Powerstown East

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Powerstown East, from 110 m² to 179,999 m² (18 ha, 44.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Powerstown East 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.

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  (a) demolition of non-original single storey extension to rear, (b) replacement with the construction of a single storey orangerie style conservatory to the rear, (c) internal alterations to layouts at ground and first floor levels involving new openings in existing walls and new walls, (d) lowering of a section of the ground floor and installation of a domestic lift for universal access, (e) alterations to external opes to rear and sides and (f) all associated works required

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460456

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  for the construction of two (no 2) silage pits with concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 23149

• 25 Mar 2022Conditional

  for development, to include the following: 1. To construct a two-storey dwelling with detached single storey garage. 2. the provision of a new treatment plant & percolation area, a new borehole well. 3. a new vehicular site entrance. 4. all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22198

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  of (i) Storage Shed (ii) Two loose sheds (iii) Slatted feeding area (iv) hardcore bale storage area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21228

• 24 Sept 2020Conditional

  for indefinite retention of alterations to existing dwelling as constructed on foot of previously granted permission 07/124. Alterations to include conversion of attached garage, alterations to elevations, alterations to accommodation layout, plus all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20631

• 12 Feb 2019Conditional

  is being sought for the construction of a milking parlour with associated dairy, underground dairy washings tank, plant room and cow handling facilities, a cow cubicle house with ancillary slatted underground slurry storage tank, concrete apron and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1966

• 20 Jun 2018Conditional

  for development at existing quarry site. The development consists of: (i) retention and continuance of extraction and quarrying operations on an area of 1.045 hectares; (ii) extension of extraction and quarrying operations on an area of 1.128 hectares; (iii) continuance of use of existing access for quarrying purposes; (iv) continuance of use of 2.869 hectares of existing authorized extracted area for internal site access and stockpiling of quarry products; (v) retention and continuance of use of small structure (87m2) for preparation of building stone; (vi) continuance of use of existing authorized site infrastructure, including maintenance shed (340m2), toilet facilities (13.5m2), wheelwash (64.5m2) and bunded fuel tank (20m2).

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18411

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 Powerstown East.

Recorded monuments

• KK025-006 Moated site
  Description

  On the E bank of the Powerstown River which is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as flowing N-S immediately W of the enclosure. The enclosure is indicated on the 1st ed. map as a D-shaped enclosure, the N side possibly truncated by a field boundary which runs E-W along this straight side. It is not indicated on the 1900 revision and is visible on satellite imagery as a levelled enclosure (int. diam. c. 45m; overall diam. c. 65m), though the outline of the outer fosse is clearly visible. It is described in the OS Letters (1839) (O'Flanagan 1930, 16 (6)) as 'the Moat of Powerstown' which suggests that it had a water-filled fosse, no doubt fed from the adjacent river. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 February 2022

• KK025-007001 Church
  Description

  In pasture. A motte (KK025-008----) is located c. 90m to the SSW. Described by Robertson (1872-3, 256-7) as an 'ancient' church with 'old masonry is concealed by many a coat of dashing; however, in one or two places it does make its appearance. Although the mullions and jambs of door and windows are all gone, the thick walls speak for themselves'. Robertson (ibid.) also mentions a medieval font (KK025-007002-) within the interior. Cockerham (2009, 362) lists a late 17th-century memorial, possibly a headstone (KK025-007004-) from the church or graveyard (KK025-007003-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2022

• KK025-007002 Font
  Description

  Describing the 'ancient' church of Powerstown, Robertson (1872-3, 256-7), mentions that, 'on entering the Church, we find the basin of a splendid early English font...The font is fluted and closely resembles those at St. Canice's Cathedral and St. Mary's Church'. This font was moved to St George’s Church, Goresbridge, previously known as St Mary’s Church, which lies 3.1km to the NNE (see KK021-055----) (Grattan-Bellew 1979, 45). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK025-007003 Graveyard
  Description

  A roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. 45m N-S; c. 32m E-W at N widening to c. 43m at S) enclosed by a stone wall. The church (KK025-007001-) is aligned E-W within the S portion of the graveyard. Cockerham (2009, 363) mentions at late 17th memorial, possibly a headstone (KK025-007004-) within the precincts of the church and graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2022

• KK025-007004 Headstone
  Description

  In Powerstown church (KK025-007001-) or graveyard (KK025-007003-). Cockerham (2009, 362) lists a late 17th-century memorial, possibly a headstone (KK025-007004-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KK025-008 Castle - motte
  Description

  On the brow of a N-facing slope with good views from SE-W-NE. A small bowl-shaped flat-topped mound (diam. at top 16.5m; basal diam. c. 30m; H 3.6-4m) defined by a scarp and covered in dense overgrowth to NW and SSW. It is composed of earth and gravel. There is no evidence of a fosse around the base. The ruined church (KK025-007001-) and graveyard (KK025-007003-) is located c. 90m to the NNE. See attached: KK025-008----_01 General view from S (photo taken 23 November 1994) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2022

• KK025-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated as a possible sand pit (dims. c. 20m N-S; c. 26m E-W) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map with a trackway running N from the pit before turning W and running to a large quarry where a row of adjoining limekilns is indicated. On the 1900 revision the feature is indicated as a small oval enclosure (dims. c. 20m N-S; c. 30m E-W) of similar size, defined by a bank. The enclosure is depicted at the junction of four fields. On satellite imagery (Google Earth, imagery date 25 April 2021) the enclosure, which appears to be levelled, is bounded on the S and W side by the quarry (Kilcarrig Quarries - Milford), which has been vastly extended to the S and somewhat to the W from that indicated on the 1900 revision. The S and W bank of the enclosure may be incorporated in the field boundaries separating the enclosure from the quarry. A corn-drying kiln (KK025-049----) was uncovered during archaeological excavations c. 30m to the S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 February 2022

• KK025-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified as the cropmark of a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), defined by a fosse, on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH013, 16 July 1971). The N portion of the enclosure is transected by a field boundary running E-W and the cropmark only appears S of this boundary. Much of the central area of the S portion of the enclosure is occupied by a dark soil stain which is indicative of a filled-in depression. This depression is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a small roughly circular sand pit (diam. c. 0.15m). A nearby quarry, Kilcarrig Quarry, has gradually extended southward and between 2005 and 2009 it extended S of the enclosure and by 2017 had extended E of the enclosure, leaving the S portion of the enclosure on a peninsula jutting out into the quarry. See attached: KK025-012----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH013, 16 July 1971) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 February 2022

• KK025-013 Moated site
  Description

  Identified as the cropmark of a roughly square enclosure (overall dims. c. 55m E-W), defined by two fosses, visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL086, 15 July 1968; BGH012, 16 July 1971). On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1900 revision the enclosure is not indicated, suggesting it had been levelled by 1839, however, a field boundary is indicated running NE-SW along its E side, kinking out to respect the monument. The aerial photographs show as bivallate enclosure with square sides and rounded corners, which suggests that this is a moated site. See attached: KK025-013----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVL086, 15 July 1968 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 February 2022

• KK025-049 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  Uncovered during archaeological excavations (04E0392; 04E1263) in 2004 in advance of an extension to Kilcarrig Quarry (McLoughlin 2004). Described by McLoughlin (2007, 226) as a corn-drying kiln, which consisted of a stone-lined regular feature (L 2.05m; max. Wth 1.1m; D 1.29m) with a shallow, narrow irregular cut extending eastwards and a narrow, shallow stone-lined flue-like feature joining the two other elements. The upper fills of the kiln contained extensive evidence for burning, including ash, charcoal and burnt clay (ibid. 227). The main fill of the feature (comprising c. 0.6m of the total depth) comprised a mottled silty clay and contained many charcoal pieces (ibid.). The lower, earliest, fill of the feature contained extensive evidence for burning, with charcoal and burnt clay represented, as well as a plank and two pieces of slag, which were provisionally interpreted as iron slag (ibid.). Two possible post-holes were identified in the eastern portion of the feature (ibid.). The entire feature contained charcoal and animal bone (ibid.). An enclosure (KK025-011----) is located c. 30m to the N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 February 2022

Architectural heritage

• Powerstown Church, church/chapel, 1765–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay single-storey single-cell Church of Ireland church, adapted 1766, on a rectangular plan. Dismantled, 1871. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-granite eaves. Roughcast rubble stone battered walls with concealed rough cut granite flush quoins to corners. Destroyed window openings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in overgrown grounds with piers to perimeter having rounded capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 Powerstown East, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Powerstown East · Baile an Phaoraigh Thoir

Area

1,620,943 m² (162.09 ha, 400.54 acres)

Civil parish

Powerstown, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Powerstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

524 people lived in 180 households in the Powerstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycabus, Barrowmount, Boherkyle, Gorteen, Grange Lower, Mountloftus

Placenames

Powerstown East 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.