Seixeslough

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seixeslough, from 2,363 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres) to 6,116 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.

• G5Amenity / Green links/Biodiversity conservation/ Open Space/Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2General Business (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Existing Residential (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021 (Variation 8B), Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Sept 2026N/a

  to demolish the existing curtain wall entrance structure to the main function rooms located at the side of Newpark Hotel, for the construction of a new single storey Orangery structure (circa 306M2) incorporating new entrance to the side and rear of the existing function rooms of Newpark Hotel together with all associated site works on our lands located at Newpark Lower, Castlecomer Road Kilkenny R95P2N0. Newpark Gate Lodge, a protected structure Ref No B227 lies within the curtilage of the proposed development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660615

• 14 Sept 2026N/a

  to demolish the existing curtain wall entrance structure to the main function rooms located at the side of Newpark Hotel, for the construction of a new single storey Orangery structure (circa 306M2) incorporating new entrance to the side and rear of the existing function rooms of Newpark Hotel together with all associated site works on our lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660588

• 22 May 2026N/a

  to demolish a disused timber pre-fabricated single storey structure with associated site works to the rear of Newpark Gate Lodge, a protected structure RPS Ref No B227 on lands located

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660306

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a full-size all-weather rugby astro pitch and training area with floodlighting, perimeter fencing and spectator stand with all associated sites works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660141

• 8 Jul 2024Conditional

  for: 1. Retention Permission for: (a) change of use of open space within the hotel grounds to a wildlife farm and leisure park and associated works, open to hotel guests and visiting members of the public; (b) Open sided shed / structure covering an adventure playground (788.5M2); (c) wooden building incorporating WC facilities (15.10M2), (d) sweet shop (22.0M2), (e) various open sided covered structures, and (f) all other associated site works and; 2. Permission for additional car parking and reconfiguration of existing car parking areas with associated drainage at the Newpark Hotel

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460321

• 7 Jul 2023N/a

  for (a) Open sided shed / structure covering an adventure playground (788.5M2) (b) wooden building incorporating WC facilities (15.10M2) and sweet shop (22.0M2) with associated site works all located to the rear of Newpark Hotel

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360296

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the demolition of existing two no. existing single storey prefabricated classrooms & undertake the construction of a single storey dressing room building (including roof mounted photovoltaic panels) with all associated ancillary accommodation, connection to existing watermains, public foul and private stormwater treatment, with all associated ancillary works and associated site works. All within the attendant Grounds of Newtown House, A Protected Structure (RPS No B215)

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21871

• 16 Apr 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey 2 classroom building with ancillary accommodation, connection to existing watermains, public foul and private stormwater treatment with all associated ancillary works and associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18237

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Newpark Marsh 000845

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Seixeslough.

Architectural heritage

• Celbridge House, house, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey over basement Classical-style house, c.1875, originally detached on a symmetrical plan with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, and three-bay two-storey side elevations. Converted to use as school, 1973. Hipped slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with carved cut-limestone cornice supporting blocking course to parapet having cut-limestone coping, and rendered band to porch supporting carved cut-limestone cornice having cut-limestone blocking course over with inscribed central panel. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to ground floor having inscribed mullions) with cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surrounds to front (south) elevation having entablatures over to tripartite openings on consoles, and one-over-one timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights to tripartite openings. Square-headed door opening to porch with four cut-limestone steps, carved cut-limestone surround, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted rendered plinth to basement having cut-limestone coping supporting wrought iron railings, gravel forecourt, and remains of landscaped grounds to site including sunken garden having flight of cut-limestone steps.(ii) Gateway, c.1875, to west comprising pair of cut-granite cylindrical piers with cut-granite conical capping, iron double gates, painted rendered curved flanking walls having cut-stone coping supporting wrought iron railings, and cut-granite panelled terminating piers having cut-granite capping.

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 Seixeslough, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Seixeslough · Loch an tSaghasaigh

Area

238,398 m² (23.84 ha, 58.91 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

Glendine, Neworchard, Newpark Lower, Newtown

Placenames

Seixeslough 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.