Kill St. Nicholas

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kill St. Nicholas, from 1,316 m² to 433,821 m² (43.38 ha, 107.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kill St. Nicholas 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.

• 18 May 2026Conditional

  for indefinite retention of changes to the Domestic Waste Water Treatment System that was previously granted permission under Planning Reference 21/427 and all associated works

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2660331

• 24 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660184

• 3 Feb 2026N/a

  construct a slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660058

• 3 Dec 2024Conditional

  for Extensions constructed to existing dwelling, storage shed and for additional vehicular entrance along with associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460730

• 14 May 2021Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house with wastewater treatment and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21427

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 Kill St. Nicholas.

Recorded monuments

• WA018-007001 Church
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. The parish church of Kill St Nicholas. The nave and chancel are described as in ruins in 1615 (Anon. 1902, 113). The spoil-covered foundations of a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 13-15m E-W; 6.8m N-S) with a possible entrance (Wth 1.4m) towards the W end of the S wall (Wth 0.75m) survive. There is no evidence of the graveyard, depicted on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 50m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) truncated by a field bank at S, or burials. A conglomerate bullaun stone (dims. 0.77m x 0.58m; H 0.33) with a single basin (diam. 0.33-0.35m; D 0.13m) is present and a sandstone quern was also found here. The site of St Nicholas' Well is c. 15m to SW, and evident as a concrete-lined hollow, now overgrown. (Power 1890-91, 481) Anon. (1902) Documents illustrating the history of Waterford: 1 - The Protestant diocese of Waterford in 1615. WAJ 8, 103-19. Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 05 October 2011

• WA018-007002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. The parish church of Kill St Nicholas (WA018-007001-) was within a graveyard, depicted on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 50m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) truncated by a field bank at S. It is no longer evident. (Power 1890-91, 481) Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 08 February 2011

• WA018-007003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. The parish church of Kill St Nicholas (WA018-007001-) and its graveyard (WA018-007002-) are associated with the site of St Nicholas' Well is c. 15m to SW, and evident as a concrete-lined hollow, now overgrown. (Power 1890-91, 481) Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 08 February 2011

• WA018-007004 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The parish church of Kill St Nicholas (WA018-007001-) and its graveyard (WA018-007002-) are associated with a conglomerate bullaun stone (dims. 0.77m x 0.58m; H 0.33) with a single basin (diam. 0.33-0.35m; D 0.13m) (Power 1890-91, 481). The present location of this bullaun is uncertain. Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Claire Breen Date of upload: 03 April 2013

• WA018-007005 Burnt mound
  Description

  Marked as a fulacht fia on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map held by NMI. It is not evident at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 08 February 2011

• WA018-080 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the crest of a N-S ridge. The cropmark of a bivallate circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) defined by a wide feature (Wth c. 5m) and outer narrower feature (ext. diam. c. 55m) is visible on digital aerial photographs (WA018-080_1 to _5) taken during 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 July 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kill St. Nicholas.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kill St. Nicholas.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kill St. Nicholas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Kill St. Nicholas · Cill San Niocláis

Area

764,093 m² (76.41 ha, 188.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kill St Nicholas, and its townlands

Barony

Gaultiere

Electoral division

Faithlegg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Faithlegg electoral division: 2,115 people in 765 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barristown, Carricksaggart, Cross, Drumrusk, Glebe, Knocknagappul, Knockroe

Placenames

Kill St. Nicholas 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.