Woodsgift

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodsgift, from 168 m² to 186,350 m² (18.63 ha, 46.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Woodsgift 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.

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  to construct milking parlour, collecting yard / drafting yard, office, storage, Meal Bin, flow channels, slatted tanks with roofless cubicles and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2135

• 10 Jan 2020Conditional

  to retain 1. the steel shed and steel storage container located to the rear of property. 2. the blockwork boundary wall to the rear and side boundaries of property. 3. the hardcored/hardstanding area to the rear of property and 4. the 2nd entrance into property

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 204

• 27 Nov 2017Unconditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Reference in Register P.12/522

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 17781

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 Woodsgift.

Recorded monuments

• KK012-024 Enclosure
  Description

  A rectilinear area (max. dims. c. 20m E-W; c. 30m N-S) identified on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN097, 19 July 1971). There are traces of a rectangular building (KK012-024001-), possibly a house, in SE portion of the enclosure. See attached photograph: KK012-024----_01 CUCAP BGN097, 19 July 1971 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-024001 Building
  Description

  A rectilinear enclosure (KK012-024----) identified on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN097, 19 July 1971) with traces of a rectangular building, possibly a house, within the SE portion. See attached photograph: KK012-024001-_01 CUCAP BGN097, 19 July 1971 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-025001 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Parallel double linear ditches, c. 30m apart showing as cropmarks on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN097, 19 July 1971). This is not visible at ground level. The roadway appears to be heading towards an enclosure (KK012-024----) with a building (KK012-024001-), possibly a house, within it. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-025002 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Indicated on the 1900 revision of the 6-inch OS map as a roughly oval area (diam. c. 54m NE-SW; 42m ESE-WNW) planted with trees. It had been levelled by 1971 as it does not appear on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN096, 19 July 1971) taken at that time. There had been a larger tree plantation to the E and when this was cut, a roughly circular area of trees, possibly on a natural rise, c. 40m E of the tree-ring was retained. It is likely that this was visited in 1987 and was confused with the tree-ring, which by then had been levelled. The tree-ring is likely to have been a landscape feature associated with Woodsgift House and demesne. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-025003 Enclosure
  Description

  A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) showing as cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP BGN097, 19 July 1971; GB89.Z.12). It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-025004 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular area (int. diam. c. 50m; overall diam. c. 85m) enclosed by a bank, wide fosse (Wth c. 6-8m) and outer bank showing as a cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP BGN095, 19 July 1971; GB89.Z.10, 15 July 1989). It is not visible at ground level but is visible on Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 29 May 2019). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-025005 Enclosure
  Description

  A possible rectilinear enclosure with slightly rounded corners (dims. c. 30m) is visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971). The N side is quite faint and may not be a fosse. The W side appears to extend northward beyond the possible enclosure. It may be that these cropmarks are of old field boundaries and other natural features which are giving the appearance of an enclosure. It is not visible at ground level. See attached photograph: KK012-025005-_01 CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-025006 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 15m) enclosed by a wide fosse showing as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971). A possible ring-ditch (KK012-091----) is located c. 50m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level. See attached photograph: KK012-025006-_01 CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-025007 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Listed as an enclosure in the SMR (1987). Aerial photograph (GB89.Z.15) taken in 1989 shows the cropmark of a semi-circular enclosure defined by a fosse; this enclosure coincides with a semi-circular wooded enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. and 1900 revision OS 6-inch map and probably represents 18th/19th-century demesne landscaping. Also visible on a low-level aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971). It is not visible at ground level. See attached photograph: KK012-025007-_01 CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971 Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 February 2012

• KK012-025008 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Identified as the cropmark of parallel ditches, c. 15m apart, extending in a curve from SE-NW for c. 350m, on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN093, 19 July 1971). It is not visible at ground level but is visible on Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 29 May 2019). This feature is an 18th/early 19th-century avenue leading to, at the W end, a house called 'Summer Ho[use].' on the 1st (1839) ed. 6-inch OS map, c. 190m NE of Woodsgift House, in an area of woodland and within Woodsgift demesne. Compiled by: Jean farrelly Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• KK012-026001 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 377) refers to a penal chapel (KK012-026002-) which was built by Lieutenant Wood of Woodsgift, 'about 500 yds. north of his own residence'. He relates that on Wood's death the chapel was turned into a stable and that 'At present [c. 1905] nothing remains of the chapel but the bare foundations, 42 ft. long and 20 wide, within a little area enclosed by a low earthen fence and known as "the chapel yard". This site is about 100 yds. to the west of the modern Woodsgift House'. There is no cartographic evidence of this chapel. Healy (1874-9, vol. 1, 43) describes, 'A little to the west of Mr. Keating's residence, Woodsgift, there is an oval mound 130 yards [c. 119m] long, and 40 yards [c. 36.5m] at greatest width. It is thickly studded with tall-growing larch, and in the centre of this clamp is still traceable the foundation of the old ruin'. This feature is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and subsequent 1900 revision as a D-shaped enclosure, with the roughly semi-circular area extending to the SE (dims. c. 94m NE-SW; c. 49m NW-SE), c. 250m WSW of Woodsgift House. This appears to be a tree plantation associated with Woodsgift Demesne but may encompass the penal chapel and its yard. When visited in 1955 it is described as, 'a bank round a grove of trees' (OPW Correspondence). The feature appears to have been levelled in the 1950s as part of a Land Project scheme (OPW Correspondence) and neither it, nor any remains of a building, are visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 June 2019

• KK012-026002 Church
  Description

  Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 377) refers to a penal chapel which was built by Lieutenant Wood of Woodsgift, 'about 500 yds. north of his own residence'. He relates that on Wood's death the chapel was turned into a stable and that 'At present [c. 1905] nothing remains of the chapel but the bare foundations, 42 ft. [12.8m] long and 20 [6m] wide, within a little area enclosed by a low earthen fence and known as "the chapel yard". This site is about 100 yds. [c. 91.44m] to the west of the modern Woodsgift House'. There is no cartographic evidence of this chapel. Healy (1874-9, vol. 1, 43) describes, 'A little to the west of Mr. Keating's residence, Woodsgift, there is an oval mound 130 yards [c. 119m] long, and 40 yards [c. 36.5m] at greatest width. It is thickly studded with tall-growing larch, and in the centre of this clamp is still traceable the foundation of the old ruin'. This feature (KK012-026001-) is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and subsequent 1900 revision as a D-shaped enclosure, with the roughly semi-circular area extending to the SE (dims. c. 94m NE-SW; c. 49m NW-SE), c. 250m WSW of Woodsgift House. This appears to be a tree plantation associated with Woodsgift Demesne but may encompass the penal chapel and its yard. When visited in 1955 it is described as, 'a bank round a grove of trees' (OPW Correspondence). The feature appears to have been levelled in the 1950s as part of a Land Project scheme (OPW Correspondence) and neither it, nor any remains of a building, are visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 June 2019

• KK012-027 Enclosure
  Description

  This is not indicated on either the 1st ed. (1839) OS 6-inch map or subsequent 1900 revision, though may have been missed as it was in a large tree plantation. It is referred to as a 'mound' in correspondence relating to a Land Project scheme in 1962 (OPW Correspondence) and was subsequently levelled. It was identified as cropmark on an aerial photograph in 1971 (CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971). It appears as a D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 35m), the E or straight side of the D may have been truncated by an earlier field boundary. The enclosure is within a larger irregularly shaped enclosure (dims. c. 120m NE-SW; c. 60m WNW-ESE) which is visible as a cropmark W of the public road and which may be part of an associated field system (KK012-027001-). On the aerial photograph the N length of this larger enclosure seems to extend northeastward by c. 100m E of the road. It is not visible at ground level. See attached photograph: KK012-027----_01 CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 June 2019

• KK012-027001 Field system
  Description

  A large irregularly shaped enclosure (dims. c. 120m NE-SW; c. 60m WNW-ESE) which is visible as a cropmark (CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971) W of the public road and which may be part of an associated field system. On the aerial photograph the N length seems to extend northeastward by c. 100m E of the road. It encloses a D-shaped enclosure (KK012-027----) which is also visible as a cropmark on the aerial photograph. It is not visible at ground level. See attached photograph: KK012-027001-_01 CUCAP BGN094, 19 July 1971 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 June 2019

• KK012-090 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Within Woodsgift Demesne, in tillage. An aerial photograph (GB89.Z.12) shows a cropmark of a ring-ditch. There is an enclosure (KK012-025003-), also identified as a cropmark, c. 120m to the NW. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of revised upload: 2 July 2019

• KK012-091 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 8-10m) enclosed by a fosse showing as a cropmark on aerial photograph (GB89.Z.16, July 1989). A ring-ditch (KK012-025006-) is located c. 50m to the NE. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of revised upload: 29 May 2019

Architectural heritage

• Woodsgift House, farmyard complex, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, c.1750, including:(i) Detached thirty-bay two-storey outbuilding range on a quadrangular plan comprising seven-bay two-storey range to south with single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront having segmental-headed carriageway, seven-bay two-storey range to west with pair of (full-height) round-headed carriageways, eight-bay two-storey range to north with series of three elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor, and eight-bay two-storey range to east. Hipped slate roofs on a quadrangular plan (gabled to breakfront) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with rendered surround to pediment to breakfront. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber fittings including louvered panel fittings (some having wrought iron bars). Square-headed door openings with some having cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds incorporating elongated voussoirs, and timber boarded doors. Segmental-headed carriageway to breakfront with painted corrugated-iron double doors. Pair of full-height round-headed carriageways to range to west with concealed red brick voussoirs, and no fittings. Series of three elliptical-headed carriageways to range to north with cut-limestone block-and-start surround to centre ground floor, and no fittings. Set back from road in grounds originally shared with Woodsgift House.(ii) Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1875, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with moulded necking supporting cylindrical head having spout, curvilinear 'cow tail' handle, and inscribed domed capping on profiled course having finial.(iii) Walled garden to west with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

• Woodsgift House, gates/railings/walls, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1750, comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with inscribed cut-limestone panels, carved cut-limestone courses supporting cut-limestone capping, sections of wrought iron flanking railings leading to limestone ashlar outer piers having carved cut-limestone courses supporting cut-limestone capping, and random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Woodsgift House.

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 Woodsgift, 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 Woodsgift.

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

Name

Woodsgift · Baile na Lochán

Area

1,990,480 m² (199.05 ha, 491.86 acres)

Civil parish

Clomantagh, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Tubbridbrittain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 101 households in the Tubbridbrittain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balief Lower, Clomantagh (Mt. Garret), Craddockstown, Darbyshill, Forekill, Garranconnell, Mullaunattina, Rathclevin, Ridge, Tubbrid Lower

Placenames

Woodsgift 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.