Fountain

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fountain, from 275 m² to 152,206 m² (15.22 ha, 37.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Fountain 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.

• 3 Apr 2024Conditional

  construction of a new single storey dwelling, garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460159

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 Fountain.

Recorded monuments

• WA029-036 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, the name means the 'trench of the calf'. Situated in pasture in the valley of the Bride River. It is described by Power (1905, 121-2; 1952, 28) as a depression which was the traditional S terminus of the 'Rian bó Phadraig' (WA012-007----/WA011-010----/WA020-028----) where a calf thief was killed. It is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August 2011

• WA029-038001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope, at the headwaters of a small SW-NE stream that runs NE to the NW-SE River Bride, c. 500m distant. According to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 72) the present C of I church within a small D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) was built on the site of the church of Kilfentony, of which there is no other record, other than Power (1906a, 163) who locates it c. 350m to the N (WA029-037----). The present church was built c. 1831 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 219), but there are no visible remains of an antiquity. The enclosure is defined by a stone-clad earthen bank, except SE-SW where a scarp down to the interior separates it from a rectangular graveyard (WA029-038002-) (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a stone-clad earthen bank, but there is no evidence of burial close to the church. Lewis, S. (1837) A topographical dictionary of Ireland. 2 vols. Lewis and Co. London. O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Power, Rev. P. (1906a) The place-names of the Decies, WAJ 9, 12-39, 80-106, 154-70, 228-65. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 14 November 2011

• WA029-038002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope, at the headwaters of a small SW-NE stream that runs NE to the NW-SE River Bride, c. 500m distant. According to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 72) the present C of I church within a small D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) was built on the site of the church of Kilfentony (WA029-038001-), of which there is no other record. The enclosure is defined by a stone-clad earthen bank, except SE-SW where a scarp down to the interior separates it from a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a stone-clad earthen bank, but there is no evidence of burial close to the church. O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 14 November 2011

• WA029-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the top of a N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 28m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.5m at W to 1.6m at E) with external stone-facing. Slight traces of an outer fosse survive at NW, and the entrance at ESE. It is planted with deciduous trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Church (Kilwatermoy), church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height rubble stone single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1831, with single-bay single-storey vestry to south-east, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. Pitched slate roof (hipped to vestry) with clay ridge tiles (red clay ridge tiles to vestry), cut-stone coping to gables having cut-stone flue to east, and cast-iron rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, cut-limestone quoins to corners, and cut-limestone dressings to tower including stringcourses to each stage, chamfered corners to second and to top (bell) stage, and battlemented parapet on cut-stone stringcourse with gabled angled panelled corner pinnacles having elongated finials. Lancet window openings to nave with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and hood mouldings over. 8/6 timber sash windows. Pointed-arch window opening to east with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and mullions and tracery forming paired lancet arrangement. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Pointed-arch window opening to vestry with cut-limestone block-and-start surround, and 6/3 timber sash window having wrought iron bars. Pointed-arch door opening to vestry with cut-limestone block-and-start surround and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Lancet window openings to second stage to tower with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds and fixed-pane timber fittings. Paired lancet window openings to top (bell) stage with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, and louvered timber fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with five hewn-stone steps, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site having group of cut-stone grave markers, c.1835 – c.1935, and random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site with pair of cut-stone piers having 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 Fountain, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1626 (ZIP).

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 Fountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Fountain · Gleann gCeannabháin

Area

1,153,040 m² (115.3 ha, 284.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilwatermoy, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Kilwatermoy East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

130 people lived in 52 households in the Kilwatermoy East electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymuddy, Corrannaskeha, Corrannaskeha North, Killanthony, Sapperton North, Sapperton South, Snugborough

Placenames

Fountain 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.