Kilgask
Kilgask is a townland in the civil parish of Lorrha, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Coill Ghaisce.
- Area
- 242.2 ha
- 598 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 15,527 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgask, from 1,421 m² to 1,143,940 m² (114.39 ha, 282.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilgask 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Dec 2022Conditional
the construction of a dormer dwelling, detatched domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, new site entrance, demolition of an existing outbuilding and all associated external site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22696
19 Dec 2018Conditional
extension to existing dwelling house along with ancillary site works. This development forms part of a recorded protected structure S199 Kilcarren House & Lodge
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601498
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Kilcarren-Firville Bog SAC 000647
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilcarren-Firville Bog 000647
Recorded monuments
- TN004-034 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a low rise of ground with a nearby bog to the S. An aerial photograph taken in April 1973 (GSIAP, M 448/447) shows the faint outline of a circular enclosure. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilgask.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilgask, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilgask.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilgask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Kilgask · Coill Ghaisce
- Area
- 2,421,707 m² (242.17 ha, 598.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lorrha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Lorrha East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 301 people lived in 117 households in the Lorrha East electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeville, Ballyhaugh, Dary, Derrybreen, Kilcarren, Lisduff, Lissagadda
- Placenames
- Kilgask 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.