Goodwinsgarden

169 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goodwinsgarden, from 1 m² to 390,420 m² (39.04 ha, 96.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Goodwinsgarden 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.

• 24 Apr 2026N/a

  for the construction of a part two-storey and part single storey extension to the side of our existing clubhouse building and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660243

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  to remove an existing derelict attached side shed and construct a single storey extension to the rear of the cottage and two single storey extensions, one on either side of the cottage, construct a detached garage ,a new site entrance, a new packaged wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560476

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  to remove an existing single storey extension and replace with a proposed two storey extension to the rear of the cottage and for a proposed single storey garden room extension with a first-floor balcony on top to the side of the cottage and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460344

• 20 Jun 2024Conditional

  for a two-storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460287

• 13 Mar 2024Conditional

  for a two storey, four-bedroom dwelling house, a detached garage, a new site entrance, a new packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460127

• 17 May 2023Refused

  for a new single storey four bedroom dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, new site entrance plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 23125

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a single storey kitchen extension to the front of the existing dwelling and an open roof canopy to the side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22575

• 22 Jun 2022Conditional

  for a two storey, four-bedroom dwelling house, with an attached garage, a detached garden room, a new site entrance, a new packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter, a new bored well and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22404

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  to remove a portion of a building wall to the rear and an existing single storey extension to the side, for the change of use of the public bar (ground floor) to residential and the refurbishment of the first floor apartment over with an additional 2-storey side extension to the side, alterations and additions to the windows fenestration and to convert the entire building to a 2-bedroom, 2 storey dwelling house and construct an attached garage to the rear and all associated site works on lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21583

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  to demolish an existing building wall to the yard and to construct a new 3-bedroom, 2 storey dwelling house in portion of the yard and all associated site works on lands

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21584

• 21 Jun 2021Unconditional

  for P16/397

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 21539

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

  to remove the existing single storey toilet block and replace with a new larger single storey more accessible toilet block in a similar location. Change of use of the detached storage shed to a kitchen, with a proposed extension to connect the main public bar to the proposed kitchen. A proposed detached cold room storage shed with an extended lean-to roof located in the beer garden. Alterations and additions to the windows and doors fenestration, with an additional door to provide access to the existing 2 bed first floor apartment to be refurbished, additional windows on the side elevation, with the addition of matching plaster detailing and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21192

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  to demolish an existing two storey dwelling and to construct a new two storey dwelling in its place, to demolish 2 existing agriculture sheds, a new vehicle entrance adjacent to the existing agricultural entrance, a new septic tank and all associated site works on lands at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20921

• 19 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the erection of a single storey Living Room / Dining Room extension to the side and rear of our dwelling along with all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20800

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  for a new split level / two storey dwelling with attached family flat, new site entrance, waste water treatment system plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20439

• 25 Jun 2020Refused

  for development. The development will consist of the replacement of an existing 10m wooden pole for a 15 metre high free standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dishes, ground equipment and all associated site development works. The development will form part of Eircom Ltd existing telecommunications and broadband network

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20394

• 3 Apr 2019Conditional

  to remove a porch to the front of the dwelling a glazed conservatory attached to the side of the dwelling and the upper level of the existing rear extension. To alter, extend and construct a two storey extension to the rear and a single storey extension to the side of the dwelling, with alterations and additional windows to the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19209

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  to indefinitely retain 2 slatted tanks and an extension to an existing slatted dairy unit and full planning permission to add cubicles with-in a slatted dairy unit and to construct 2 underground slatted slurry tanks and to construct an over-ground slurry tank and all associated site works on my lands at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18483

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 Goodwinsgarden.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rooflight, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Glory Bridge, bridge, 1765–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1775. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble limestone construction with cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers, and squared rubble limestone rounded coping to parapets. Series of four round arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble limestone soffits having traces of render over. Sited spanning River Glory with grass banks to river.

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 Goodwinsgarden, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Goodwinsgarden · Garraí an Ghoidínigh

Area

2,779,827 m² (277.98 ha, 686.91 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

Baunemon, Garrynamann Lower, Haggard, Kells, Killinny, Monadubbaun, Rathculbin, Spruceshay

Placenames

Goodwinsgarden 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.