in two main groups, one in the lower ground to the S of the pottery kiln and the other to the N of Structure A. The majority, 62 in number, of the excavated pits were quite irregular (sub-circular/sub-rectangular) in shape and can be best interpreted as quarries for the underlying boulder clay and sand and gravel substrata for use in the ceramic production process. It is also possible that some of the pits were used for poddling (levigation) to allow the ‘raw’ clay to sit in water and settle in order to sort the larger particles and stones from the finer clays. The collection of rain/surface water seems to have been relied upon for the provision of water in the production process and there were a number of deep, silt-filled cylindrical pits excavated in the low-lying W side of the site that may have been dug specifically for this purpose. Three of the pits were capped with dumps of stone that formed circular, well-drained pads that were probably created to provide dry areas for the storage of wood which was used during the firing of its kilns. Over six thousand (6163) sherds of 'Highhays Ware' pottery were recovered and their analysis indicates that manufacturing focused on hand-built and wheel-made, round-bodied, pear shaped and possibly baluster glazed jugs, globular hand-built and wheel-thrown jars and cooking pots, money boxes and ridge tiles. An ICP-AES study suggests it was clays from the Castlecomer area, 18km N of Kilkenny, that provided the main source of raw clays for the Highhays potter(s). A second source of clay was situated at Sandfordscourt, 6km NE of Kilkenny. Small quantities of Kilkenny-type cooking ware, Leinster Cooking ware and imported Saintonge green-glazed and Flemish red-ware were also recovered. The site appears to have been abandoned before or perhaps as a result of, the Black Death, which decimated Kilkenny in 1348-9. It is likely that the continuation of the site remains in situ outside the excavated area to the SW and NW. See attached photograph: KK019-026211-_01 taken by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 29 March 2020

• KK019-026213 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  Archaeological monitoring of groundworks for part of the MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre development was carried out by Emma Devine and Cóilín Ó Drisceoil in 2006 (Devine and Ó Drisceoil 2008, unpublished; Devine and Ó Drisceoil 2009). A corn-drying kiln and oven was excavated (06E0122) at Highhays, Dublin Road, Kilkenny. The site is situated 200m outside (NE of) the town ditch of the ward of St. John’s Kilkenny and 150m to the E of a contemporary medieval pottery production centre (KK019-026211-) which was excavated at the same time. As was the case with the pottery production centre to its W, this plot would have originally fronted onto the same street/lane that was subsumed when the Dublin Road was widened in 1818. The yard contained a cereal drying-kiln (radiocarbon dated to cal. AD 1274-1389), the burnt base of an oven and postholes for what may be an out-building/store, the remains of which were all covered by a homogenous agricultural soil horizon that belonged to the 16th/17th centuries. In the higher ground (54.50m OD) uphill to the E there was no evidence for medieval activity and it appears to have been open ground, probably agricultural land, at the time. Much of the site was preserved in situ following excavation and it may continue outside the excavated areas to the W. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 30 March 2022

Architectural heritage

• Kilkenny Railway Station, railway station, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of railway station complex, opened 1847, including:(i) Detached eleven-bay double-height yellow brick Classical-style screen wall. Remodelled, 1865-8. Closed, post-2001. Remainder of railway station demolished, 2004-5. Yellow brick Flemish bond walls with cut-limestone dressings including stringcourse, carved (moulded) cornice, and coping to parapet. Series of round-headed openings originally forming arcade with cut-limestone stringcourse to spring of arches, and yellow brick voussoirs (now blocked-up with concrete block infill). Set back from road on a slightly elevated site.

• Kilkenny Railway Station, gates/railings/walls, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of broken coursed limestone ashlar boundary wall, built 1847, on a curved plan with base batter having slit-style apertures, tooled cut-limestone stringcourse, and limestone ashlar parapet having tooled cut-limestone coping. Set back from line of road.

• Kilkenny Railway Station, outbuilding, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached fourteen-bay double-height railway goods shed, built 1847, with three-bay double-height side elevations, and seven-bay double-height rear (north-east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with clay and rolled lead ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on yellow brick eaves having timber eaves board. Red and yellow brick English Garden Wall bond walls. Series of round-headed openings forming arcades (in round-headed recesses to front (south-west) elevation) with yellow brick voussoirs (now bricked-up). Square-headed window openings to side (north-west) elevation in round-headed recesses (round-headed window opening to centre) with cut-limestone sills, yellow brick voussoirs, and timber casement windows having wrought iron bars. Set in shared grounds.

• Post box, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron pillar post box, c.1950, with moulded necking, and shallow domed capping. Road fronted on concrete footpath.

• Padua, house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built 1936, with canted bay window to left ground floor, and single-bay two-storey advanced bay to side (south-east) elevation. One of a pair forming part of a group of four. Hipped (shared) slate roof (pitched to advanced bay) with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves having paired consoles. Unpainted roughcast walls with rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window having zinc-lined swept roof) with concrete sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows having timber casement fittings to canted bay window. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall having unpainted rendered piers, and iron double gates.

• Kilkenny Railway Station, outbuilding, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay double-height railway goods shed with attic, c.1875, with three-bay double-height side elevations. Extended, c.1900, comprising three-bay double-height parallel range to east. Extensively remodelled, post-2001, to accommodate use as railway station. Barrel-vaulted iron-clad roof, post-2001, with rounded overhanging eaves (forming canopy over entrance bay to side (west) elevation on posts). Pitched roof to additional range with replacement corrugated-iron, post-2001, iron ridges, and iron rainwater goods. Random rubble limestone walls with camber-headed blind openings (probably originally open) having tooled limestone ashlar or red brick voussoirs. Series of three round-headed openings to platform (north) elevation with red brick voussoirs, and replacement glazed double doors, post-2001, having overlights. Square-headed openings inserted, post-2001, to south elevation with sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed openings inserted to side (west) elevation forming entrance bay with mass-concrete steps, glazed sliding doors, tongue-and-groove timber panelled door to office, lunette window opening to gable having cut-stone sill, red brick voussoirs, and fixed-pane fitting. Set in shared grounds.

• House, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built 1936, with canted bay window to left ground floor, and single-bay two-storey advanced bay to side (south-east) elevation. Refenestrated. One of a pair forming part of a group of four. Hipped (shared) slate roof (pitched to advanced bay) with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves having paired consoles. Painted roughcast walls with rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window having zinc-lined swept roof) with concrete sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall having painted rendered piers, and iron double gates.

• Carrig Rua, house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built 1936, with canted bay window to right ground floor. Renovated and extended comprising two-bay two-storey recessed wing to left having canted bay window to left ground floor to accommodate use as guesthouse. One of a pair forming part of a group of four. Hipped (shared) slate roof (pitched to wing) with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves having paired consoles. Painted roughcast walls with rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows having zinc-lined swept roof) with concrete sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall having painted rendered piers, and iron double gates.

• Knockavon, house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house, built 1936, with canted bay window to right ground floor, and single-bay two-storey advanced bay to side (north-west) elevation. Refenestrated. One of a pair forming part of a group of four. Hipped (shared) slate roof (pitched to advanced bay) with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves having paired consoles. Painted roughcast walls with rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window having zinc-lined swept roof) with concrete sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall having painted rendered piers, and iron double gates.

• Kilkenny Railway Station, foot bridge, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch cast-iron footbridge over railway line, dated 1891. Single elliptical arch on cast-iron girder spans on paired cast-iron pillars approached by flights of sixteen iron flagged steps, and lattice work parapets having cast-iron date stone/plaque. Set in shared 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 Highhays, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2183 (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 Highhays with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Highhays · An Garraí Uachtarach

Area

39,340 m² (3.93 ha, 9.72 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Kilkenny No. 2 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,118 people lived in 1,675 households in the Kilkenny No. 2 Urban electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gardens, Pennefatherslot

Placenames

Highhays 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.