Kiltown
Kiltown is a townland in the civil parish of The Rower, barony of Ida, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is An Chill.
Parcel 831871
- Area
- 4,485 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 156 m².
- 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
- Kiltown
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 134.9 ha
- 333 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 6,077 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltown, from 78 m² to 213,189 m² (21.32 ha, 52.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Kiltown 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 Feb 2026Refused
for a storage container using the existing entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660080
9 Aug 2022Conditional
for 1) retention of garage, with a dog run and 2) retention of shed for chickens and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22518
7 Oct 2021Conditional
for a new dormer style /1.5 storey three bedroom dwelling, waste water treatment system, new site entrance to existing private laneway plus all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21846
8 Jun 2021Conditional
for the erection of an extension and alterations to the side of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21496
13 Aug 2020Conditional
for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & garage
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20531
13 Mar 2020Conditional
for retention and completion of portal frame shed for the storage of agricultural machinery and permission for the erection of a lean-to extension to the side of existing shed for the storage of vintage tractor and camper van and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20157
7 Jun 2019Conditional
for proposed single storey ground floor extension to the front, side and rear of existing 2-storey dwelling house, alterations to existing elevations. Alterations to existing internal layout, to include the associated drainage, ground works, landscaping and all associated works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19397
27 Jul 2017Conditional
for a replacement dwelling. The proposed development will consist of: demolition of existing farmhouse ruin and construction of a new 3 bedroom farmhouse including new septic tank, new site entrance & all other ancillary internal and external works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17499
13 Mar 2017Conditional
for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage/store with treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17149
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 Kiltown.
Recorded monuments
- KK033-030001 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KK033-030002 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kiltown.
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 Kiltown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kiltown.
- 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 Kiltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Kiltown · An Chill
- Area
- 1,348,874 m² (134.89 ha, 333.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- The Rower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ida
- Electoral division
- The Rower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 865 people lived in 290 households in the The Rower electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballilogue, Ballinabarney, Ballyfereen, Bishopsknock, Grange, Knockatore, Raheenduff, Rathsnagadan, Rossnanowl, Russellstown
- Placenames
- Kiltown 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.