Blanchvillespark

145 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blanchvillespark, from 48 m² to 419,757 m² (41.98 ha, 103.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Blanchvillespark 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.

• 13 May 2026Conditional

  for the following: Permission to retain the conversion of the attached garage to habitable space and for permission to retain bathroom facility in the first floor store. The works include the conversion of the garage doors to pedestrian doors together with all ancillary services at this site

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660280

• 17 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new silage pit, silage apron and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560349

• 21 Feb 2023Conditional

  to retain (A) Alterations to openings to front and side elevations of existing single storey dwelling (B) 2 No Dormer window 3 no rooflights to attic storage area (C) Alterations and enlargement of detached garage (D) Attached canopy to side of existing dwelling, including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2346

• 30 May 2022Conditional

  for the alterations to the existing dwelling house and construction of 3 no. single storey extensions to the front, side and rear along with a new treatment system and all site and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22349

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, bored well, waste water treatment and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21582

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct cubicles shed and all associated site works. Demolition of cubicle shed is also required at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20905

• 15 Dec 2020N/a

  to construct a two storey extension to the side of my house

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20878

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  for the development of a single storey, granny flat extension to the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20488

• 27 Jul 2020Conditional

  for the erection of a domestic garage/store in conjunction with dwelling house granted under planning Register Number 19/919 and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20482

• 12 Jun 2020N/a

  for the erection of a domestic garage / store in conjunction with dwelling house granted under planning Register Number 19/919 and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20357

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, agricultural building, entrance, wastewater treatment system, connection to group water scheme, soakpits and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19919

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  to open 2 agricultural entrances at an existing farmyard and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19850

• 18 Jun 2018Conditional

  to open 2 agricultural entrances construct an extension to the Easyfeed, incorporating a Milking Parlour, Dairy, Plant Room, Easyfeed and 2 slatted tank, and all associated site works at Blanchvillespark, Clifden, Co. Kilkenny

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18401

• 5 Dec 2017Refused

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, agricultural building, entrance, wastewater treatment system, connection to group water scheme, soakpits and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17810

• 7 Jul 2017Conditional

  for the following: 1. To construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling, 2. To construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, 3. To construct a single storey semi-detached garage to the front of existing dwelling, 4. Internal and elevational modifications, 5. To alter existing entrance piers and entrance walls to main vehicular entrance and all associated site developments works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17453

• 27 Mar 2017Conditional

  to build a two storey dwelling house, effluent treatment system with raised bed percolation area, new entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17185

• 9 Mar 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling with modifications to the internal layout, associated elevational changes and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17142

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 Blanchvillespark.

Recorded monuments

• KK020-025001 Church
  Description

  According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 417) within this graveyard (KK020-025002-) known as 'the Church of the Park', there is a rectangular church, '37 ft. [c. 11.2m] long and 17½ ft. [c. 5.3m] wide, on the inside. All its walls collapsed, perhaps centuries ago and only the foundations are now traceable'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-025002 Graveyard
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. as a small enclosure and on the 1900 revision as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) with trees in the interior. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 417), this is the 'most ancient cemetery, locally known as "the Church of Park,". It is described as being, 'surrounded by a wall, but is little better than a wilderness of bushes and briars. None of the inscribed monuments here are old...Interments still take place here' (ibid.). Carrigan describes the associated church (KK020-025001-) as being reduced to wall-footings (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-105 Structure
  Description

  On the W slopes of a knoll surrounded by lower lying land prone to flooding. Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme (Licence no. E3894). Three pits and a post-hole form the outline of a possible structure. A fire pit/hearth with an upper deposit of ash, charcoal and burnt bone and a lower deposit of oxidised sandy silts and heated stones was located 1m to the E and three waste pits were adjacent. A small quantity of flint was recovered. This was technologically diagnostic and dated to the Neolithic period. A small sample of charred hazelnut returned a radiocarbon date of 3660-3380 cal BC (SUERC-30111), placing it in the middle Neolithic. (Jennings 2010, 235, no. 886; Jennings and Coughlan 2011) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2013

• KK020-106 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On level ground in low-lying pasture. Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3913, Area A). A possible trough filled with charcoal and heat-affected stone with several spreads of burnt material in the immediate vicinity. The trough was truncated by later agricultural activity. (Coughlan 2010, 245, 921; Coughlan and Bailey 2011) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 December 2013

• KK020-107 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  On level ground in low-lying pasture. Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3913, Area A). A possible trough filled with charcoal and heat-affected stone with several spreads of burnt material in the immediate vicinity. The trough was truncated by later agricultural activity. (Coughlan 2010, 245, 921; Coughlan and Bailey 2011) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 December 2013

• KK020-108 Structure
  Description

  In a shallow depression. Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3913, Area C). A possible structure (L c. 4m; Wth 2m), subrectangular in shape and best preserved at N, formed by 18 post/slot-holes, aligned E-W with a possible entrance at E and a small annexe also at the E end. There were two internal pits, one of which (L 1m; Wth 0.82m; D 0.4m) was interpreted as a possible trough. A possible hearth was identified c. 2m to the E. A sample from the structure (which was interpreted as a possible sweathouse) returned a radiocarbon date of 1412-1269 cal BC (UBA-12225). A number of irregular features external to the structure were deemed to be associated although their function is unclear. Charcoal from one of two pits c. 12m to the SW returned a date of 1426-1297 cal BC (UBA-12224). A spread of burnt material sealed the structure and post-dated it. A burnt spread (KK020-107----) and a possible fulacht fia (KK020-106----) were excavated 24m and 42m to the SE respectively. (Coughlan 2010, 245, 921; Coughlan and Bailey 2011) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 December 2013

• KK020-111 Burnt mound
  Description

  The remains of this possible burnt mound are represented by an irregular oval mound aligned E-W (17.9m x 10.2m) with an off-center depression located c. 4.3m from E edge (pers. comm. Emmet Byrnes). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 2 May 2017

• KK020-113 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère and Simon Dowling. The enclosure is truncated along the edge of the NE quadrant by a field boundary running NNW-SSE. Another field boundary running NNE-SSW before turning up towards the NW in the W quadrant, crosses the S portion of the enclosure. A medieval church (KK020-025001-) and graveyard (KK020-025002-) are located c. 200m to the SE. See attached photograph: KK020-113----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 December 2019

• KK020-118 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  A large irregular curvilinear enclosure (dims. c. 240m NE-SW; c. 175m NW-SE) which appears to be encompassing a natural hillock, the latter indicated by a 270 foot contour on the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map. Identified on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 8 June 2020) and lidar (Open Topographic Data Viewer; 8 June 2020) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure predates the modern field system, with a field boundary running NE-SW through the centre of the enclosure and other field boundaries running NW-SE from the NE-SW boundary. The enclosure may relate to drainage at the base of the hillock. There is a church (KK020-025001-) and graveyard (KK020-025002-) c. 90m to the NE, an enclosure (KK020-113----) c. 220m to the NW and a fulacht fia (KK020-106----) and excavated features (KK020-107----; KK020-108----) c. 250m to the SE. See attached: KK020-118----_01 Digitalglobe satellite imagery KK020-118----_02 Open Topographic Data Viewer, viewed 8 June 2020 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• Kiln, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay two-stage lime kiln, c.1825, on a square plan. Now disused. Random rubble limestone walls with base batter having dressed limestone tapered buttress piers, and dressed limestone quoins to corners to upper stage (coping now missing). Pointed-segmental-headed oven aperture with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, and lining not visible. Set back from road in grounds of quarry with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone rounded coping.

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 Blanchvillespark, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Blanchvillespark · Páirc an Bhlóinsínigh

Area

3,657,216 m² (365.72 ha, 903.72 acres)

Civil parish

Gowran, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Gowran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,556 people lived in 535 households in the Gowran electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyquirk, Blanchvilleskill, Brickana, Coolgrange, Flagmount North, Flagmount South, Freneystown, Grangehill, Moonhall, Rathcash East, Sheafield North, Talbotshill

Placenames

Blanchvillespark 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.