Kellsborough

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kellsborough, from 13 m² to 3,076 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Kellsborough 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.

• 18 Sept 2026N/a

  for development. The development will consist of the extension of the Kells Village Loop Walk through the construction of a 30m long ramped section of boardwalk on the mill tail race island, a 10m span pedestrian bridge over the mill tail race, a new path along the north bank of the Kings River, removal of substructure associated with unfinished development of 4nr. houses, fencing and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared and submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660604

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 Kellsborough.

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached thirteen-bay five-storey rubble stone flour mill, c.1800, with single-bay five-storey return to south-east. Subsequently in use as corn mill, pre-1902. Closed, 1902. Disused, 1948. Recommissioned, pre-1973. Now disused. Hipped slate roof (including to return) with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on rendered squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls to front (north-west) elevation with unpainted roughcast walls to remainder having waterwheel to side (south-west) elevation. Camber-headed window openings with no sills, red brick voussoirs, and timber casement windows (most missing glazing). Square-headed door openings (some in camber-headed recesses including to left to third floor) with lintels, red brick voussoirs, and timber boarded doors. Elliptical-headed culvert to right ground floor with limestone ashlar voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having remains of render over. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and mill pond to west.

• Kellsborough House, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1800, with three-bay two-storey recessed lower wing to left. Renovated, c.1925, with salvaged (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico added to ground floor. Part reroofed, c.1950. Hipped roof (pitched slate roof to wing) with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to portico. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement with timber panelled pilaster mullions) with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows having six-over-six timber sash windows to wing. Square-headed door opening under prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico (with bas-relief fluted cut-limestone columns without responsive pilasters supporting frieze, and dentilated moulded cornice supporting round-headed panelled finial piers possibly originally featuring balustrade or railings) with cut-limestone surround, and timber panelled door having overlight incorporating fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1800, perpendicular to north-west with square-headed carriageway. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered red brick eaves. Remains of unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with lintels (now blocked-up with concrete block infill). Square-headed carriageway with lintel, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. (iii) Detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1800, to south about a courtyard with five-bay single-storey mono-pitched projecting wing to left, and six-bay single-storey lean-to projecting wing to right having series of six square-headed openings forming arcade. Pitched slate roof (mono-pitched to wings) with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick eaves. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings with no sills, concealed lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Series of square-headed openings to wing to right forming open arcade with lintels on cast-iron pillars.

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 Kellsborough, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kellsborough.

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

Name

Kellsborough · Buiríos Cheanannais

Area

245,926 m² (24.59 ha, 60.77 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, Garrynamann Lower, Kells, Rathduff (Bayley), Rathduff (Madden)

Placenames

Kellsborough 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.