Bonnetstown

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bonnetstown, from 10 m² to 122,746 m² (12.27 ha, 30.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Bonnetstown 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.

• 15 Jul 2022Conditional

  for a new two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, new site entrance, plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22464

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct an over-ground slurry storage tank and associated site works with the development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22156

• 22 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and all site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2297

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the removal of the flat roof porch to the front of the existing two storey, detached dwelling and its replacement with a single storey conservatory with entrance. First floor extension to the front and side with pitched roof that aligns with the ridge height of the main roof. Removal of the flat roof to the rear and replacement with a lean-to style roof. The construction of a two storey extension with new entrance to the ancillary accommodation to the side of the main dwelling. Associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21939

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the following: (a) Construction of modifications to existing entrance to improve sighlines, (b) Construction of an Overground Slurry Store, (c) Construction of Silage Pit, (d) Construction of Milking Parlour, waiting yard, handling area and underground slatter tank, (e) Construction of a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank, Erection of External Bulk Tank, Meal Bin and Water Storage Tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20826

• 12 Nov 2020N/a

  for the following: (a) Construction of modifications to existing entrance to improve sightlines (b) Construction of an Overground Slurry Store (c) Construction of Silage Pit (d) Construction of Milking Parlour, waiting yard, handling area and underground slatted tank (e) Construction of a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank, Erection of External Bulk Tank, Meal Bin and Water Storage Tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20774

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  for the Development of a Livestock Quarantine Shed and all associated site works intended for development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20180

• 25 Apr 2019Conditional

  for development for sustainable refurbishment, repairs, sympathetic internal and external alterations (all following Architectural Conservation Principles) of existing historic dwelling including repair of historic windows, shutters, roof, services, finishes and entire basement area, removal of old low grade extension element to west, upgrading of existing effluent treatment system on site and all associated works. Bonnettstown Hall is listed as a protected structure in the County Kilkenny Development Plan Reference No. C323, NIAH Reference Number 12401909

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19278

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  for the following: (1) change of house plans from that previously granted in Planning Permission Reference No. 09/571 and (2) all ancillary site services. The biocycle unit, percolation area and entrance onto public road are unaltered from that as granted in Planning Permission Reference No. 09/571

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 17848

• 7 Dec 2017N/a

  for the following: (1) change of house plan from that previously granted in Planning permission reference No.09/571 and (2) all ancillary site services. The biocycle unit, percolation area and entrance onto public road are unaltered from that as granted in Planning Permission Reference No 09/571.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17812

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 Bonnetstown.

Recorded monuments

• KK014-129 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On an eastern ridge of the Slieve Ardagh foothills, overlooking Kilkenny City and the Nore river valley, in rough pasture. Identified during archaeological monitoring of a Bord Gáis Éireann gas pipeline development (excav. no. 99E0601) (Stevens 2000, 138). It consisted of a thin spread of ash and burnt mound material (dims. c. 11m N-S; c. 9m E-W; T 0.1m) and a small oblong trough/pit (L 1.5m; Wth 0.75m; D 0.2), bisected by a modern field boundary (ibid.). The trough/pit contained a backfill of burnt mound material of fire-cracked sandstone and silty clay (ibid.). A stake-hole was found 0.37m to the SE of this trough/pit (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 June 2020

• KK019-003001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located to the N of the stable yard which is associated with Bonnetstown House. The house, built in 1737, which lies c. 100m to the S. There is a artificial lake, associated with the designed landscape of Bonnetstown House, immediately NW of the tower house. According to O'Kelly (1969, 21) this castle, ‘belonged to Robert Shee in 1559, but was Ormonde property previously’. A ruinous tower house (dims. 8.6m x 8m), with the W angle, which contained the stair, and much of the NW wall missing (Salter 2004, 61). The ground floor was vaulted over and no floor level above the vault survives. Only one jamb of the entrance doorway survives (ibid.). At ground-floor level there is a loop in the NE wall, with its embrasure splaying internally and externally and another window in the SE wall. An opening at the S end of the SE wall has been broken through. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 September 2020

• KK019-003002 Building
  Description

  According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 198), ‘A few yards to the south [of Bonnetstown tower house KK019-003001-] is a broken quadrangular building, about 60 ft. [c. 18m] long and of later date than the castle, which the people say was a chapel. It does not, however, seem to have been originally intended for a chapel. Probably it was a hall, mansion or dwelling house added to the castle, and subsequently, and perhaps but for some brief interval, made use of as the chapel of the district’. Carrigan appears to be describing a long range, possibly a stable block for Bonnetstown House which was built in 1737. The block, orientated NE-SW, is indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map c. 5m S of the tower house and had been demolished by the 1945-6 revision of this map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 September 2020

• KK019-003003 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. A subrectangular enclosure (dims. c. 70m NW-SE; c. 50m N-S) visible as a cropmark on a GSI aerial photograph (S481, 1973-7) in the field N of Bonnetstown castle (KK019-003001-). This may relate to an 18th/19th-century field system as the N side of the enclosure, running NW-SE, follows the line of a field boundary indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map, which had been removed by the 1945-6 revision of this map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Mary Tunney Date of revised upload: 15 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• Bonnetstown Hall, country house, 1735–1740 · National interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1737-8, on a rectangular plan; three- or five-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having lichen-spotted capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, grouped rooflights to rear (north) pitch, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on dragged cut-limestone cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with drag edged rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners supporting dragged cut-limestone "bas-relief" recessed band to eaves. Square-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of twelve lichen-spotted cut-limestone steps between arrow head-detailed wrought iron railings, drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled double doors having overpanel with four-over-four timber sash sidelights without horns. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses (basement) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone monolithic surrounds centred on keystones framing wrought iron bars over one-by-one horizontal sash windows without horns having lattice glazing bars. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on triple keystones framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with dragged cut-limestone sills on "Acanthus"-detailed scroll consoles, and dragged cut-limestone lugged surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or nine-over-nine (first floor) timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed central door opening to rear (north) elevation approached by "perron" of eight lichen-spotted cut-limestone steps between wrought iron railings, drag edged dragged cut-limestone doorcase with monolithic pilasters supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on rosette-detailed frieze framing glazed timber panelled door. Paired square-headed window opening in camber-headed recesses with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing sixteen-over-sixteen timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or nine-over-nine (first floor) timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors centred on cut-limestone Classical-style chimneypiece, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in fluted Corinthian colonette newels, timber panelled shutters to window openings to half-landing, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus" ceiling rose in moulded plasterwork frame, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; study (south-west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, reclaimed rosette-detailed cut-limestone Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (north-west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; dining room (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, reclaimed cut-limestone Classical-style chimneypiece, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Bonnetstown Hall, farmyard complex, 1843–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1900, including: Detached three-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding on a rectangular plan. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rooflights to front (east) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed lime rendered eaves. Limewashed lime rendered walls. Square-headed central carriageway with concealed dressings including lintel framing timber boarded double doors. Square-headed flanking door openings with concealed dressings including lintels framing timber boarded doors. Set in grounds shared with Bonnetstown Hall.

• Bonnetstown Hall, gates/railings/walls, 1735–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1839, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of rusticated limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornices below lichen-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates with cut-limestone cylindrical outer piers having lichen-covered shallow conical capping supporting wrought iron gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Bonnetstown Hall.

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 Bonnetstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Bonnetstown · Baile an Bhoinéisigh

Area

2,333,613 m² (233.36 ha, 576.65 acres)

Civil parish

St. Canice, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

St. Canice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

607 people lived in 197 households in the St. Canice electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardboy, Cappagh, Cloranshea, Deerpark, Dunningstown, Keatingstown, Killaree, Lacken, Newtown

Placenames

Bonnetstown 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.