Carran

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carran, from 504 m² to 346,090 m² (34.61 ha, 85.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carran 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.

• 12 Jun 2026Conditional

  construct a new machinery storage shed along with all associated site works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660365

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a new shed and underground slatted slurry tank to house young stock for the winter months, along with all associated site works. NOTE: At present, the applicant has leased sheds in three separate yards for current stock numbers. The applicant wants to stop leasing sheds and have all stock in one yard to have more efficient use of labour and machinery. The proposed development is also creating extra capacity in slurry storage for the overall farm so that the applicant can make better use of nutrients produced on the farm and spread the slurry when ground conditions and weather are favourable.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460187

• 22 Jul 2022Conditional

  the development will consist/consists of: Laying of underground 38kV medium voltage electrical cables with associated ducting, 7 no. joint bays, with associated communication chambers and ancillary development within the R172, L2646, L2631, L67062 and L2633 public roads and private lands South of the R172. The cable will run for a distance of 5,710m. Approximately 4890 metres of this will be within the public road and approximately 820 metres of cabling will be on private lands located South of the R172 and on lands of the permitted Clashwilliam Solar Farm. The cable will transverse under the Irish Rail Railway within the townland of Highrath and the M9 motorway in the townland of Roughfield through trenchless Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) methods. The underground cable is intended to connect the permitted 38kV substation in Clashwilliam Solar Farm, in Smithstown townland, with the Kilkenny 110kV ESB substation, in Scart townland. The solar farm and 38kV substation were granted permission by Kilkenny County Council pursuant to Planning Registration Reference 20897). Permission is sought for a period of 10 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this Application.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22487

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  for development will consist of a ten year permission for a solar farm on a site of approximately 46.0 hectares consisting of the following up to 293,500m2 of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; electrical substation with electrical control building and associated compound with palisade fence; inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; new internal access tracks and associated drainage infrastructure; new site entrance to the L6235 public local road; CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies the application.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20897

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 Carran.

Recorded monuments

• KK024-022 Moated site
  Description

  Within a small tree plantation, overgrown with trees and scrub. A rectangular enclosure (overall dims. c. 51m NW-SE; c. 48m NE-SW; int. dims. c. 43m NW-SE; c. 37m NE-SW) enclosed by a slight internal bank and wide waterlogged fosse/moat (Wth c. 2.5-3m; D c. 1-1.5m), except on the S side where the fosse is dry and shallower (D c. 0.5m). Small boulders noted in the interior in the NW sector may indicate internal structures. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 September 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carran, 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 Carran.

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

Name

Carran · An Carann

Area

1,164,708 m² (116.47 ha, 287.81 acres)

Civil parish

Dunbell, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Dunbell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 192 households in the Dunbell electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annfield, Carran, Dunbell Big, Holdenstown, Smithstown, Smithstown

Placenames

Carran 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.