Furzehouse
Furzehouse is a townland in the civil parish of Outrath, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Tigh na hAitinne.
Parcel 827944
- Area
- 186,364 m² (18.64 ha, 46.05 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Furzehouse
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- KK019-046 Enclosure
Description
Indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 40m NNE-SSW and ESE-WNW) with a field boundary running N-S immediately outside the W side, it appears to have kinked out to avoid the monument. The enclosure is not indicated on the 1945-6 revision of the 6-inch map, suggesting the monument had been levelled between 1840 and 1945. It is not visible on satellite imagery. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 October 2020
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
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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
- 120.7 ha
- 298 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Furzehouse, from 20 m² to 358,657 m² (35.87 ha, 88.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Furzehouse 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
12 Sept 2026N/a
to build a single storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660584
11 Jul 2025N/a
for development at this site. The development will consist of the erection of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank, percolation area, and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560422
4 Jul 2025N/a
for the erection of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank, percolation area, and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560405
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Furzehouse.
Recorded monuments
- KK019-046 Enclosure
Description
Indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 40m NNE-SSW and ESE-WNW) with a field boundary running N-S immediately outside the W side, it appears to have kinked out to avoid the monument. The enclosure is not indicated on the 1945-6 revision of the 6-inch map, suggesting the monument had been levelled between 1840 and 1945. It is not visible on satellite imagery. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 October 2020
- KK023-021 Enclosure
Description
A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 30m NE-SW and NW-SE) is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a well c. 20m to the NE and a small pond c. 30m to the N. On the 1947 revision of the OS 6-inch map the enclosure is indicated as circular (diam. 30m) with a field boundary running N from the NNW sector and SSE from the SSW sector. The enclosure was levelled c. 1984, however, the outline of the fosse is visible on satellite imagery (OPW Correspondence, 2 February 1984; Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 26 July 2021). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 July 2021
- KK023-111 Enclosure
Description
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on aerial photographs (ASIAP (105) 5-9, 22 July 2000). A smaller enclosure (KK023-114----), also visible as a cropmark, appears to be later than, and slightly overlies the SW quadrant of, the larger enclosure. See attached: KK023-111----_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (105) 6, 22 July 2000) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 September 2021
- KK023-112 Enclosure
Description
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on aerial photographs (ASIAP (105) 1-4, 22 July 2000; GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996). There is also a sub-circular enclosure (KK023-127----) adjoining to the W, with a further rectilinear enclosure (KK023-128----) conjoined with the later to the NW. There is a ring-ditch (KK023-129----) c. 5m NW of the sub-circular conjoined enclosure. See attached: KK023-112----_01 aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 September 2021
- KK023-114 Enclosure
Description
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on aerial photographs (ASIAP (105) 5-9, 22 July 2000). A larger enclosure (KK023-111----), also visible as a cropmark, appears to be earlier than, and slightly underlies the NE quadrant of this smaller enclosure. See attached: KK023-114----_01 aerial photograph (ASIAP (105) 6, 22 July 2000) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 September 2021
- KK023-127 Enclosure
Description
An aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996) shows a cropmark of a sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing SW; a conjoined rectangular enclosure (KK023-128----) with an entrance facing NW extends to the N. The sub-circular enclosure is conjoined to the E with a circular enclosure (KK023-112----). A ring-ditch (KK023-129----) is located c. 5m NW of the sub-circular enclosure. See attached: KK023-127----_01 aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of revised upload: 8 September 2021
- KK023-128 Enclosure
Description
An aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996) shows a cropmark of a sub-circular enclosure (KK023-127----) defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing SW; a conjoined rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 12m NW-SE) with an entrance facing NW extends to the N. The sub-circular enclosure is conjoined to the E with a circular enclosure (KK023-112----). A ring-ditch (KK023-129----) is located c. 5m NW of the sub-circular enclosure. See attached: KK023-128----_01 aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of revised upload: 8 September 2021
- KK023-129 Ring-ditch
Description
An aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996) shows a cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 6m) c. 5m NW of a sub-circular enclosure (KK023-127----). The latter is conjoined with two other enclosures (KK023-112---- and KK023-128----). See attached: KK023-129----_01 aerial photograph (GB96.FW.10, 20 July 1996) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of revised upload: 8 September 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Furzehouse.
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 Furzehouse, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Furzehouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Furzehouse · Tigh na hAitinne
- Area
- 1,207,098 m² (120.71 ha, 298.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Outrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Outrath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 768 people lived in 261 households in the Outrath electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cox's Fields, Grevine East, Kilferagh, Outrath, Raggetsland, Wallslough
- Placenames
- Furzehouse 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.