Kildrinagh

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildrinagh, from 58 m² to 447,893 m² (44.79 ha, 110.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kildrinagh 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.

• 4 Aug 2026Conditional

  of an extension to the rear of my dwelling with all associated siteworks

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660491

• 9 Jul 2024Conditional

  for construction of single storey dwelling, repurposing of existing cottage to garage/store for domestic use, new entrance, foul effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460324

• 3 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct Extension to cubicle shed with slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360077

• 18 Oct 2022Conditional

  for construction of single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance, foul effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works and demolition of existing habitable dwelling and sheds

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22681

• 2 Sept 2022Refused

  to construct a new entrance, a dormer style dwelling, a garage and a waste water treatment system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22580

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a new entrance, a single storey dwelling, a garage and a waste water treatment system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21485

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  to build a dwelling, domestic garage cum fuel store, construct entrance, bore well, install waste water sewerage treatment system including associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2089

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  to demolish existing house and construct a replacement two-storey farmhouse in the same location, using existing septic tank and up grading percolation area and all necessary and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18479

• 21 May 2018Conditional

  to construct slatted cubicle and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18329

• 3 Nov 2017Conditional

  to construct Slatted Cubicle shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17725

• 20 Sept 2017Conditional

  single storey extension to the side of existing house to provide a 'Family Flat' consisting of 1no. bedroom with ensuite bathroom and a kitchen-dining room, with external side entrance door to the rear and an internal door connecting to the existing house through alterations to existing walk in wardrobe and change of use of existing ground floor bedroom to a study room

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17620

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 Kildrinagh.

Recorded monuments

• KK012-059001 Church
  Description

  On top of a steep slope on the S-SE side of a small valley, surrounded by tillage and grassland. On the N side of a roughly lozenge-shaped graveyard (KK012-059002-). There are good views in all directions, especially along and across though valley, though somewhat limited to the S. According to Healy (1874-9, 44) this church is dedicated to St. Drenan whose feast day is the 12th of December. A rectangular undivided church (int. dims. 12.6m E-W; 7m N-S) of roughly coursed rubble, the mortar has a high pebble content (wall T 0.68m). The E end of the church is best preserved with side walls (H 3m) and E gable surviving. The E window and a window at the E end of the S wall survive but are obscured by ivy. The W end is poorly preserved, the W end of the N wall (L 4.8m) is missing as an area at the W end of the S wall where the doorway was located. The W gable largely survives to only a metre high. According to the OS Letters (1839), when the church was, 'entire excepting fifteen feet [4.5m] of the northern side wall near the western gable', the W gable had a broken belfry (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 172 (56)). The E gable window is described as being round-headed, 'eight feet [2.4m] high and five feet eight inches [1.73m] wide on the inside, three feet six inches [1m] high and six and a half (?) inches [0.16m] in breadth outside, built up with cut stone' (ibid.). This E gable window survives, as does a window at the E end of the S wall. There is a 13th/early 14th-century graveslab (KK012-059003-) associated with this church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019

• KK012-059002 Graveyard
  Description

  On top of a steep slope on the S-SE side of a small valley, surrounded by tillage and grassland. There are good views in all directions, especially along and across though valley, though somewhat limited to the S. According to Healy (1874-9, 44) the church is dedicated to St. Drenan whose feast day is the 12th of December. The medieval church (KK012-059001-) is located on the N side of a roughly lozenge-shaped walled graveyard (dims. c. 35m NE-SW; c. 31m NW-SE). The graveyard (dims. c. 87m NE-SW; c. 48m NW-SE) is defined by a dashed line on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map which indicates it was not enclosed at this time. The church was roughly centrally placed within this unenclosed graveyard. The graveyard was enclosed by 1900 were it is depicted on the revised OS 6-inch map. The N wall of the graveyard kinks outward at the NW angle to accommodate a mausoleum to the St. George family of Woodsgift which bears the date 1825 (OPW Correspondance 1942). This mausoleum appears to be the structure depicted on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map NW of the church. There is a 13th/early 14th-century graveslab (KK012-059003-) associated with the church and graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019

• KK012-059003 Graveslab
  Description

  On top of a steep slope on the S-SE side of a small valley, surrounded by tillage and grassland. Associated with a medieval church (KK012-059001-) and graveyard (KK012-059002-). According to Healy (1874-9, 44-5), in May 1873, 'we discovered a coffin-shaped cross-slab, 3 feet 6 inches long, by 1 foot 3 inches wide at top, and 5 inches wide at bottom. A chamfer run around the edge'. He gives the inscription as, '[...] es la[...] Fis honter. .. Git ici Dieu de su almer eit merci'. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 372) further describes it as having, 'a raised floriated cross down the centre', with an, 'incised Norman-French inscription in Lombardic lettering on the sides: "ALIS; LAFILEAV FIS; HONIRE GIT ICI DE KI ALME FEVE EIT MERCI." i.e. Alis (Alexander?) Lafileau Fitz Honier lies here, on whose soul may God have mery. The FEVE in the second lin, the writer takes to be a sculptor's error for DIEU'. The graveslab, which formerly rested against the wall in the SW corner of the graveyard, could not be located in 1987 (OPW Correspondance 1942; ASI report, 3 November 1987). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2019

• KK012-059004 Well
  Description

  Healy (1874-9, 44) describes, 'a well by the road side, under this church which entirely overflowed a large circular space around it. In less than two hours after I had noticed it perfectly dried up. The people call it Briagoyne, and probably this was the "holy well" of St. Daranus'. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 372), 'On the road-side, under the north-east corner of the church there is a well callled "Brae-ag-ogue" (breugóg), or the deceptive, because, though oftentimes full of water, it is perfectly dry just as often'. The well, though not indicated as such, is depicted on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly semi-circular area (dims. c. 16m N-S; c. 12m E-W) extending southward from the road N of the church, on the SW side of a crossroads. On the 1900 revision a 'P' indicates that a water pump has been erected there and a pump was still at this location in 1987 (ASI report, 3 November 1987). Despite Healy's reference, there is no convincing evidence that this was a holy well. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 June 2019

• KK012-059005 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  On the S-SE side of a small valley, surrounded by tillage and grassland. According to Healy (1874-9, 45), 'It is stated by aged persons that Kildrinagh was once a small town, and really something very like house foundations lie scattered on the breast of the hill'. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 372), mentions that, 'A couple of hundred yards east of the church, beyond the road, there is a field called "The Shannahaa," in which extensive traces of foundations appear. Two fields south of the church, in "the Old Street," stood the town of Kildrinagh, said to have been destroyed ages ago by a king of Munster'. Traces of low, rectangular platforms and sunken walk-ways dividing them are located in the fields to the N and E of the medieval church (KK012-059001-), showing on aerial photograph (CUCAP AVS043, 20 July 1968). These are still well preserved in the field across the road from and E of the church but appear to have been levelled in the field immediately N of, and within which, the church and graveyard (KK012-059002-) stand (DigitalGlobe satellite imagery, 27 March 2012). See attached photograph: KK012-059005-_01 CUCAP AVS043, 20 July 1968 KK012-059005-_02 Image © 2019 DigitalGlobe Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 June 2019

• KK012-060 Enclosure
  Description

  On a steep slope N-facing slope on the S side of valley, a little above the slight terrace occupied by a medieval church (KK012-059001-) and graveyard (KK012-059002-), in reclaimed grassland. There are very good views across and along valley to the N, E and W. A sub-rectangular area (dims. 24m E-W; 23m N-S) enclosed by a low stoney bank (Wth c. 1m; int. H c. 0.15m at N, c. 0.5m at S; ext. H c. 0.5m at N, almost level at S) with rounded corners. The interior is divided in two by a low scarp (H 0.56m) running E-W. The monument is overgrown with scrub and thorn bushes. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 June 2019

• KK012-066 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Following a description of 'Brae-ag-ogue' well (KK012-059004-), Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 372) describes another well, '"Lady Well"', which, 'is about half a mile away, on the slope of Shragh hill, but the tradition of its having ever been holy, is lost'. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the subsequent 1900 revision there is a well indicated on the lower NE-facing slope of Shragh Hill, which is c. 900m or just over half a mile SE of 'Brae-ag-ogue' well. It is probable that this is the well referred to by Carrigan. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 June 2019

• KK012-103 Enclosure
  Description

  A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m), defined by a bank which is visible on satellite imagery (Digital Globe 2011-2013), identified and reported by Anne-Karoline Distel.    Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK013-131 Enclosure
  Description

  On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision there is a pronounced curving kink in the NE-SW townland boundary which forms the NE-E-SW boundary of a small roughly circular (diam. c. 46m) farmyard. The townland and farmyard boundary consist of a stone wall. The deliberate kink in the field boundary and circular form of the farmyard suggest there may be retaining the shape of an earlier circular enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 April 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kildrinagh.

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 Kildrinagh, 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 high, 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 Kildrinagh.

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

Name

Kildrinagh · Cill Draighneach

Area

1,912,986 m² (191.3 ha, 472.71 acres)

Civil parish

Tubbridbritain, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Tubbridbrittain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 101 households in the Tubbridbrittain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeagh, Coldharbour, Craddockstown, Garranconnell, Killahy, Lughinny, Parks, Rathclevin, Sragh

Placenames

Kildrinagh 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.