Kiltown

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltown, from 79 m² to 333,119 m² (33.31 ha, 82.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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.

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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 Kiltown.

Recorded monuments

• KK005-054001 Church
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope, just off the crest of a flat-topped hill, in very wet, waterlogged, rush infested field. There is a low hill immediately to the SE. There are very good views in all directions except upslope to the N. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 161-2), in this townland, ‘The church stood beside Kiltown road, in a field called the “Grave field.” It “was the second church named in Rome.” (Tradition). No trace whatever of it remains, but the site is marked by a graveyard [KK005-054002-]’. There is no visible trace of the church or graveyard at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 April 2018

• KK005-054002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope, just off the crest of a flat-topped hill, in very wet, waterlogged, rush infested field. There is a low hill immediately to the SE. There are very good views in all directions except upslope to the N. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 161-2), in this townland, ‘The church [KK005-054001-] stood beside Kiltown road, in a field called the “Grave field.” It “was the second church named in Rome.” (Tradition). No trace whatever of it remains, but the site is marked by a graveyard 16 yards long and 10 wide, still used as a burial place for unbaptized children. There are no inscribed head-stones’. The OS Letters (1839) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 45-6 (16)) describes this as, 'a small burial ground used only for still-born children'. There is no visible trace of the church or graveyard at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 April 2018

• KK005-055 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  In the townland of Kiltown, the OS Letters of 1839 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 45) describes, 'the ruin of the chimney of an ancient mansion, said to have belonged to the Brennans. It has the appearance of some antiquity, and it is said that a portion of the adjoining walls existed in the memory of man'. This description is accompanied by a rough sketch of the surviving S gable of the building which shows a large broken out fireplace at ground level, the broken-out masonry continuing up to first-floor level above which there appears to be an off-set, with the scar or coping stones of the roof visible in the masonry of the chimney breast. The chimney itself is diagonally set. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 162) an important branch of the O'Brenans was located in Kiltown and, 'their residence stood a little to the east of the churchyard in a field called the Closhawn, and was known as "Brenan's Castle." One of its gables remained till about 1880; and it is said to have been 25 ft. [7.62m] high and 7ft. [2.13m] thick. Little mounds, &c., show that the castle and surrounding buildings covered fully an acre of ground'. The illustration suggests that this was a two-storey house dating to the late 16th/early 17th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 June 2016

Architectural heritage

• The Cottage, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1900, possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1825, with pair of box bay windows to ground floor flanking central entrance bay, two-bay two-storey single-pile parallel range to north having full-height canted bay to side (east) elevation, and two-bay two-storey single-pile recessed wing to left having single-bay single-storey projecting linking bay to right ground floor. Hipped slate roofs (continuing into half-polygonal section to canted bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having moulded cornices, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves (overhanging eaves to main block having consoles). Ivy-clad painted roughcast walls with unpainted rendered walls to rear (north) elevation, and unpainted rendered walls to parallel range having rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement to main block (including to box bay windows with panelled posts supporting moulded cornices having consoles) with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows having margins (overlights to box bay windows). Square-headed window openings to parallel range with cut-limestone sills, rendered keystones, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with ivy-clad surround, and replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1950. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Detached two-bay single-storey stable building, c.1850, to north with elliptical-headed carriageway to left. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick eaves. Limewashed (whitewashed) random rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins to corners. Square-headed door opening with limewashed (whitewashed) red brick voussoirs, and timber boarded half-door. Elliptical-headed carriageway to left with limewashed (whitewashed) red brick block-and-start surround rising into red brick voussoirs, timber boarded double half-doors having sidepanels, and overpanels.(iii) Detached three-bay single-storey stable building, c.1850, to north. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on red brick eaves. Limewashed (whitewashed) random rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings with timber boarded half-doors.

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 Kiltown, about 1 in 20 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 high, 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 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.

No address of the register names Kiltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Kiltown · Cill Donncha na Cille

Area

2,542,013 m² (254.2 ha, 628.15 acres)

Civil parish

Castlecomer, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Castlecomer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,397 people lived in 928 households in the Castlecomer electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardra, Ballylinnen, Castlecomer, Donaguile, Glenmagoo or Firoda Lower, Skehana

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.