Ricesland

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ricesland, from 214 m² to 25,200 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ricesland 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.

• 10 Jun 2019Conditional

  for (a) the phased demolition of the existing supermarket building with ancillary stores and offices, and the demolition of the existing canopy over the fuel pumps and (b) for the phased construction of: (i) a new supermarket building comprising of convenience shop with off licence, stores area, staff facilities, public toilets, internal seating area, solid fuel store, plant and bin storage area to the rear of the new building and adjoining 2 no. commercial units with separate entrances, (ii) new canopy over the fuel pumps, (iii) realignment/alterations to the layout of the fuel pumps/islands with additional fuel pump, (iv) new Heavy Goods Vehicles Fuel Pump, located on the south eastern side of the site, (v) new automatic roller car wash, (vi) re-alignment of the boundary and vehicular entrance to the existing hotel car park on the southern corner of the site, (vii) extend the location of the north western boundary, (viii) new exit lane onto the public road at the rear of the proposed building on the northern corner of the site and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19404

• 19 Jan 2018Refused

  Extension to Centra Supermarket, extension to forecourt canopy, extra fuel pumps, construct 2 new commercial units, extend carpark and all associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1834

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 Ricesland.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ricesland.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ricesland, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2196 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ricesland · Talamh an Rístigh

Area

81,695 m² (8.17 ha, 20.19 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktopher, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Knocktopher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

543 people lived in 192 households in the Knocktopher electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrettstown, Bowersacre, Knocktopher Abbey, Knocktopher Commons, Whitescastle Lower

Placenames

Ricesland 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.