Farmley

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farmley, from 115 m² to 668,355 m² (66.84 ha, 165.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Farmley 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Farmley in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Farmley.

Recorded monuments

• KK023-071001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a wide low flat-topped eminence with views in all directions, with the medieval church (KK023-072001-) and graveyard (KK023-072002-) across the modern road immediately to the S. A castle of a branch of the Fitzgerald family, styled Barons of Burnchurch in the former county palatinate of Kilkenny. In 1654 the last Baron of Burnchurch, Richard Fitzgerald, was transplanted to Connaught and his possessions granted to Colonel William Warden (Commins 1906, 266). It is claimed that Oliver Cromwell probably stayed in the tower house following the siege of Kilkenny, in March 1650, when his army camped at Burnchurch (ibid.). Austin Cooper visited the castle in the 1780s and recorded that it seemed ‘as if but lately inhabited’ and that there was a deep well within the precincts (Price 1942, 30). The tower house was inhabited until the early 19th century, the last resident being the Reverend William Swift who died in 1817 (ibid.). A late 15th/early 16th-century rectangular four-storey tower house (National Monument No. 321) protected by a bawn (KK023-071003-), of which only a circular angle tower survives above ground 20m to the N. An early 19th-century print shows the remains of a bawn wall running between the two towers (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, opposite 378). The tower house (dims. 10.9m N-s; 9.5m E-W externally at base) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with well-cut quoins and has a base-batter (H 2.5m; Wth 0.35m). The garderobe chute exits at the S end of the W wall 1.05m above external ground level. The tower house was entered at ground level towards the W end of the N wall, through a pointed head with an external rebate and iron fittings for a yett. The entrance lobby has a murder-hole overhead and a doorway to the left leads to a second lobby. From this a doorway gives access to the ground floor and a straight stair rises eastwards in the thickness of the wall. The ground floor has loops to E and W and a high-level small secondary rectangular window to S. The first floor is entered at the NE corner and the lobby on the stairs has a murder-hole over it. Its floor was laid on joists set into the E and W walls. The oak joist against the S wall survives. There are narrow windows in embrasures to E, S and W and a door leading to a small chamber in the N wall. Another doorway in the NW corner gave access to another small chamber, now filled with masonry, with corner loop and murder-hole over entrance lobby. The stair continues up the E wall with an entrance to the second floor being soon after the corner. It had a timber floor held on corbels and a window to W and a large secondary three-light window to W. A door in S wall gave access to a garderobe and there is an original fireplace, with joggled voussoirs held on corbels, at N end of W wall. A doorway in the N wall gave access to a long narrow chamber with angle loop to NE. A stair rises from a window embrasure at the S end of the E wall and turns the corner to the S wall to give access to the third floor, an intersol beneath the vault, with no windows. The main stair continues up the E wall to the SE angle to give access to the fourth floor, the main room of the tower house above the vault. This room has two-light windows to S and E and single-light windows to N and W. At the N end of the W wall there is a large fireplace with joggled voussoirs. Entered westwards off the S embrasure is a garderobe. Beneath the passage to the garderobe is a secret chamber. Towards the S end of the E wall a stair leads down to a small intramural chamber at third-floor level. At the NE angle a spiral stair leads up to the parapets. At its start a stair leads down to another intramural chamber at third-floor level in the N wall, with windows to N and W. The spiral stairs leads to a doorway leading S on the E wall-walk. At roof level the N and S walls were continued upwards to form mural chambers, between which the roof ran. That to the S has a passage within it giving access between the E and W wall-walks and a doorway leading N into a gallery above this end of the main room. That to the N has a long narrow chamber entered off the spiral stairs. The W wall-walk is partly blocked by a cylindrical chimney. The wall-walks above the mural chambers, with parapets all around, are accessed by projecting steps running above, and parallel with, the E roofline. The external parapets have stepped crenellations and a series of rectangular holes below the level of the base of the crenels. These may be either for scaffolding or for a defensive timber hoard. The roof-line of a later attached two-storey building can be seen in the exterior of the N wall of the tower house. A doorway was broken through the N wall of the tower house at first-floor level to give access to the upper storey of this house, the timber floor of which partly rested on an inserted corbel projecting from the tower house. (National Monument no. 321) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 17 August 2016

• KK023-071003 Bawn
  Description

  A castle of a branch of the Fitzgerald family, styled Barons of Burnchurch in the former county palatinate of Kilkenny. In 1654 the last Baron of Burnchurch, Richard Fitzgerald, was transplanted to Connaught and his possessions granted to Colonel William Warden (Commins 1906, 266). The rectangular tower house (KK023-071001-) was protected by a bawn, only a circular tower of which survives, 20m N of the tower house. The tower appears to have formed the NW angle of the bawn. A sketch by Robertson (Burtchaell 1893, facing 179) shows the remains of a wall connecting the S face of the circular tower with the N face of the tower house. The four-story angle tower (int. diam. c. 2.9m; wall T 1.3m) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and has remnants of the N (T 1.25m) and W (T 1.36m) walls of the bawn. It is entered through a round-headed doorway facing SE. A stair ascends from S to first floor. The stair to the upper levels is across the missing wooden floor and hence now inaccessible. A window facing W at first-floor level was later converted to a fireplace with liberal use of brick. There is a garderobe at second-floor level and a fireplace on the third floor. The floors were held by slight offsets. The parapet survives with long merlons and few crenels. (National Monument no. 321) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 17 August 2016

• KK023-170 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage but the location had been under woodland in the 19th and 20th-century. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m N-S; c. 37m E-W), defined by a fosse, identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 17 June 2017) by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached photograph: KK023-170----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 January 2020

Architectural heritage

• Farmley, country house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey double-pile country house, c.1850, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1750, on site with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, and three-bay two-storey return to north. Part refenestrated. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roofs (hipped and pitched to return) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, cut-stone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone corbels (on rendered eaves to return). Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls to main block with rendered quoined piers to corners, rendered frieze to porch having carved cut-limestone cornice over supporting cut-limestone blocking course to parapet (rising to centre), and unpainted rendered walls to return (possibly replacement). Square-headed window openings (in camber-headed recesses to ground floor return having one in tripartite arrangement to first floor) with cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surrounds to ground floor having friezes supporting entablatures, and replacement timber casement windows to main block retaining six-over-six timber sash windows to return having two-over-two sidelights to tripartite opening. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975, having sidelights on panelled risers, and overlight. Square-headed door opening to house with glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile servants' quarters, c.1750, to east. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows.

• Farmley, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1850, comprising pair of unpainted roughcast piers with cut-limestone stringcourses supporting cut-limestone capping, wrought iron double gates having cast-iron finials, sections of wrought iron flanking railings having cast-iron finials, unpainted roughcast outer piers with cut-limestone stringcourses supporting cut-limestone capping, and unpainted roughcast boundary wall having cut-limestone coping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Farmley.

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 Farmley, 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

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

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

Name

Farmley · Farmley

Area

1,213,836 m² (121.38 ha, 299.95 acres)

Civil parish

Burnchurch, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Burnchurch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 190 households in the Burnchurch electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymack (Desart), Ballymack (Flood), Burnchurch, Coalsfarm, Paddock, Sunhill

Placenames

Farmley 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.