Dunmorepark

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunmorepark, from 260 m² to 163,706 m² (16.37 ha, 40.45 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Dunmorepark 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.

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460621

• 20 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for the indefinite retention of a building, housing two stables and a book room and all associated site works. Planning Permission to construct a single storey extension and over hanging roof canopy to the side of the existing two storey dwelling

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460558

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  to retain indefinitely an existing single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22445

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 Dunmorepark.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunmorepark.

Architectural heritage

• Dunmore Park, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, c.1825, possibly over basement on a symmetrical plan with three-bay single-storey lean-to flanking wings on curved plans terminating in single-bay double-height pavilions on square plans. Part reroofed, c.1950. Mostly refenestrated. Now in residential use. Hipped roof to main block with replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Lean-to slate roofs to remainder behind parapets with red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and concealed rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast walls to main block with random rubble stone walls to remainder having remains of unpainted render over, slight batter to pavilions, and cut-limestone stringcourse supporting unpainted rendered battlemented parapets. Square-headed window openings to main block with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining some two-over-two timber sash windows. Pointed-arch window openings to remainder in pointed-arch recesses with timber sills, red brick voussoirs, and timber casement windows having overlights. Segmental-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers, and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds.

• Dunmore Park, farmyard complex, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, post-1840, including:(i) Detached eighteen-bay two-storey outbuilding on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard comprising eight-bay two-storey range with ten-bay two-storey perpendicular range. Hipped slate roofs on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having iron brackets. Random squared rubble limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with no sills, tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, and louvered timber panel fittings having some tongue-and-groove timber panelled fittings. Square-headed door openings with tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having voussoirs, and timber boarded doors having overlights. Set back from road in grounds shared with Dunmore Park (House).(ii) Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding about a courtyard with series of five elliptical-headed carriageways. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having iron brackets. Random squared rubble limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Series of five elliptical-headed carriageways with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, and no fittings.(iii) Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1900, to courtyard comprising cylindrical base supporting fluted cylindrical shaft having spout (collecting into cut-limestone trough), curvilinear 'cow tail' handle, and fluted domed capping on moulded course.

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 Dunmorepark, about 1 in 20 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_2181 (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.

No address of the register names Dunmorepark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Dunmorepark · Páirc an Dúin Mhóir

Area

484,864 m² (48.49 ha, 119.81 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Dunmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

675 people lived in 236 households in the Dunmore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baun, Dunmore, Dunmorepark, Loughmerans, Radestown North

Placenames

Dunmorepark 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.