Castle Ellis

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castle Ellis, from 447 m² to 213,126 m² (21.31 ha, 52.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Castle Ellis 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.

• 22 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a single-storey dwelling house and new vehicular entrance, install new sewage treatment system and percolation area, new borehole well for fresh water and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560366

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  for proposed extension comprising of a single storey mainstream classroom with en-suite toilets, one bathroom for assisted users, a single storey staff room, internal modifications and all associated site developments works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18756

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 Castle Ellis.

Recorded monuments

• KK020-059 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In flat marshy field, subsequently reclaimed, c. 40m of an E-W flowing stream which flows into the River Barrow, on the W edge of Gowran village. Described in the OS Namebooks (O'Donovan et al. c. 1840) as, 'Tobar bhaiste an phoill = Baptism well of the hole or pit...A holy well...said to be the best water in all Ireland: it being measured and weighed by an Englishman who pronounced it such'. According to Drennan (1965, 53) the well was used for religious purposes before the piped water supply was installed. A circular concrete wall with rounded top encloses the well, with a metal gate in the entrance gap. See attached photograph (7 July 1992) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 December 2020

Architectural heritage

• Gowran National School, school, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay double-height national school, dated 1900, on a symmetrical plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves having timber consoles. Painted rendered walls with cut-limestone date stone/plaque. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows. Pair of square-headed door openings with cut-limestone steps, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Set back from line of road with tarmacadam verge to front.

• Bastionfort Well, holy well, 1690–1710 · Regional interest
  Description

  Holy well, c.1700, with random rubble stone retaining wall on a circular plan having rounded coping, and wrought iron gate. Set back from road.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castle Ellis.

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

Name

Castle Ellis · Caisleán Eilís

Area

793,762 m² (79.38 ha, 196.14 acres)

Civil parish

Gowran, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Gowran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gowran electoral division: 1,556 people in 535 households; 78% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashwilliam Upper, Clover, Earlsbog Commons, Gallowshill, Gowran, Sheafield South, Talbotshill

Placenames

Castle Ellis 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.