Sraghgaddy
Sraghgaddy is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacahill, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Srath an Ghadaí.
Parcel 852219
- Area
- 167,844 m² (16.78 ha, 41.48 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,772 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
- Sraghgaddy
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Mar 2025Conditional
to construct Loose shed and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560133
11 Mar 2024Conditional
to construct slatted shed with underground slurry tanks and all associated site works. Demolition of open slurry tank also required 1.18
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460116
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 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 low, partly inferred.
- 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.
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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
- 127 ha
- 314 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 22,493 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sraghgaddy, from 314 m² to 177,703 m² (17.77 ha, 43.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Sraghgaddy 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
19 Mar 2025Conditional
to construct Loose shed and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560133
11 Mar 2024Conditional
to construct slatted shed with underground slurry tanks and all associated site works. Demolition of open slurry tank also required 1.18
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460116
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 Sraghgaddy.
Recorded monuments
- KK020-026 Fulacht fia
Description
Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. These have not been individually located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020
- KK020-026001 Fulacht fia
Description
Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. Though these fulacht fia have not been individually located, a circular mound (diam. c. 25m) is visible on a satellite image (Digitalglobe, viewed 24 November 2020) in this area which may be one of the fulacht fia. See attached: KK020-026001-_01 Digitalglobe image, viewed 24 November 2020 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020
- KK020-026002 Fulacht fia
Description
Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. These have not been individually located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020
- KK020-026003 Fulacht fia
Description
Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. These have not been individually located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020
- KK020-026004 Fulacht fia
Description
Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. These have not been individually located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020
- KK020-026005 Fulacht fia
Description
Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. These have not been individually located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020
- KK020-026006 Fulacht fia
Description
Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. These have not been individually located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sraghgaddy.
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 Sraghgaddy, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sraghgaddy.
- 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 Sraghgaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Sraghgaddy · Srath an Ghadaí
- Area
- 1,270,177 m² (127.02 ha, 313.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacahill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gowran
- Electoral division
- Shankill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 929 people lived in 305 households in the Shankill electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvally, Ballyquirk, Garryduff, Newhouse
- Placenames
- Sraghgaddy 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.