Brownstown

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownstown, from 13 m² to 441,200 m² (44.12 ha, 109.02 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 Brownstown 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.

• 30 Jan 2024Conditional

  for a new agricultural entrance from the public road, extension of existing slatted cubicle shed to include cow cubicles, underground slatted slurry storage, robotic milking machines with clean area, dairy plant room, farm office and straw bedded area, relocation of milk bulk tank, clean water tank, meal bin, erection of new wall to existing silage pit, animal handling and drafting area, concrete yards, clean hardcore yards, farm road and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2410

• 29 Sept 2022Conditional

  for a Solar Farm and Storage Park consisting of linear arrays of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels mounted on steel supported structures with associated cabling and ducting (including underground cable connection to the proposed on-site 110kV substation); 50 no. inverter substations, a storage park (including 55 no. containers with cells and 15 no. containers with PCS and inverters); perimeter fencing; 6 no. palisade double security gates; 3 no. temporary construction compound/material storage area; 2 no. steel storage containers; 25 no. turning bays, on-site pole mounted CCTV cameras (at 60 locations); and 2 no. temporary construction stage Moby Dick type wheel wash systems (with over ground settlement tank); and all associated ancillary development services and works, all to be provided within an application boundary of 112ha. Permission is sought for the proposed Solar Farm and Storage Park for a period of 10 years with an operational period of 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for this development and submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22644

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area to a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21759

• 5 Mar 2019Conditional

  for construction of two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19129

• 28 Mar 2018N/a

  for (a) a change of use of an existing farm outbuilding to form a residential granny flat (b) material alterations, internal alterations and elevational changes to the existing farm outbuilding (c) an extension to the existing percolation area serving the existing main private residence on site (d) and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18200

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  to erect a new two storey private residence, new combined access from existing roadway, new treatment plant and associated site works all located on lands

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17251

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 Brownstown.

Recorded monuments

• KK014-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a terrace on the W side of a valley running N-S, with land dropping down to the valley floor to the E, in waterlogged pasture. There are fair to good views in all directions. An oval, raised area (diam. 30m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.2m; Wth 3m) and outer fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m). The monument is very overgrown and the interior waterlogged. Some drainage has been put in at the lower side of the monument (Doyle 1981). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 June 2020

• KK014-071001 Structure
  Description

  On a waterlogged valley floor which is criss-crossed with numerous small streams. Found during land works in 1983, an area of stone paving (max. dims. c. 20m E-W x c. 10m N-S) described as, ‘flat field stones, that seem to be fixed in some hard clay’. The N side is narrower (L c. 16m; Wth 2.7m). A shallow ditch, ‘like a plough furrow’ extended NE-SW from the E and W side (NMI, file IA/158/83). The E trench extends for at least 30m north-eastward to a former marsh. It is not visible at ground level. The function and date of this feature is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 June 2020

• KK014-071002 Cultivation ridges
  Description

  On a waterlogged valley floor which is criss-crossed with numerous small streams. Lazy-beds (Wth c. 2m; H 0.1m) running N-S in an area of drained marshland. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 June 2020

• KK014-121 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a flat very wet valley floor with numerous streams and springs. There are fair views across the valley. A very large fulacht fia composed of black earth and cracked burnt stone identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 June 2020

• KK014-127001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a flat very wet valley floor with numerous streams and springs. There are fair views across the valley. The most westerly of three possible fulachta fia (KK014-127001-/KK014-127002-/KK014-127003-) identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987. They are orientated in a linear roughly E-W arrangement, c. 30m apart. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 June 2020

• KK014-127002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a flat very wet valley floor with numerous streams and springs. There are fair views across the valley. The middle of three possible fulachta fia (KK014-127001-/KK014-127002-/KK014-127003-) identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987. They are orientated in a linear roughly E-W arrangement, c. 30m apart. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 June 2020

• KK014-127003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a flat very wet valley floor with numerous streams and springs. There are fair views across the valley. The most easterly of three possible fulachta fia (KK014-127001-/KK014-127002-/KK014-127003-) identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987. They are orientated in a linear roughly E-W arrangement, c. 30m apart. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 June 2020

• KK014-128 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a flat very wet valley floor with numerous streams and springs. There are fair views across the valley. A possible, partially levelled, fulacht fia identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 June 2020

• KK019-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1945-6 revision. The enclosure had been levelled by 1970 when it was visible as a cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDI037, 14 July 1970). Doyle (1981) describes the circular outline as being easy to trace, 'with its entrance facing south. It was thirty five yards [32m] in diameter'. Satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 10 August 2022) shows a larger enclosure (KK019-148----) immediately to E, either conjoined or the larger enclosure pre-dates the smaller enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 September 2020

• KK019-148 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m NW-SE; c. 31m NE-SW), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 10 August 2022), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. A smaller circular enclosure (KK019-015----), which had been upstanding until c. 1970 and is now visible as a cropmark, is located immediately to the W. The larger enclosure may be conjoined with the smaller enclosure or could possibly pre-date it. See attached imagery: KK019-148----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 10 August 2022 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 June 2023

Architectural heritage

• Coolbricken Bridge, bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble limestone road bridge over stream, c.1850, on site of earlier bridge, pre-1840. Random rubble limestone walls with overgrown rubble limestone parapets. Single arch now overgrown. Sited spanning stream with overgrown grass banks to stream.

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 Brownstown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2191 (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 Brownstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Brownstown · Baile an Bhrúnaigh

Area

2,178,550 m² (217.86 ha, 538.33 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

18,603 people lived in 6,480 households in the Kilkenny Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Archersrath, Charterschool Land, Coolbricken, Garrincreen, Greenridge, Grove or Cramersgrove, Kingsland, Kyleroe, Neworchard, Sandfordscourt

Placenames

Brownstown 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.