Bishopsmeadows

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bishopsmeadows, from 15 m² to 76,921 m² (7.69 ha, 19.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 74 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 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing attached flat roofed extension to the side and rear. The construction of a new single story extension to both sides of the existing dwelling, elevational alterations and refurbishment of the existing single story dwelling. including all associated site and landscape works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560464

• 7 Feb 2025Conditional

  to retain two storey rear extension to rear of dwelling, including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2511

• 27 May 2024Unconditional

  of Planning Permission Reference P19/769

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 2465

• 22 Feb 2023Conditional

  to demolish part of the existing front garden wall and convert area into vehicular entrance / driveway along with all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2349

• 15 May 2020Conditional

  to carry out the following works: (1) erect a single and two storey extension, together with elevational changes to the existing dormer dwelling house and demolition of the existing extension, (2) change of use, demolition, alteration and extension of existing vacant commercial workshop to form a detached studio for residential purposes associated with the main dwelling, and within its curtilage (3) demolition of outbuildings and (4) associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20300

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct additions and alterations to existing dwelling which include demolition works of sections of the house and the attached domestic garage with all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19960

• 1 Nov 2019N/a

  for the demolition of an existing garage, construction of a new two storey dwelling house and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19823

• 17 Oct 2019Conditional

  to demolish part of existing front garden wall and convert area into vehicular entrance/driveway along with all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19769

• 3 May 2018Conditional

  Retention and continuance of use of timber structure (24.7 sqm) and toilet pod (4.1 sqm) for uses incidental to the main house and for the use of these structures for short term letting / bed and breakfast type use as part of the overall property at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18273

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of alterations and additions to existing dwelling comprising demolition of existing garage to side of dwelling, proposed ground and first floor extension to side and rear of dwelling, proposed porch to front and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1890

• 14 Nov 2017Conditional

  to demolish part of existing front garden wall and convert area into vehicular entrance/driveway along with all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17746

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bishopsmeadows.

Architectural heritage

• Ard Soluis, house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey Edwardian Revival house, built 1936, with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays having two-storey shallow bowed bay windows. Refenestrated. Now also in use as offices. Pitched artificial slate roofs (gabled to end bays) with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, decorative timber bargeboards to gables having finials to apexes, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves having decorative clasps. Red brick English Garden Wall bond walls to ground floor with rendered stringcourse over, and painted roughcast walls to first floor. Square-headed window openings (including to shallow bow bay windows on clay tiled panel to first floor having frieze over with consoles supporting painted iron-clad ogee dome having finial to apex) with concrete sills, red brick voussoirs to ground floor (some having terracotta hood mouldings over), and replacement uPVC casement windows. Segmental-headed door opening with red brick surround, moulded reveals, replacement timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers, and overlight. Round-headed door opening to side (north-west) elevation in round-headed open internal porch with glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site having painted roughcast walls with red brick coping, and red brick Running bond piers having replacement timber boarded double gates.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2183 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Bishopsmeadows with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Bishopsmeadows · Móinéar an Easpaig

Area

128,703 m² (12.87 ha, 31.8 acres)

Civil parish

St. Canice, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Kilkenny No. 2 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkenny No. 2 Urban electoral division: 4,118 people in 1,675 households; 51% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Friarsinch, Gardens, Jamespark, Talbotsinch

Placenames

Bishopsmeadows 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.