Ayresfields

180 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ayresfields, from 1 m² to 22,724 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 129 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 52 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Jul 2026Unconditional

  of 21/252

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 2656

• 4 May 2026Conditional

  for change of house type to that granted under PA22/470, permission is also sought for domestic garage together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660260

• 28 Apr 2026Conditional

  - Construction of a two-storey sports changing-room building with associated multi-functional area at first floor and spectator stand addressing the recently permitted sports pitch, - Localised extension of the existing tarmacadam ball court area, - Relocation of existing bike racks within the existing school site, and - All associated site development works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660254

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  for development. The development will consist of: 1) 16 No. 3-bedroom terraced two-storey houses and 16 No. 2-bedroom own-door maisonette units in 2 No. two-storey buildings, 2) Boundary treatments, site landscaping, public open space, car and bicycle parking provisions, 3) Vehicular and pedestrian connection, roadway, and shared cycle and footpaths through the Bishops Lough housing development from the existing entrance off the Bonnettstown / Tullaroan Road, 4) Vehicular and pedestrian connection, roadway, and shared cycle and footpaths to the existing roundabout and roadway as permitted under Planning Ref. 21327, 5) Alterations to Lousybush Lane to include localised removal of boundary walls for vehicular and pedestrian / cyclist connections, and 6) All associated site & development works

  Permission, 28 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 2560557

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the proposed phase 2 construction of 29 No. residential dwellings consisting of; 3 No. Type C – four bedroom detached, 9 No. Type D – four bedroom semi-detached, 10 No. Type E – three bedroom semi-detached, 2 No. two level duplex buildings comprising of; 4 No. two bedroom ground floor units and 4 No. two bedroom first floor duplex units (8No. units in total), vehicular connection from existing Phase 1 development, boundary treatments, public open space, provision of foul and surface water connections/disposal, and all associated site works

  Permission, 25 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 2560413

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  for an amendment to previously granted Planning Permission 22/454. The Proposed amendment is for the relocation of the 2 detached houses and the boundary walls, and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 2560381

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  for development. The development will consist of an Artificial Grass Playing Surface with Surround Fencing, Floodlighting and Ball Stop Netting, together with all associated site development and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460620

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  PERMISSION for minor material alteration to the front and side elevation of units under construction to include for (a) replacing zinc sheeting with black slate to overdoor canopies and for (b) the omission of louvre panels to first floor and replacement with full stonework wall from ground level to roof to central panel all to units located

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460190

• 18 Jul 2022Conditional

  for a Proposed two storey dwelling, proposed vehicular entrance, driveway, connection to local authority water main & wastewater network, stormwater soakaways, landscaping, boundary treatments and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22470

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  to construct 2 number, 2 storey, 4 bed detached dwellings, connect to the existing public wastewater sewer, and all associated site works on lands

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 22454

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  for Phase 2 of a residential development consisting of the construction of 60 no. residential units and all ancillary development works including access, footpaths, parking, drainage, landscaping and amenity areas. The proposed development will allow for the laying of all roads and services for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 site. Access to the site will be via the existing entrance onto Granges Road to the east of the site and a new pedestrian and cycle access onto Lousybush Lane. This development will form part of a larger two-phase development at this location

  Permission, 60 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 21464

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  for Phase 1 of a residential development consisting of the construction of 87 no. residential units, 1 no. childcare facility and all ancillary development works including access, footpaths, parking, drainage, landscaping and amenity areas. The proposed development will allow for the laying of all roads and services for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 site. Access to the site will be via the existing entrance onto Granges Road to the east of the site and a new pedestrian and cycle access onto Lousybush Lane. This development will form part of a larger two-phase development at this location

  Permission, 88 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 21384

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a part 3-storey, part 2-storey 37-classroom school building with a total floor area of 10,564 sqm and incorporating associated support teaching spaces, offices and meeting rooms, a multi-use hall, library, staff rooms and all ancillary accommodation, including photovoltaic panels and green roofs at roof level. Works to the new school grounds will consist of the provision of 6 no. ball courts, outdoor seating and breakout areas, a sensory garden, a covered tech yard, external store building (50 sqm) and substation (22 sqm) and associated hard and soft landscaping throughout. Provision is made for the future development of a full sized sports pitch, but which does not form part of this proposal. The development will also include the construction of a new access roadway incorporating footpaths, cycleways, public lighting, and landscaping, that will tie into Kilkenny County Council's proposed Loughmacask Link Road at its Dunningstown Road junction at Lousybush. Parking and access arrangements will incorporate an internal drop-off and pick-up area for cars and an external set down for buses, the provision of 92 no. car parking spaces, incorporating 5 no. disabled parking spaces, and 342 no. bicycle parking spaces, 264 no. of which are sheltered. Permission is also sought for new foul, water and surface water drainage system works, associated with both the school and the roadway and incorporating a swale, attenuation, rainwater harvesting, and a flood storage compensation area, boundary treatments, including retaining walls, and all other site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21327

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  for development. The development will consist of the proposed phase 1 construction of 75. no residential dwellings consisting of 2 no type A - five bedroom detached, 2 No. Type A1 - five bedroom detached, 2 No. Type A1 - five bedroom detached, 2 No. Type A2 - five bedroom detached, 9 No. Type B - four bedroom detached, 2 No Type B1 - four bedroom detached, 7 No. Type C - four bedroom detached, 26 No. Type D - four bedroom semi - detached, 3 No. Type E - Three bedroom terraced, 2 No. three level apartment buildings comprising of: 1 no. one bedroom apartment, 9 No. two bedroom apartments and 1 No. three bedroom apartment in each building (22 No. apartments in total) 5 no. detached garages; vehicular site entrance from Granges Rd, a shared pedestrian and cycle route through from Granges Road to Lousybusy Lane, boundary treatments, public open space, provision of foul and surface water connections/disposal, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 53 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 21252

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  to carry out the following works on lands to include for (a) Demolition of existing single storey vacant house on site, (b) for the erection of a two storey pitch roof building with 4 no. own door 2 bedroom apartments with adjoining flat roofed single storey 2 no. outhouses/bicycle stores, (c) for parking and footpath adjustments to the front of the proposed building, (d) for connection to all underground services together with all other associates site works all located on our lands located

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2185

• 22 Apr 2020Conditional

  to retain extensions to their detached dwelling, original planning reference 05/69, at both basement and ground floor level, including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20250

• 2 Aug 2019Refused

  for development consisting of the proposed construction of 73 no. residential dwellings consisting of; 4 no. Type A - five bedroom detached, 3 no. Type A1 - five bedroom detached, 9 no. Type B - four bedroom detached, 4 no. Type B1 - four bedroom detached, 8 no. Type C - four bedroom detached, 20 no. Type D - four bedroom semi-detached, 18 no. Type E - three bedroom semi-detached, 3 no. Type F - three bedroom terraced, 4 no. Type G - two bedroom apartments, 10 no. detached garages; vehicular site entrance from Granges Road, individual entrances to proposed houses fronting Granges Road, boundary treatments, public open space, provision of foul and surface water connections/disposal, and all associated site works

  Permission, 69 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 19546

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a one and a half storey, detached dwelling, a detached garage, connect to the existing public wastewater sewer, and all associated site works on lands at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18621

• 12 Sept 2018N/a

  to construct a one and a half storey, detached dwelling, a detached garage, connect to the existing public wastewater sewer, and all associated site works on lands at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18609

• 17 Aug 2017Conditional

  for the following: 1. Retention permission is sought for alterations to previously granted planning permission ref no.03990056 to include elevational and internal modifications. 2. Planning permission is sought for single storey extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling. 3. Internal and external modifications and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17539

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct four number two storey, three bed detached dwellings, connect to the existing public wastewater sewer, two new double vehicle site entrances; re-align the existing road boundary wall in front of the site and all associated site works

  Permission, 4 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 17444

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 Ayresfields.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ayresfields.

Architectural heritage

• Ayrfield, house, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey over part-basement house, built 1903, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier cottage, pre-1840, with single-bay two-storey projecting entrance bay, and single-bay two-storey return to south. Hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, 2004, on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills (moulded rendered sill course to first floor entrance bay), moulded rendered surrounds, and two-over-two timber sash windows having timber casement windows to entrance bay. Square-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, and replacement timber panelled door, 2004. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with wrought iron railings to forecourt having cast-iron piers, iron double gates, and unpainted roughcast boundary wall to perimeter of site having painted rendered curved walls leading to painted rendered piers with iron double gates.(ii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-attic, c.1900, to west. Hipped slate roof (gabled to opening to first floor side (south) elevation) with clay ridge tiles, slightly sproketed eaves, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings (including to first floor side (south) elevation) with timber boarded doors having overlights to ground floor.

• The Presbytery, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built 1916, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, two-bay two-storey side elevations, and single-bay two-storey lower return to north-east. Hipped slate roofs on an E-shaped plan with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, rooflight, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves having consoles. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to corners (including to porch having moulded course supporting cut-stone coping to parapet). Camber-headed window openings (square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation and to return) with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds (no surrounds to rear (north) elevation or to return), and one-over-one timber sash windows (one having margins to rear (north) elevation with stained glass panels). Round-headed door opening with two steps, rendered surround, replacement panelled pilaster doorcase, 2003, and replacement timber panelled door, 2003, having overlight. Set back from line of road perpendicular to road with unpainted roughcast boundary wall to perimeter of site.

• Vent pipe, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, c.1900, comprising fluted pedestal having moulded necking, and cylindrical shaft over having saw tooth-profiled parapet. Road fronted on concrete footpath.

• Cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing, 1915–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of cut-limestone kerbing, c.1925. Road fronted.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2167 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ayresfields with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Ayresfields · Páirceanna an Iarsaigh

Area

174,971 m² (17.5 ha, 43.24 acres)

Civil parish

St. Canice, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkenny Rural electoral division: 18,603 people in 6,480 households; 64% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bishop's Demesne, Gardens, Jamespark, Loughmacask, Lousybush, Talbotsinch

Placenames

Ayresfields 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.