Garrincreen

181 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrincreen, from 1 m² to 171,692 m² (17.17 ha, 42.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 192 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity / Green links/Biodiversity conservation/ Open Space/Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK019-014001 Church
  Description

  On W-facing slope, a stream runs N-S c. 180m to the W. The church, orientated ENE-WSW, is situated in the S portion of the roughly rectangular graveyard (KK019-014002-). There are good views to S-W-NW. Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 263) as, ‘Temple-Fennell’, who states that, ‘The name by which this church is now generally known is the “Church of Gorrychreen”, that is, the Church of the Field of the Withered Tree; but some of the old people still call it “Fennell’s Church,” recte Fennell Church. It is mentioned in the Red Book of Ossory as “ffynnel,” “Fynel,” “ffynel,” and “ffynell.”’. The church was still relatively intact in the early 19th century when described in the OS Letters (1839) as, ‘The gables and small portions only of the side walls remain. It was sixty nine feet [21m] long and twenty three and a half [7.16m] broad. There is a window in the west gable but it is so thickly covered with strong ivy that none of its architectural features can be seen. There are two curvilineal pointed windows in the east gable, seven feet [c. 2.1m] high and three feet eight inches [1.12m] wide inside. The front broken away but the arch stone in each alone. It is rather a modern building remarkable for nothing but its having been often seen to go to the neighbouring stream to drink water at night and come back again. There is no burying ground here’ (O’Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 2, 81). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 263) notes that the walls are ’23 ft. in width [7m]. There was a doorway in the south wall, 13 ft. [c. 3.9m] from the east end, but only one of the casing stones, a cut and chamfered block of freestone or grit, remains in situ. All the windows have been destroyed’. When visited in 1994 only the sod-covered wall-footings of the rectangular church (int. dims. 15.5m E-W x 7m N-S) were visible, with the gables surviving to a maximum H of 0.75m. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 September 2020

• KK019-014002 Graveyard
  Description

  On W-facing slope, a stream runs N-S c. 180m to the W. The church (KK019-014001-), orientated ENE-WSW, is situated in the S portion of the roughly rectangular graveyard (int. dims 15.5m E-W x 45m N-S). There are good views to S-W-NW. According to the OS Letters (1839) as, ‘There is no burying ground here’ (O’Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 2, 81). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 263) notes that, 'There is no appearance of any graveyard now, though interments took place within living memory; there are no monuments. Part of the strong earthen rampart, originally enclosing the plot containing the church church, yet remains'. O'Kelly (1969, 91) describes the enclosing graveyard as, 'a rath-like quadrangle of roughly ¼ acre with a surrounding fosse'. Tradition indicates that a Mass Path lead from church grounds to a bridge c. 170m to the NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 September 2020

• KK019-147 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 63m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW), defined by a wide fosse (Wth c. 3m) which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached imagery: KK019-147----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garrincreen, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2192 (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 Garrincreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Garrincreen · Garraí an Chrainn

Area

467,845 m² (46.78 ha, 115.61 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

18,603 people lived in 6,480 households in the Kilkenny Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blanchfieldsland, Brownstown, Charterschool Land, Kingsland, Leggetsrath West, Newpark Upper

Placenames

Garrincreen 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.