Buildings, Features, Sites and Structures of Special Architectural, Historical, Archaeological, Artistic, Cultural, Scientific, Social or Technical Interest.

Record of Protected Structures in Kilkenny City

Kilkenny City is privileged in that it has a rich heritage of buildings of historic and architectural value. Many of the city’s older buildings particularly those dating from the medieval period and earlier are not just of local, but of national, and indeed international importance and form a very important part of the nation’s heritage. Therefore every effort should be made to preserve these buildings and structures of historic and /or architectural importance, not just for the citizens of the city but for the many visitors who come to Kilkenny.

Since the 1994 Development Plan, new legislation is now in force with regard to the protection of the architectural heritage.

Section 51 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, requires that every Development Plan shall include a Record of Protected Structures.

“51. –(1) For the purpose of protecting structures, or parts of structures, which form part of the architectural heritage and which are of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest, every development plan shall include a record of protected structures and shall include in that record every structure which is in the opinion of the planning authority, of such interest within its functional area.

(2) After consulting with the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, the Minister shall prescribe the form of a record of protected structures.

(3) Subject to any additions or deletions made to the record either under that Act or in the course of the review of the development plan under Part II, a record of protected structures shall continue to be part of that plan or any variation or replacement of the plan.”

What is a Protected Structure?

A protected structure includes all aspects of the building, externally and internally, and its curtilage, including yards, gardens, outbuildings etc.

Section 52 provides for

a) The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands shall issue guidelines to planning authorities regarding the protection of structures of special importance.
b) Preserving the character of architectural conservation areas.

Under section 57 the protection of structures extends to all works, externally and internally, which might materially affect the character of the building and will require planning permission.

An owner of a Protected Structure may make a written request to the Planning Authority for a declaration as to the type of works, which would not materially affect the character of the structure and so may not require planning permission. On receipt of such a request, the Planning Authority are obliged within a given period to issue a declaration as to the different types of work which would, or would not, require planning permission.

Section 58 requires each owner and occupier to ensure the protection of “Protected Structures” under severe penalties.

The record of Protected Structures does not differentiate between structures of national or local importance. Initially the Inventory of Protected Structures will be based on the Kilkenny Architectural Heritage Inventory Study carried out by Duchas in 1997. The Inventory identified buildings of national, regional and local importance and forms the basis for the proposed Record of Protected Structures.

The guidelines issued by the minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, will recommend that buildings of regional and upward importance should be included in the Record of Protected Structures. The protection of buildings of local importance would depend on further surveys of the Planning Authority.

The previous Kilkenny City and Environs Plan contained an extensive range of Listed Buildings. It is the policy to generally continue this listing and so afford the full range of protection to what have been considered buildings of importance. A number of additions and deletions have been made as a result of a recent survey.

APPENDIX ONE
RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES

St. Francis Abbey
City Wall

Abbey Street
The Black Abbey
Corn store building beside Blackfriar Bridge

Barrack Lane
Evans Alms House, including Gate Lodge

Barrack Street
Ormonde Almshouse

Canal Square
1 and 2 Canal Lodge

Castlecomer Road
James Stephens Barracks, including boundary walls and barracks.
10 ‘Lenehan’s’ public house

Castle Road
Saint James Asylum (Switzer’s Asylum), including walls and gate.

Church Lane
St Canice’s Cathederal, including: graveyard and grounds, boundary walls, steps, gateways, remains of wall of Bull Inn.
Round Tower
St Canice’s Library
The Bishop’s Palace, including wall
Sexton’s House and 2 Church Lane

Coach Road
The Deanery

College Road
St Patrick’s Parish Church
St Kieran’s College, including gateway.
St Camillus Convent and additional building besides, College Road.

Dean Street
Saint Canice’s Church, including cast-iron campanile, church boundary wall and pavements

Dublin Road
Railway Station, including good sheds and footbridge
Windgap Cottage
St John’s Graveyard
St John’s Church, including Parochial House
Garnecreene, Dublin Rd / O’Loughlin Road

Friary Street (Walkin Street)
Capuchin Friary

Green Street
Greens Bridge
19 Green Street

Green’s Hill (new)
5 Green’s Hill

High Street
The Tholsel
Butter Slip and 79 – 82 High St (includes substantial remains of pre-18th century house)
1 High Street
2 High Street
3 High Street
4 –9 High Street, including spur stones
8 High Street, ‘The Tholsel Bar’
9 High Street, ‘World Choice’ – Manning Travel
10 High Street, ‘The Book Centre’
11 High Street, Murphy’s
11 High Street, ‘Pauls’
16 High Street, (former Bradburys)
The Hole in the Wall
17 High Street, (‘Sasha’)
18 High Street (including shopfront)
19 High Street
21 High Street
22/23 High Street, ‘Mahoney’s’
24 High Street, ‘Duggan’ and ‘Supermac’ (former Monster House)
25 High Street ‘Europa Superstores’
26 High Street, ‘Whites’
27 High Street, Ulster Bank
28/29 High Street, (‘Pound City’ and ‘Irish Heartbeat’)
44 High Street, ‘The Metropole’
50/51 High Street, ‘Dores’
52-53 High Street, ‘Phone Store’ and ‘Flowers by Lucy’
63 High Street, ‘The O.K. House’
65 High Street, ‘Dores Tea Rooms’
66 High Street, ‘The Marble City Bar’
67 High Street, ‘Prado’ and ‘The Fashion Depot’
68-69 High Street High Street, ‘Motor Garage’ (former Burton and Gas Company, including chimney piece with Shee Alms)
72 High Street
77 High Street, ‘Toy Master’
79-82 High Street, including substantial Tudor remains
83 High Street, ‘Lifestyle Sports’
84 High Street
85 High Street, Murphy
86 High Street, Murphy
87 High Street, ‘The Corner House’
88 and 90 High Street, ‘Goods’
91 High Street, ‘Aqua’
94 High Street, ‘Oliver of Kilkenny’
95 High Street, ‘Allen & Sons’
96 High Street, ‘Farrell’
98 High Street, ‘Ground Floor Café’
99-100 High Street, ‘The Harp Bar’

Hebron Road
Former Workhouse
Hebron House

Horse Barrack Lane
Smithwick’s Brewery

Irish Town (new)
1 – 3 Irishtown

James Street
St. Mary’s Cathederal, including St Mary’s Centre, The Presbytery and boundary wall.

John’s Green
Former hospital, converted into Youth Hostel

John’s Quay
Carnegie Library

John Street
St. John’s Priory

John Street, Lower
1 John Street, ‘Matt the Millers’
10 – 12 John Street Lower, ‘O’ Reilly’s Wallpapers’
13 John Street Lower, ‘O’ Keeffe’
15 John Street Lower, ‘O’ Keeffe’
16 John Street Lower, ‘The Garden Centre’, including remains of 16th century building
62 – 63 John Street Lower, ‘Lawlors’
71 John Street Lower
72 John Street Lower, ‘The Golf Shop’ and ‘Helens Hair Salon’
73 – 75 John Street Lower (‘Wongs Deli’ and Kilkenny County Council Area Office)
78 John Street Lower, ‘Nolan’s First Choice Travel Shop’
79 – 81 John Street Lower
86 – 87 John Street Lower
88 – 89 John Street Lower
County Hall (Kilkenny College), including gateway
Johns Bridge

John Street Upper
43 Upper John St, “ Lawlors” Public House

Kenny’s Well Road
Kenny’s Well
33-34 Kenny’s Well Road

Kieran Street
Kytelers Inn
30-31 Kieran Street, “Bollards” Public House
The Pantry
43 Kieran Street

Kilcreen
Kilcreen Lodge

Market Yard
Tea Houses

Maudlin Street
Magdalen Castle
Nursery House
Bastion of St. John the Evangelists Priory, including defence wall.

New Building Lane
Remains of the New Building

Ormonde Road
Talbot’s Castle
Presbyterian Church
City Technical School

Parliament Street
The Courthouse
Rothe House
12 Parliament St, including steps.
17-18 Parliament St and Tudor gable to the rear of 18
19-21 Parliament St, includes substantial Tudor remains at rear
23 Parliament St
25-30 Parliament St
31 Parliament
35-36 Parliament St
37 Parliament St, “McGrath”
38-39 Parliament St
40-41 Parliament St
42-43 Parliament St
44 Parliament St

Parliament Street
Butler House and Gardens
Graveyard of St Patrick’s
1 and 2 Patrick St
3 Patrick St, including McGrath’s Hardware shopfront
5-10 Patrick St
12 Patrick St
13 Patrick St
18-19 Patrick St
20-21 Patrick St
23 Patrick St, “Club House Hotel”
24-25 Patrick St
26 Patrick St, Kilkenny Theatre
28 Patrick St
29-30 Patrick St
31-32 Patrick St, including rear of no. 32
33 Patrick St.

Rose Inn Street
1 Rose Inn St, “Castle Cabs”
2 Rose Inn St, “Molloy’s Bakery”
3 Rose Inn St, “Antiques”
4 Rose Inn St, “John O’ Connell Pharmacy”
10 Rose Inn St, “Mobile Connections”
11 Rose Inn St, “Billy Brett’s”
17 Rose Inn St, “White’s Victualler”
19 Rose Inn St, “Kilkenny Crystal”
21-22 Rose Inn St, “Katz on the Parade”
23 Rose Inn St, “Web Talk”
25 Rose Inn St, “Syd Harkins”
26 Rose Inn St, “Ace Repairs”
Rose Inn St, Shee Alms House
28 Rose Inn St, “Tall Story Book Shop”
29 Rose Inn St, “Andy’s Tavern”
30 Rose Inn St, “Kilkenny Travel”
31 Rose Inn St,
32 Rose Inn St
33 Rose Inn St
34 Rose Inn St

St Mary’s Lane
St Mary’s Church and Graveyard, including walls and gates
St Mary’s Alms Houses

The Horseslip
1-2 Tynan’s Bridge House Bar
3 The Horseslip
5 The Horseslip

The Parade
Kilkenny Castle, gardens, parks and walls
Castle Stables (Now Kilkenny Design Workshops)
Nos 1-3, Bank of Ireland
No. 4 Atheneum Assembly Rooms
Nos 8-12 The Parade

Troy’s Gate
1-2 Troy’s Gate, Bambrick’s Troy’s Gate Bar

Wellington Square
1-7 Wellington Square
13-14 Chapel Lane

William Street
Chapel
1 William St
2 William St
3 William St
4 William St
5-8 William St
9-10 William St

Streets and Squares
The Parade: Municipal Walk with a pier of channelled cut limestone gate piers with decorative wrought iron lamp holders. Railings, steps and Horse Trough.

Artefacts and Structures
St Canice’s Steps
Lacken Steps
Lacken Well
Scot’s Lock Canal
Dukesmeadows (Ormonde Woollen Mills)
Archersgrove (Crow’s Well Canal Lock)
Railway Bridge
Archersgrove (Fennessey’s Mill)
Blackfriars Bridge
Greens Bridge Woollen Mills
Bleach Green (Woollen Mills)
Nore Canal (Section between River Nore and Dukesmeadows Mill)

Black Mill St.
Cast-iron wall mounted Victorian post box, c. 1890, between no. 18 and 19 Black Mill St

Bonnettstown Road
Cast-iron borough boundary marker plaque, dated 1844, set into lime rendered stone boundary wall. Location is difficult to specify.

Butts Green
Butts Cross, Butts Green, 1605-1620, small limestone votive cross. Remounted, 1891, on new limestone rubble base.

Castlecomer Road
Castlecomer Road/Newpark Drive: Series of cut-stone benchmarks, c. 1850, inscribed W^D.

Castlecomer New Road
Cut and tooled limestone segmental arched gateway, built 1851, with projecting impost and dated keystone, brick archivolt and pair of tongue and groove deal doors with wicket. Later stone and concrete tile coping. Location: between 10 Castlecomer Road and Doyle’ Hire and Sales.

Dublin Road
Painted cast-iron post box, c. 1940, at junction with Castlecomer New Road
Cast-iron wall mounted post box, c. 1915 at junction with Maudlin St.

Greensbridge Street
Round arched over ground tunnel, c. 1766, beneath Greensbridge; built of coursed limestone rubble, having cutstone block and start voussoirs.

Irishtown
Painted cast-iron post box, c. 1875, with raised insignia of Queen Victoria, location: between nos 3 and 4, Irishtown.
Irishtown (rear of 16 Irishtown), Pre 1700, medieval cutstone work jutting from site of Irishtown wall; possibly a bridge abutment.

James Street
Cast-iron wall mounted Edwardian post box, c. 1905, in front of school, opposite Cathedral carved limestone memorial plaque, dated 1771 –1774, formerly affixed to Catholic chapel previously on school site.

Johns Green
Multiple arch rock faced masonry former railway viaduct, c. 1865. Arch spanning Barrack St replaced by flat plated-steel span.
Rough dresses gate piers and boundary wall to former railway yard.

Maudlin Street
Limestone milestone, late 18th century, with carved numeral “57”, at entrance to Magdalen Court.

Michael Street
Wrought iron gas lampstand, c. 1885, with ladder bracket and rectangular frame for lamp post. Opposite 22, Michael Street.

Newpark Drive
Cast-iron borough marker, dated 1844. At corner of barracks site, opposite Woodbrook.

O’ Loughlin Road
Limestone memorial slab, c. 1920. In public green space opposite Sports Grounds.

Parliament Street
Piers and plaques marking market entrance,
Spur stones and remains of Market gate piers,
Painted cast-iron post box, C. 1875 with raised insignia of Queen Victoria. In front of the Courthouse.

Patrick Street
Cast-iron post box, c. 1915, with Royal monogram of King George V., in front of no. 22 Patrick St.
Painted cast-iron post box with raised insignia of Queen Victoria, c. 1890, at junction of Patrick St/High St.
32 Patrick St (rear): pre 1700: Ogee headed window opening and other cut stone fragments, reset in current position, c. 1817.

Patrick Street Upper
Late Victorian wall mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1890, in front of no. 28-29 Patrick St.

Rose Inn Street
Finely carved limestone animal drinking trough, erected 1902. At the junction of The Parade.

Walkin Street
Cast-iron wall mounted post box, c. 1915, with Royal monogram of King George V, at the junction to Parnell Street.

Watergate
Water Gate Bridge: Low hump back, double arched bridge, c. 1650. North parapet rebuilt with old stone, c. 1970.