Farrantemple

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farrantemple, from 24 m² to 187,358 m² (18.74 ha, 46.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Farrantemple 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Unconditional

  of Planning Permission Ref P20/299

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 2595

• 14 May 2020Conditional

  to erect a new single storey private dwelling house, to form new entrance to public road, to provide new treatment plant and percolation area together with all other associated site works to lands

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20299

• 15 Feb 2018Unconditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Permission Reference P12/413

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 18101

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 Farrantemple.

Recorded monuments

• KK033-031001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of a ridge in good grassland, c. 30m E of a church (KK033-032001-) and graveyard (KK033-032002-). Listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Ecclesiastical enclosure, possible’. Indicated on the OS 1st ed 6-inch map and on the 25-inch map as a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 80m). Clearly visible on Bing aerial photography (accessed 11 February 2013) as a subcircular area (c. 85m NW-SE; c. 75m SW-NE). Carrigan (1905, 126) refers to this as a large rath, levelled in 1860, and notes the foundations of a castle (KK033-031002-) in the interior. On inspection in 1989 it was found to be enclosed by a degraded bank (Wth 7m; H 0.3m) and external fosse (Wth 5-6m; D 0.4m). A raised area in the S quadrant (max. dims. 12m N-S; 10m E-W) was noted. The adjacent church was built in 1800 on the site of an earlier church (KK033-032001-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 February 2013

• KK033-031002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of a ridge in good grassland, c. 30m E of a church (KK033-032001-) and graveyard (KK033-032002-). Listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Castle, site’. Carrigan (1905, 126) noted the foundations of a castle in the interior of a large ‘rath’ (see possible ecclesiastical enclosure KK033-031001-). On inspection in 1989 a raised area (max. dims. 12m N-S; 10m E-W) was noted in the S quadrant of the possible ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 February 2013

• KK033-032001 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK033-032002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK033-032003 Graveslab
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK033-056 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly oval enclosure (overall dims. c. 66m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 13 April 2020), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached photograph: KK033-056----_01 Satellite image (Google Earth, 13 April 2020) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 July 2022

Architectural heritage

• The Rower Church, church/chapel, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, c.1800, with single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. In use, 1903. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now gone with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-stone eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet (presumed to be gone). Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction (exposed in parts where render disintegrated) with Irish battlemented parapet to tower having cut-stone coping. Window openings to nave (profile not discernible under ivy) with cut-stone sills, and cut-stone surround to east (now blocked-up with unpainted render over). Pointed-arch openings to upper stages to tower with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and remains of louvered panel fittings to top (bell) stage (now blocked-up to second stage with unpainted render over). Square-headed door opening to tower with carved cut-granite surround having keystone (now blocked-up with unpainted roughcast over). Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site (one inscribed stone dated 1692) incorporating camber-headed gateway having squared rubble stone piers, red brick voussoirs, wrought iron gate, and rubble stone parapet over.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, c.1800-present.

• The Presbytery, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1843–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, extant 1895, on an F-shaped plan; single-bay (west) or four-bay (east) two-storey side elevations centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1997. Renovated, 1998. Hipped slate roof on an F-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, paired fine roughcast central chimney stacks having cut-granite stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement extruded aluminium rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Fine roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with two cut-granite steps, timber doorcase with fluted monolithic pilasters supporting dentilated cornice, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows. Round-headed central window opening (north) with sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash window without horns having fanlight. Interior including (ground floor): central vestibule retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having capping supporting flat iron double gates.

• Kehoe's, shop/retail outlet, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay single-storey commercial building, c.1950. Part refenestrated, c.1975. Now disused. Pitched roof behind parapet with painted corrugated-iron having iron ridges, rooflight, and concealed iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered chamfered piers supporting painted roughcast parapet having raised lettering, and rendered coping. Square-headed window openings in square-headed recesses with rendered sills, painted red brick voussoirs, and fixed-pane (two-light) timber display windows having one replacement fixed-pane timber display window, c.1975. Square-headed door opening in square-headed recess with painted red brick voussoirs, and glazed timber panelled door. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

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 Farrantemple, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farrantemple.

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

Name

Farrantemple · Fearann an Teampaill

Area

611,359 m² (61.14 ha, 151.07 acres)

Civil parish

The Rower, and its townlands

Barony

Ida

Electoral division

The Rower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

865 people lived in 290 households in the The Rower electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinabarney, Ballynunry, Bishopsknock, Carranroe Upper, Mungan, Raheenduff

Placenames

Farrantemple 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.