Foulkstown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foulkstown, from 427 m² to 170,995 m² (17.1 ha, 42.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• C2.1Industrial/Warehousing (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 25 Feb 2026N/a

  for an artificial turf training pitch with flood lighting, a roofed paddle court, tarmacadam walkway with lighting and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660108

• 27 May 2020Conditional

  is sought for a change to extension to existing dressing rooms from previously granted planning permission ref. no. P.17/841 and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20326

• 24 Jun 2019Refused

  of an existing, part single - part two-storey building and for the retention of the use of this structure as a sporting gymnasium. The application also includes the retention of the following: (i) an area of hardstanding which encircles the premises and its use for the parking purposes, (ii) security palisade fending which both bounds the site and abuts the building, (iii) a connection to the public water supply system, (iv) an on-site foul drainage system, (v) a vehicular entrance off the National Primary Road N10 onto which this site fronts and (vi) advertisement signage

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19442

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  to build an extension to existing dressing rooms and to erect flood lighting and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17841

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 Foulkstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foulkstown.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1851, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, single-bay double-height chancel to west having two-bay single-storey sacristy to south-west, and single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to east. Renovated. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (gabled to porch) with decorative clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone cross finials to apexes, and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners, gabled corner finials to west rising into polygonal pinnacles, unpainted replacement render to transepts, to chancel, and to sacristy having rendered quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to porch with cut-limestone surround, mullion forming bipartite trefoil-headed arrangement having trefoil over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having voussoirs, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Round-headed window openings to sacristy with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Full-height interior with glazed timber panelled internal porch to west having timber panelled gallery over. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1851-present.

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 Foulkstown, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Foulkstown · Baile an Phúcaigh

Area

532,150 m² (53.22 ha, 131.5 acres)

Civil parish

Outrath, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Outrath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

768 people lived in 261 households in the Outrath electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalina, Birchfield, Grevine East, Outrath, Springhill

Placenames

Foulkstown 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.