Reviewfields
Reviewfields is a townland in the civil parish of St. Patrick's, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is An Bán Mór.
Parcel 823515
- Area
- 33 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G5 Amenity / Green links/Biodiversity conservation/ Open Space/Recreation (Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
- Townland
- Reviewfields
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2184 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 56.6 ha
- 140 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 7,053 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reviewfields, from 33 m² to 222,863 m² (22.29 ha, 55.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
- P1Agriculture
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity / Green links/Biodiversity conservation/ Open Space/Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 2 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
18 Mar 2026N/a
for (1) Retention Permission, to retain indefinitely an existing Assembly/Sports Hall building, associated car parking and hardstanding areas, foul and surface water drainage connections and all associated works and (2) Planning permission for a change of use of the existing Assembly/Sports Hall building from private amenity to public use at The St. Patrick’s Centre. The development consists of works within the curtilage of two structures which are recorded on National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH Ref. No. 12401904 and 12401918)
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660153
10 Jun 2025Conditional
The proposed development comprises of the installation of a foul sewer pump station and new connection to public foul sewer at Kells Road Roundabout via the existing St Patrick School rising main, and associated site works, within the lands at St. Patricks Accommodation Centre
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560338
27 Sept 2024N/a
for change of use from former convent to administration and training centre, including alterations to existing car park layout, provision of additional carparking spaces and ancillary related works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460459
31 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission is sought for the construction of a single-storey extension (height of 7.2m approx. ) to the existing school, also undertake internal alterations to the existing school building. These proposed works comprise of reconfiguration of existing building elevation, relocated entrance lobby and new entrance canopy, six classroom special needs unit and central activities area, all ancillary pupil and staff facilities, new bike shelter, car parking spaces, hard and soft play areas and landscaping, the removal of trees to accommodate new site layout and new attenuation tank, roof surface PV panels, complete with all related site works at the St. Patrick’s Special School, Kells Road, Kilkenny, on our site at St. Patrick’s Special School, Kells Road, Kilkenny, R95 KW26 (Townland of Reviewfields) in the attendant ground of a protected structure NIAH register numbers 12401918 and 12401904.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360391
27 Jul 2023N/a
is sought for the construction of a single-storey extension (height of 7.2m approx. ) to the existing school, also undertake internal alterations to the existing school building. These proposed works comprise of reconfiguration of existing building elevation, relocated entrance lobby and new entrance canopy, six classroom special needs unit and central activities area, all ancillary pupil and staff facilities, new bike shelter, car parking spaces, hard and soft play areas and landscaping, the removal of trees to accommodate new site layout and new attenuation tank, roof surface PV panels, complete with all related site works at the St. Patrick’s Special School, Kells Road, Kilkenny, on our site at St. Patrick’s Special School, Kells Road, Kilkenny, R95 KW26 (Townland of Reviewfields) in the attendant ground of a protected structure NIAH register numbers 12401918 and 12401904.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360348
5 Nov 2019Conditional
for: (a) the installation of a foul sewer pump station and associated site works at St Patrick's School, Kells Road, Kilkenny R95 KW26 (townland of Reviewfields): (b) the laying of a pumped rising main approximately 500m long along Kells Road (R697) and (c) a new connection to the existing public foul sewer system at the Kells Road Roundabout
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19831
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Reviewfields.
Recorded monuments
- KK019-138 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a fosse, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (20) 9-12, 2 August 1996). There is a fosse running concentrically with the N-NE sector c. 25-30m from the enclosure, this may be an other enclosure or could be part of an associated field system. The cropmark of a field system (KK019-142----) is also visible forming a large roughly rectangular enclosure which runs northeastward from the inner enclosure. See attached: KK019-138----_01 ASIAP (20) 12, 2 August 1996 KK019-138----_02 ASIAP (20) 11, 2 August 1996 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 22 October 2020
- KK019-142 Field system
Description
In tillage. The cropmark of a field system is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (20) 11-12, 2 August 1996). The field system consists of a large roughly rectangular enclosure which runs northeastward from a circular enclosure (KK019-138----), also identified as a cropmark on the aerial photographs. A fosse runs concentrically with the N-NE sector of the enclosure and c. 25-30m from it, this may be an other enclosure or could be part of the associated field system. See attached: KK019-142----_01 ASIAP (20) 12, 2 August 1996 KK019-142----_02 ASIAP (20) 11, 2 August 1996 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 October 2020
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's Centre, industrial school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Detached nine-bay two-storey Jacobean Revival industrial school with dormer attic, built 1861, possibly over basement with single-bay two-storey gabled entrance breakfront, three-bay two-storey recessed lateral wings incorporating single-bay two-storey gabled central bays, single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays having two-storey box bay window to right, three-bay two-storey side (south) elevation having single-bay two-storey linking breakfront, seven-bay two-storey side (north) elevation having single-bay two-storey gabled breakfront, and three-bay two-storey recessed range continuing into fifteen-bay two-storey lower wing to west. Part refenestrated. Now in use as centre. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to breakfronts and to advanced bays behind parapets) with clay ridge tiles, paired cut-granite chamfered flues (some grouped in three-part arrangement) on cut-granite bases having chamfered stringcourses, cut-limestone gabled bellcote to breakfront to end bay to left (on cut-limestone stringcourse with round-headed aperture having chamfered reveals, cast-iron bell, and cut-stone coping having cross finial to apex), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves. Tooled limestone ashlar walls (coursed tooled squared limestone walls to wing to west) with cut-granite dressings including quoins to corners, and coping to curvilinear gabled parapets having finials (swept recessed panel to gable to entrance breakfront with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals, mullion forming bipartite camber-headed arrangement, and cut-limestone plaques). Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (in tripartite arrangement to box bay window) with cut-granite sills, cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals (yellow brick block-and-start surrounds to wing to west), and timber casement windows having one-over-one timber sash windows to first floor side elevations (six-over-six timber sash windows to wing to west having some replacement uPVC casement windows). Round-headed door opening on cut-limestone step with cut-granite surround incorporating archivolt having decorative keystone, timber panelled double doors having sidelights, and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds.
- Saint Patrick's Centre, church/chapel, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Attached eight-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic chapel, c.1875, with single-bay single-storey chapels to north and to south having three-bay single-storey sacristy to south, single-bay double-height lower chancel to west, and single-bay two-storey lower linking bay to north-east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch. Refenestrated, c.1975. Now in use as centre. Pitched slate roofs (hipped to chapels, to sacristy, and to linking bay) with clay ridge tiles (decorative clay ridge tiles to nave), cut-limestone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having corbels. Pitched (gabled) glazed roof to porch in timber frame with decorative cresting to gable having cross finial to apex. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered buttresses having cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone flush sills, and replacement fixed-pane timber windows, c.1975, having casement sections. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel with cut-limestone flush sill, hood moulding over, chamfered reveals, mullions forming five-part trefoil-headed arrangement having decorative overlights, fixed-pane timber fittings having leaded stained glass panels, fixed-pane timber secondary (outer) glazing, c.1975, trefoil-window opening to gable having chamfered reveals, and replacement fixed-pane timber fitting, c.1975. Rose window to east with hood moulding over, mullions forming trefoil-headed openings centred on rosette, and fixed-pane fittings. Square-headed openings to porch with fixed-pane timber fittings, and fixed-pane overlight to gable. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Patrick's Centre.
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 Reviewfields, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2168 (ZIP).
- 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 Reviewfields with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Reviewfields · An Bán Mór
- Area
- 565,772 m² (56.58 ha, 139.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Patrick's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 18,603 people lived in 6,480 households in the Kilkenny Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Archersleas, Ardscradaun, Birchfield, Donaghmore, Goslingstown, Maidenhill, Smithsland North
- Placenames
- Reviewfields 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.