Prologue

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prologue, from 20 m² to 44,377 m² (4.44 ha, 10.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space / GI (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  to erect a temporary new garden storage shed

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 24125

• 14 Dec 2022N/a

  for the material change of use from commercial use as a Post Office to residential use as a granny flat and utility extension to the existing dwelling

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22784

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  to indefinitely retain a kitchen extension, a first-floor bedroom extension (a previous planning permission ref: 1/1/3342 was for the first-floor bedroom location to be at the front of the building) and external roof lights to the kitchen. To retain a Lobby/toilet extension to the rear of the post office at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22389

• 11 Nov 2020Conditional

  to carry out alterations to existing house to include for new single/two storey rear/side extension to incorporate ground floor extended living/dining/kitchen area and first floor bedroom, minor internal alterations to existing house together with all associated site works to property

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20770

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  to indefinitely retain the existing use of part of my dwelling as a sessional pre-school and school age service from a previous use as a residential / shop

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2042

• 20 Jun 2017Conditional

  permission for the construction of: (A) A cluster of 7 no. terraced/semi-detached/detached one and a half-storey housing units with pitched roofs; and (B) All associated site works including shared laundry and covered external circulation spaces. Access to the development is via the existing Workhouse Lane off the Clonmel Road. The former Union Workhouse is included in the Record of Protected Structures (Reference: C43). Four of the units are funded under the Department of Environment, Community, and local Government Capital Assistance Scheme for Social Housing as part of an inclusive neighbourhood of fully-assessable units for independent and supported self-determined living embedded in the existing support structure of Camphill Community Callan.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17399

• 9 Jun 2017N/a

  for the construction of: (A) A cluster of 7 no. terraced/semi-detached/detached one and a half-storey housing units with pitched roofs; and (B) All associated site works including shared Laundry and covered external circulation spaces. Access to the development is via the existing Workhouse Lane off the Clonmel Road. The former Union Workhouse is included in the Record of Protected Structures (Reference: C43). Four of the units are funded under the Department of Environment, Community, and Local Government Capital Assistance Scheme for Social Housing as part of an inclusive neighborhood of fully-accessible units for independent and supported self-determined living embedded in the existing support structure of Camphill Community, Callan

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17389

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  for permission for the following: (A) Single-storey extension to existing 2-storey premises consisting of: 1 bedroom own door ground floor residence (unit 1); 2 bedroom own door ground floor residence (unit 2); shared utility area; (B) Alterations to existing 2-storey premises consisting of, 1 bedroom ground floor own door residence (unit 3) including reopening of original window on north façade and adjustment of exit door and provision of landing/steps; 1 bedroom ground floor apartment (unit 4) including changing east facing door to form window to bathroom and provision of additional window to bedroom on garden west side; 1 bedroom first floor apartment (unit 5) and provision of additional window to bedroom on garden west side and new window to bathroom on east side; Other minor internal alterations to existing premises (C) Removal of disused external elevated water storage tank (D) All associated site works at the former Union Workhouse at Prologue, Clonmel Road, Callan, Co. Kilkenny. The former Union Workhouse complex is included in the Record of Protected Structures, Ref. C43.

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 17368

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 Prologue.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Prologue.

Architectural heritage

• Callan Union Workhouse, workhouse, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Union workhouse complex, built 1840-1; dated 1841; opened 1842, including: Detached five-bay two-storey "Front Block" on a H-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan centred on gablets, ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having iron-covered stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters with cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed or snecked rough cut limestone walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with margined tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Tudor-headed central door opening, inscribed margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with shared hood moulding framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and margined tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals with shared hood mouldings framing timber casement windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement casement windows. Square-headed window openings (west) with cut-limestone sills, and repointed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement casement windows. Interior remodelled, ----. Set in relandscaped grounds.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, c.1900, with single-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront. Hipped slate roof (gabled to breakfront) with rolled copper and clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls with rendered channelled piers to corners, and moulded rendered surround to breakfront forming open-bed pediment. Square-headed window openings (Venetian window opening to first floor breakfront) with rendered sills, rendered surrounds (moulded rendered surround to Venetian opening having keystone), and one-over-one timber sash windows having leaded panels to Venetian opening. Square-headed door opening with cut-limestone step, rendered Doric doorcase having engaged columns, frieze supporting entablature, rendered surround, and timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with painted rendered boundary wall having painted rendered panelled piers with moulded cornices supporting rendered capping, and iron double gates.(ii) Detached three-bay single-storey barrel-roofed outbuilding with attic, c.1925, with square-headed carriageway to right. Barrel-vaulted corrugated-iron roof with iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed carriageway to right with replacement iron lifting door, c.1975.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3416 (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.

• Prologue, Callan6 sales

Name

Prologue · An Phrológ

Area

157,495 m² (15.75 ha, 38.92 acres)

Civil parish

Callan, and its townlands

Barony

Callan

Electoral division

Callan Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Callan Urban electoral division: 1,969 people in 747 households; 54% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Callan South, Cannafahy, Coolalong, Foulksrath, Tinnamoona

Placenames

Prologue 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.