Auburn

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Auburn, from 245 m² to 328,327 m² (32.83 ha, 81.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Auburn 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.

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  a new dwelling, new domestic garage, new road entrance, new septic tank and percolation area, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460389

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  Construction of a new dwelling and detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, permission to close existing gate entrance (Protected Structure 022-033) as contained in the Westmeath County Development Plan and permission to open a new road entrance, and all associated site ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207005

• 18 Dec 2019N/a

  Construction of a new dwelling and detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new road entrance and all associated site ancillary works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 197256

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 Auburn.

Recorded monuments

• WM022-013 Crannog
  Description

  Reputed to be located on the western shore of Lough Makeegan/Mareegan, in level, marshy bog. Potential monument described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. The western shore of the lough is very marshy for roughly 30 metres down to the shoreline and beyond this is an area of marshy peat bog for up to 100 meters before the shore. This has been heavily diminished by turf-cutting. This area has occasional small patches of scrub but nothing that resembles the solid ground of a Crannóg. There is no trace of any mound, or of any modification around the shoreline that may suggest a change in the peaty material that makes up the bog. No traces of any timber elements such as bog-oak were noted. According to the NMI finds index, ‘bones’ were recovered from a crannóg at Lough Mareegan (SMR file). An irregular-shaped island (approx. diam. 60m) at the SW end of Lough Mareegan which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography may have been a crannog. A second possible crannóg (WM022-013001-) lies 70m to the E. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 16 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Auburn House, outbuilding, country house, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over raised basement house, built or rebuilt c.1805, having (shallow) central three-bay breakfront to main elevation (north). Two-storey returns to the rear (south). Now derelict and out of use. Shallow hipped natural slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods and three red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast render over rubble limestone construction with flush dressed limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and remains of timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to ground floor openings and six-over-six to first floor. Iron security bars to ground floor openings. Central round-headed doorcase with early timber rasied and fielded panelled door having moulded limestone surround with margined sidelights and a spoke fanlight over. Main entrance reached up flight of cut stone steps with remains of wrought-iron railings to either side. Set back from road on an elevated site in extensive mature grounds to the north of Glassan. Rubble limestone estate wall to road frontage (west) and a single-storey gate lodge (15402228) and main entrance gates to the north. Complex of single-and-two storey rubble limestone outbuildings arranged around a sunken courtyard to the rear (south), now mostly converted for use as a private dwelling, c.2000.

• Auburn House, gate lodge, 1780–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge formerly serving Auburn House (15402227), built c.1805, now derelict and out of use. Hipped natural slate roof having overhanging eaves, a central rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Constructed of rubble limestone with lime render over. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and timber casement windows with margin glazing. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to south elevation. Square-headed door opening with timber sheeted door. Located adjacent to attendant former main entrance gates to Auburn House, comprising cast-iron Doric gate posts supporting cast-iron gates, flanked to either side (east and west) by sections of cast-iron railings and terminated by ashlar limestone piers on octagonal plan. Set back from road, in overgrown grounds, to the north of Auburn House (15402227) and to the northwest of Glassan.

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).

• Auburn, Dublin Road5 sales

Name

Auburn · Achadh na Gréine

Area

608,981 m² (60.9 ha, 150.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkenny West, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Auburn, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Creevenamanagh, Kilfaughny, Kilkenny West, Lackan, Lissoy, Toberclare

Placenames

Auburn on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.