Grange Upper

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange Upper, from 839 m² to 543,256 m² (54.33 ha, 134.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Grange Upper 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.

• 7 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store, installation of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560332

• 24 Nov 2023Conditional

  for (A) Single storey extensions to existing single storey dwelling, (B) Renovations to existing single storey dwelling (C) Change of use of existing stable building to habitable use and to form part of the existing dwelling and its renovation, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 23254

• 2 Jul 2021Conditional

  to retain a garage and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21568

• 24 Mar 2021Conditional

  of an existing telecommunications support structure previously granted under Local Authority Ref No 14/382 together with associated ground equipment cabinets within a fenced compound located

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21213

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  to retain existing sunroom to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21180

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  is sought to erect a underground slatted tank with silage, fodder pits and associated siteworks

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20627

• 27 Feb 2018Conditional

  for development of a walled silage base, three loose cattle sheds, two roofed feed passages, slatted tank, concrete aprons and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18136

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 Grange Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KK025-002001 Church
  Description

  Midway down a N-facing slope with good views from NW-W-SW. Centrally placed within a rectangular graveyard (KK025-002002-) is a heavily ivy-clad rectangular church (int. dims. 16m E-W x 7m N-S), orientated roughly E-W, constructed of roughly coursed limestone and granite. All the walls (T c. 1.2m) are upstanding (E gable H 1.2m) with the exception of the N wall which survives only to its foundations in places. The church was entered through a round-headed doorway of roughly cut granite at the W end of the S wall. The visible windows include a flat-headed single-light window at the E end of the S wall and a chamfered limestone two-light window at attic level in the W gable. At the E end of the S wall there is an unusual semi-circular bowl-shaped granite piscina (dims. 0.3m x 0.2m; H 0.2m) which projects out of the wall. The upper surface of the piscina is concave with fluting which runs into a circular drainage channel in the wall. There is an aumbry (dims. 0.5m x 0.4m; D 0.3m) with granite surrounds W of the piscina. Within the nave area of the church there is a font (KK025-002003-) and a free-standing octagonal limestone stoup (H 0.5m; max. Wth 0.4m tapering to 0.25m; T of rim 0.5m; circular bowl diam. 0.17m; D 0.13m), which tapers towards the top and bottom. The middle, or widest point, of the stoup is decorated in false relief with a band of crudely executed interlace. See attached photographs: KK025-002001-_01 General view of church and graveyard KK025-002001-_02 Piscina KK025-002001-_03 Stoup Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 February 2022

• KK025-002002 Graveyard
  Description

  Midway down a N-facing slope with good views from NW-W-SW. A rectangular graveyard (int. dims. 33m N-S x 30m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall. All the memorials date to the 18th century or later. Centrally placed within the graveyard is an ivy-clad rectangular medieval church (KK025-002001-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 February 2022

• KK025-002003 Font
  Description

  Within the nave area of the ruined medieval church of Grangesylvia (KK025-002001-) there is a crude rectangular granite font (max. dims. 0.9m x 0.8m; H 0.37m) with rounded corners. The rectangular bowl (int. dims. 0.56m x 0.46m; D 0.15m; rim T 0.18m) contains a square drain-hole (0.08m x 0.08m) at its centre. See attached photographs: KK025-002003-_01 Font with stoup resting within it Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 February 2022

• KK025-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated as a small semi-circular quarry (dims. c. 33m NW-SE; c. 12m NE-SW) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and as a semi-circular enclosure of similar dimensions on the 1900 revision. This may be a quarry which was later misinterpreted by cartographers as an enclosure, or it may be an enclosure and the 1st ed. map may be erroneous. A third possibility is that it is an enclosure which was subsequently quarried. The OS maps give no indication of the continuation of the enclosure on the E side of a townland boundary which runs NW-SE along the E/straight side of the semi-circular feature. This area E of the townland boundary is indicated on both editions of the OS maps as a small tree plantation, which is still visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 24 April 2021). Satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018) shows the feature as a dark semi-circular cropmark, which suggests that this is a filled in quarry. See attached: KK025-004----_01 Satellite imagery (Google Earth imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 February 2022

• KK025-018 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On the N bank of a stream, in pasture. Listed by Prendergast (1955, 10) as a fulacht fia. Satellite imagery (Digitalglobe 2011-2013 and OS Orth Aerial Premium 2013-2018) indicates that the land has subsequently been reclaimed.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grange Upper.

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 Grange Upper, about 1 in 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Grange Upper.

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 Grange Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Grange Upper · Gráinseach na Coille

Area

3,501,223 m² (350.12 ha, 865.17 acres)

Civil parish

Grangesilvia, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Bramblestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

291 people lived in 84 households in the Bramblestown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycabus, Courtnaboghilla, Garryleesha, Gowran Demesne, Grange Lower, Neigham, Powerstown West

Placenames

Grange Upper 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.