Foyle North

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foyle North, from 112 m² to 91,535 m² (9.15 ha, 22.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Foyle North 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.

• 6 Oct 2020Conditional

  to change location of house and alter site boundaries from that as granted with Planning Register No. P19/36 and all ancillary and necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20657

• 11 Aug 2020N/a

  on the grant of outline permission for development at this site (Folio KK 18902F 63425 667850Mn/635050Me 668500Mn). The development will consist/consists of Construction of multi purpose Agricultural shed for the purposes of recreation, home craft workshop and animal husbandry. Approximate dimension of shed is 40x20mx7m high.

  Permission consequent · Kilkenny County Council, 20521

• 11 Aug 2020N/a

  Construction of single level 60m2 extension to existing garage structure. The dwelling will comprise of two no. bedrooms, open plan kitchen / dining area and two no. bathrooms. The extension will be adjacent to the existing dwelling house.

  Permission consequent · Kilkenny County Council, 20522

• 28 Jan 2019Conditional

  for a one and half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, a proprietary wastewater treatment system, sand polishing filter, new entrance and all necessary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1936

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  permission for changes and alterations to dwelling as constructed, amendments and changes to domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area as constructed and all associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18190

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 Foyle North.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foyle North.

Architectural heritage

• Creenkill National School, school, 1940–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height national school, dated 1942, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed recessed flanking entrance end bays having three-bay single-storey rear (north-west) elevations. Hipped artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat lined roofs to entrance end bays with timber eaves. Painted roughcast walls on painted rendered plinths with cut-limestone date stone/plaque. Grouped (three-part arrangement) square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and three-over-three timber sash windows having horizontal bias to glazing pattern (two-over-two timber sash windows to entrance end bays). Square-headed door openings on two concrete steps with projecting splayed reveals supporting concrete canopy, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road with painted rendered boundary wall having rendered piers, and iron double gates (dated 1934).

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 Foyle North, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Foyle North · An Fhaill Thuaidh

Area

474,609 m² (47.46 ha, 117.28 acres)

Civil parish

Balleen, and its townlands

Barony

Galmoy

Electoral division

Balleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

517 people lived in 173 households in the Balleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolcashin, Creenkill More, Frankford or Ballykieran

Placenames

Foyle North 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.