Kilmacart
Kilmacart is a townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Cill Mhic Artáin.
Parcel 796515
- Area
- 3,282 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 266 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilmacart
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 116.8 ha
- 289 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 3,367 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Open Space and Amenity
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmacart, from 140 m² to 192,704 m² (19.27 ha, 47.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Hacketstown Small Town Plan, Carlow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Sept 2025Conditional
erect a 24m high lattice telecommunications structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed by security fencing together with access track extension
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560298
29 Oct 2024Conditional
Five Bedroom Dormer bungalow (circa 148.0 sq.m) with ground floor extension Sunroom (9.50sq.m) total area 158.0 sq.m, including revised site entrance and ancillary siteworks to previously approved development reg ref PL 96/94. Site area circa 0.17 Ha
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460345
4 Mar 2024Conditional
new domestic Garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460049
9 Mar 2020Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, new entrance, a septic tank and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2085
30 Jun 2017Conditional
Planning permission for the construction of a single-story house, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17206
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmacart.
Architectural heritage
- Hacketstown Bridge, bridge, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, dated 1829, with cut stone voussoirs and coping.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilmacart, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmacart.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilmacart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmacart · Cill Mhic Artáin
- Area
- 1,168,238 m² (116.82 ha, 288.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hacketstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Hacketstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,226 people lived in 436 households in the Hacketstown electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrack More (Co. Wicklow), Borkill More (Co. Wicklow), Borough, Brownbog, Hacketstown Lower, Porchavodda
- Placenames
- Kilmacart 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.