Desart Demesne

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Desart Demesne, from 246 m² to 180,026 m² (18 ha, 44.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Desart Demesne 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.

• 19 May 2026Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT A PART 2 STOREY AND PART SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, WASTEWATER SYSTEM, BOREHOLE, SOAKPITS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660299

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  to build a 1.5 storey dwelling, domestic garage, entrance and install waste water treatment system including associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19809

• 7 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the construction of an agricultural slatted unit for use as a boar stud training facility, the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a detached domestic garage, associated waste water treatment systems, bored wells along with all site and ancillary works. The application will also include for the demolition of existing sub-standard sheds and a derelict dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19558

• 7 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a two storey, four-bedroom dwelling house, a detached garage, a new site entrance, a new septic tank and a percolation area and all associated site works on lands at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18738

• 1 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the refurbishment and two storey extension to the existing single storey dwelling. The existing portion of the extended dwelling is proposed to be used as a granny flat. To provide a new effluent treatment system with raised bed/polishing filter and all associated site works on lands at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18726

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  for retention of former milking parlour and its use as a shed for housing cattle, erection of a slatted extension to existing cattle sheds for feeding cattle, installation of a second slatted tank, installation of effluent holding tank associated with existing dung stead and all associated site works at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17789

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  for retention of existing dwelling, associated site works and site layout which varies from the originally approved development granted under planning ref.no.071341

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17258

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance to public road, new bore hole well, provision of a new treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17267

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 Desart Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• KK022-020 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. A public road runs NNW-SSE along the E side of the enclosure and a field boundary, running NE-SW, possibly cuts across the edge of the NW quadrant. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 389), 'Irish speakers still call Desart by its old name, which they pronounce Lischlooineen, or Lislooineen, that is Lios-Chluainín, the Fort of the Little Cluain or Meadow. The Lios is about a quarter of a mile south of Desart Court. It is circular in shape and about 100 yds. in diameter; and, though partially dismantled, its enclosing earthen rampart can be easily traced. The people now call it a Rath'. The S portion (diam. c. 85m) is indicated on the 1899-1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map. Only the S arc (dims. chord c. 73m; sagitta c. 23m) is visible on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 24 May 2021). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 May 2021

• KK022-021001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, c. 400m E of the Desart Court house which has since been demolished. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 389), ‘The site of a church is pointed out about a quarter of a mile east of Desart Court, in the portion of the demesne known as the “Church field.” It occupies the point of a piece of rising ground. The church itself, with the churchyard, has been destroyed, but the circular earthen ring that enclosed both may be still traced. The name of this church, as appears from the St. Leger documents quoted above, was Kilfeachin or Kilfechine, that is Cill Feichín, or the Church of St. Feichin. It was also called Tamplefeighane or Teampull-Feichín, for in the Fiants of Queen Elizabeth, there is entered a “lease, under queen’s letter, 16 April, 1574, to Jasper Horsey, Esq., of the tithes of corn and hay, altarages, and other profits of the parish churches of Tullanghanbrooke, Lesloynyne alias Tamplefeighane, and Ballykyve, Co. Kilkenny. To hold for 40 years, from the termination of a lease by the abbot of St. Thomas the Martyr, Dublin, in 1537, to Nich. Stevens, chaplain, Walter Archer, of Kilkenny, gent., Marion Courcey, his wife, and Nicholl Kranesbrughe, of Kilkenny, widower, Rent £5 6s. 8d.”’. A circular enclosure (KK022-021003-) within an outer enclosure is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL076, 15 July 1968) but there is no visible trace of the church (KK022-021001-), graveyard (KK022-021002-) or holy well (KK022-021004-) mentioned by Carrigan (ibid. 389-90). The form of the enclosure suggests that this was an early medieval monastic church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 May 2021

• KK022-021002 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, c. 400m E of the Desart Court house which has since been demolished. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 389), ‘The site of a church is pointed out about a quarter of a mile east of Desart Court, in the portion of the demesne known as the “Church field.” It occupies the point of a piece of rising ground. The church itself, with the churchyard, has been destroyed, but the circular earthen ring that enclosed both may be still traced. The name of this church, as appears from the St. Leger documents quoted above, was Kilfeachin or Kilfechine, that is Cill Feichín, or the Church of St. Feichin. It was also called Tamplefeighane or Teampull-Feichín, for in the Fiants of Queen Elizabeth, there is entered a “lease, under queen’s letter, 16 April, 1574, to Jasper Horsey, Esq., of the tithes of corn and hay, altarages, and other profits of the parish churches of Tullanghanbrooke, Lesloynyne alias Tamplefeighane, and Ballykyve, Co. Kilkenny. To hold for 40 years, from the termination of a lease by the abbot of St. Thomas the Martyr, Dublin, in 1537, to Nich. Stevens, chaplain, Walter Archer, of Kilkenny, gent., Marion Courcey, his wife, and Nicholl Kranesbrughe, of Kilkenny, widower, Rent £5 6s. 8d.”’. Presumably there was a graveyard associated with this church within the ecclesiastical enclosure (KK022-021003-). The ecclesiastical enclosure was identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL076, 15 July 1968) but there is no visible trace of the church (KK022-021001-), graveyard (KK022-021002-) or holy well (KK022-021004-) mentioned by Carrigan (ibid. 389-90). The form of the enclosure suggests that this was an early medieval monastic church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 May 2021

• KK022-021003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, c. 400m E of the Desart Court house which has since been demolished. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 389), ‘The site of a church is pointed out about a quarter of a mile east of Desart Court, in the portion of the demesne known as the “Church field.” It occupies the point of a piece of rising ground. The church itself, with the churchyard, has been destroyed, but the circular earthen ring that enclosed both may be still traced. The name of this church, as appears from the St. Leger documents quoted above, was Kilfeachin or Kilfechine, that is Cill Feichín, or the Church of St. Feichin. It was also called Tamplefeighane or Teampull-Feichín, for in the Fiants of Queen Elizabeth, there is entered a “lease, under queen’s letter, 16 April, 1574, to Jasper Horsey, Esq., of the tithes of corn and hay, altarages, and other profits of the parish churches of Tullanghanbrooke, Lesloynyne alias Tamplefeighane, and Ballykyve, Co. Kilkenny. To hold for 40 years, from the termination of a lease by the abbot of St. Thomas the Martyr, Dublin, in 1537, to Nich. Stevens, chaplain, Walter Archer, of Kilkenny, gent., Marion Courcey, his wife, and Nicholl Kranesbrughe, of Kilkenny, widower, Rent £5 6s. 8d.”’. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) within an outer enclosure (diam. c. 80m) is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL076, 15 July 1968). Though levelled, the outline of this enclosure is also visible as undulations on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 24 May 2021). There is no visible trace of the church (KK022-021001-), graveyard (KK022-021002-) or holy well (KK022-021004-) mentioned by Carrigan (ibid. 389-90). The form of the enclosure suggests that this was an early medieval monastic church. See attached: KK022-021003-_01 CUCAP (AVL076, 15 July 1968) KK022-021003-_02 Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 24 May 2021 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 May 2021

• KK022-021004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 389-90) St. Feichin’s holy well, ‘was formerly beside his church of Cill-Feichin [KK022-021001-], but it removed thence, owing to some act of profanation, and broke out again about a half a mile to the south-west in the townland of Riesk, where it is now generally known as “Desart Well.”’. The precise location of the original position of this well, and the subsequent position (KK022-048----), are unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 May 2021

Architectural heritage

• Desart Court, walled garden, 1730–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1839, on a polygonal plan with part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in grounds originally shared with Desart Court.

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 Desart Demesne, 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 Desart Demesne.

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

Name

Desart Demesne · Lios Loinín

Area

2,010,054 m² (201.01 ha, 496.7 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghanbrogue, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Tullaghanbrogue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

546 people lived in 178 households in the Tullaghanbrogue electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghenderry, Coontraght, Deerpark, Greatwood, Kyleandangan, Monavaddra, Riesk, Ryelanes

Placenames

Desart Demesne 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.