Blanchville Demesne

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blanchville Demesne, from 3,019 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 320,940 m² (32.09 ha, 79.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Blanchville Demesne 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct (i) agricultural Storage shed with concrete apron (ii) Manure area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560191

• 23 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a detached domestic garage to the side of the existing two storey dwelling within our courtyard (which is within the curtilage of protected structures) and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21546

• 20 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct agricultural storage shed with concrete apron and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21308

• 17 Apr 2020Conditional

  for development at this site (within the curtilage of a Protected Structure). The development will consist of: Construction of a single storey hipped roof bay window extension to existing ground floor residential unit to existing two storey building and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20243

• 24 Sept 2019Conditional

  for development. The development will consist of construction of a 2 storey dwelling with associated single storey garage, entrance to the public roadway (existing entrance), treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and all other associated site works (within curtilage of a protected structure) at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19684

• 9 Apr 2019N/a

  for development at this site. The development will consist of construction of a 2 storey dwelling with associated single storey garage, entrance to the public roadway (existing entrance), treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and all other associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19231

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a 1 and half storey dwelling with associated single storey garage, entrance to the public roadway, treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and all other associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18848

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 Blanchville Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• KK020-056 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran in ‘Blanchfeilds’ townland and on the Down Survey parish map of 'Blanchevilstown' (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). The terrier accompanying the parish map describes, ‘on Blanchfeildstowne a large Cstle in repaire’ and lists ‘S[i]r Edm[on]d Blanchfeild’ as the proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 416) notes that the castle, 'stood close to the public road, in the lawn of Kearney Castle, Blanchville Demesne, but it has been long razed to the ground'. Its location is generally marked on the 1st (1839) ed. OS map, but on the 1900 revision the position is marked with a cross, roughly where the text ended on the 1st ed. map. It is possible that the 1900 revision was an attempt to provide a definite location based on where the text of the 1st ed. map was placed. It is possible that the location could be up to 100m W/WNW of the indicated cross. See attached: KK020-056----_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) KK020-056----_02 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of 'Blanchevilstown' (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) KK020-056----_03 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) terrier accompanying parish map of 'Blanchevilstown' (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 December 2020

• KK020-082 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 60-65m) defined by a fosse, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (GB90.BN.28, July 1990; ASIAP (16) 24-8, August 1996). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 August 2015

Architectural heritage

• Blanchville House, country house, 1795–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Classical-style country house, built 1800, with single-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront having (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico to ground floor, two-bay two-storey side elevations, and two-bay three-storey parallel range along rear (east) elevation extending into three-bay two-storey return to east. Now in use as guesthouse. Hipped slate roofs (part double-pile (M-profile); gabled to breakfront; pitched to return) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse to basement, rendered quoins to corners, carved cut-limestone surround to pediment having modillions, and cut-limestone shield plaque to tympanum. Square-headed window openings (in elliptical-headed recesses to ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows having three-over-three timber sash windows to basement with wrought iron bars (some three-over-six timber sash windows to parallel range to east). Square-headed door opening under cut-limestone prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico (with half-fluted columns having responsive pilasters on three cut-limestone steps supporting frieze, moulded cornice, blocking course to parapet having raised central recessed panel, and decorative corner finials) with inscribed cut-limestone surround, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.

• Blanchville House, folly, 1845–1850 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay four-stage Tudor Gothic-style bell and clock tower, built 1846-7, on a square plan. Bells removed, 1930. Undergoing restoration, 2004-5. Irregular coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with cut-limestone dressings including stepped clasping corner buttresses rising through carved stringcourse to second stage as octagonal corner piers having carved stringcourses, cut-granite decorative panel to first stage having cut-limestone voussoirs over forming camber relieving arch, cut-granite shield plaque over, cut-limestone shield plaques to second stage, and carved cut-granite stringcourse to top stage supported on carved tapered corbels. Pointed-arch window openings to first stage with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, and carved granite decorative openwork panels. Square-headed window openings to second stage (pointed-arch window opening over entrance) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, mullions forming bipartite cinquefoil-headed arrangement now missing, and carved granite decorative openwork overpanels. Oculus openings to third stage (originally accommodating cast-iron clock faces) with carved cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, and continuous shared hood moulding over forming stringcourse supporting cut-limestone voussoirs. Pointed-arch window openings to top stage with carved cut-granite sills on balustraded aprons, cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, mullions forming bipartite cinquefoil-headed arrangement, and carved granite decorative openwork overpanels. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, and replacement (temporary) timber boarded door, 2004. Set back from road in grounds shared with Blanchville House.

• Blanchville House, farmyard complex, 1795–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, established 1800, including: (i) Detached six-bay single-storey outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set back from road in grounds shared with Blanchville House. (ii) Detached four-bay two-storey outbuilding with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay having elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor. Extensively renovated. Pitched roof on an L-shaped plan (gabled to end bay) with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Ivy-clad unpainted replacement roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings (in camber-headed recess to end bay) with cut-limestone sills, red brick voussoirs to end bay, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening in camber-headed recess with red brick voussoirs, and replacement glazed timber double doors. Elliptical-headed carriageway to end bay with red brick voussoirs, and no fittings. (iii) Remains of detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding originally with series of three camber-headed carriageways. Renovated, c.1900, with openings remodelled possibly to accommodate residential use. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now gone with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Irregular coursed dressed limestone walls. Series of three camber-headed carriageways on dressed limestone piers remodelled, c.1900, to accommodate square-headed window openings in unpainted rendered surrounds over random rubble limestone construction with no sills, and remains of timber casement windows. (iv) Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1900, comprising fluted cylindrical shaft with stringcourse, moulded necking supporting cylindrical head having spout incorporating foliate motif, curvilinear 'cow tail' handle, and capping now missing. Now disused.

• Blanchville House, stables, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey Tudor Revival stable building, built 1846-7, with single-bay two-storey gabled breakfront having box oriel window to first floor, and elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor flanking bays. Extensively renovated and extended comprising two-bay two-storey recessed lower end bay to left to accommodate use as apartments. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to breakfront; gabled to window openings to first floor in form of half-dormer attic) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone chimney stacks, cut-stone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Limestone ashlar walls to main block with cast-iron tie plates to first floor breakfront, cut-limestone shield plaques to gables, and ivy-clad unpainted roughcast walls to end block. Paired elliptical-headed window openings to main block (including to box oriel window on corbelled jetty with hood moulding over, and battlemented parapet on stringcourse; some in single arrangement) in square-headed frames with cut-granite flush surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions, and four-over-four timber sash windows having six-over-six timber sash windows to ground floor. Tudor-headed door opening to breakfront with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Elliptical-headed carriageways to flanking bays with cut-limestone voussoirs, and replacement glazed timber panelled double doors having fanlights. Pseudo three-centred openings to end bays in elliptical-headed recesses having cut-limestone voussoirs with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, and glazed timber panelled doors. Square-headed window openings to end block (in camber-headed recess to ground floor) with concrete sills, red brick voussoirs to ground floor, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening in camber-headed recess with red brick voussoirs, and glazed timber double doors. Set back from road in grounds shared with Blanchville House.

• Blanchville House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1850, comprising pair of limestone ashlar panelled piers with cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping, iron double gates having spear-headed finials, sections of iron flanking railings on limestone ashlar plinth having spear-head finials, limestone ashlar panelled outer piers with cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping, limestone ashlar curved flanking walls having cut-limestone coping, and limestone ashlar terminating piers with cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Blanchville House.

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 Blanchville Demesne, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blanchville Demesne.

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 Blanchville Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Blanchville Demesne · Diméin an Bhlóinsínigh

Area

729,057 m² (72.91 ha, 180.15 acres)

Civil parish

Blanchvilleskill, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Dunbell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 192 households in the Dunbell electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blanchvillestown, Grove, Rathcash, Rathcash East

Placenames

Blanchville Demesne 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.