Castlecolumb
Castlecolumb is a townland in the civil parish of Knocktopher, barony of Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Caisleán Chill Cholm.
Parcel 824480
- Area
- 157,511 m² (15.75 ha, 38.92 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 89 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
- Castlecolumb
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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2196 (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
- 147.2 ha
- 364 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 8,681 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecolumb, from 58 m² to 402,722 m² (40.27 ha, 99.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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
No zone of a development plan covers Castlecolumb 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission for retention for garage as constructed and as converted to granny flat with link corridor to the original dwelling house, retention of conservatory to rear of dwelling house and altered site layout with entrance located as shown on site plans, including all necessary site works.
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360246
18 May 2022Conditional
for a new 246.25m2 single storey four bedroom dwelling, waste water treatment system, new site entrance plus all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22323
28 Sept 2021Conditional
garage as constructed, including all necessary site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21809
16 Mar 2020Conditional
for a new domestic garage/store and home office plus a new one bedroom family flat attached to our existing dwelling
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20168
4 Sept 2017Conditional
for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house, detached domestic garage, treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17572
2 Jun 2017Conditional
permission for the construction of a new milking parlour dairy, holding yard and animal handling unit along with underground slurry tank and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17369
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- KK031-016 Castle - tower house
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KK031-016001 Bawn
Description
In tillage. A sub-rectangular bawn (dims. c. 74m NE-SW; c. 53m NW-SE at S end, tapering to c. 41m at the N end), visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 24 March 2017; Tailte Éireann, 2001 to 2005 MapGenie) identified and reported by Deon Walsh. Castle Columb Castle, a tower house (KK031-016----), is within the interior, near the W angle, being c. 7m N of the SW line of the bawn and c. 13m E of its NW line. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
- KK031-051002 Chapel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KK031-052001 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KK031-052002 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KK031-052003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KK031-105 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 47m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (OSI Ortho satellite imagery, 2004-2006). A field boundary, indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, ran NW-SE across the S sector of the enclosure but has since been levelled. A concentric enclosure, also visible as a cropmark, is located c. 180m to the SW. See attached imagery: KK031-105----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlecolumb.
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 Castlecolumb, about 1 in 10 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_2210 (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 Castlecolumb with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Castlecolumb · Caisleán Chill Cholm
- Area
- 1,472,095 m² (147.21 ha, 363.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knocktopher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Electoral division
- Knocktopher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 543 people lived in 192 households in the Knocktopher electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydowan, Barrettstown, Baunanattin, Carrigeen, Carrigeen, Danesrath, Derrynahinch, Earlsgrove, Knocktopher Manor, Moanroe Commons, Whitescastle Lower, Whitescastle Upper
- Placenames
- Castlecolumb 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.