County Kilkenny Village Status Scandal Exposes Systemic Attack On Rural Ireland
The cult like obsession with Utopian 15 minute cities requires the systematic destruction of towns and villages like Kilmanagh.
In my home county of Kilkenny, and in the Castlecomer LEA in which I ran as a candidate in the local elections, a scandal of massive proportions is developing that will undoubtedly be repeated across the country by rogue councils. The village of Kilmanagh has been set upon by their local establishment councillors and have had their village status stripped away from them without warning or precedence. This was done under the cover of darkness when the village was redesignated in the 2021-2027 City and County Development Plan as a Rural Node leading to the villagers taking up arms against the council. All of this boils down to ridiculous, vague classifications that overlap with each other. It is clear from reading these documents that the classification of rural node is essentially the mechanism of euthanising what are clearly villages in a process that the local councils refer to as “sterilisation”.
So what exactly is a rural node, a village or a town then?
Rural node: Below the level of the Smaller town/village in the settlement hierarchy are Rural Nodes, and the wider rural area. Rural Nodes are small generally un-serviced settlements that do not have a settlement boundary and where development will be limited to incremental local growth appropriate to their size and character. Housing developments in and around these settlements will be subject to compliance with the rural housing policy. source
Village: A group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet (cluster of houses without a church) and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area. The global consensus on what a village is is that it is a small rural settlement with a place of worship and a central point.
Town: A built-up area with a name, defined boundaries, and local government, that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city.
I can confirm to the reader, who may have yet to visit Kilmanagh, that it is absolutely a village and is steeped in a history of being exactly that. In fact, it was once referred to as a ‘City of Song’ and was “a place of great distinction and importance in ancient times.” By Rev. Fr. Holohan In 1883.
“Once thou wert a ‘ city of song,’
And glorious memories to thee belong,
For from thy renowned monastery in ages long gone by
Songs of praise daily ascended to the Throne of The Most High.”
Kilmanagh is literally ticking every single conceivable box to be regarded as a village but this new movable goalpost of “Rural Node” is being deployed by Project Ireland 2040 as a grim reaper over the hills and valleys of rural Ireland, coming for its very soul.
The spokesperson for the village, a man by the name of Michael Egan, gave an interview with KCLR outlining the issue. In the interview he states that in all previous development plans, Kilmanagh was classified as a town or village. Michael Egan is correct as it can be seen plain as day here in the the 2014-2020 County Development Plan that Kilmanagh was indeed a village. Michael outlines the concerns of the villagers well on the radio and they have since been approached by the full suite of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Greens and other establishment party councillors and told that this was a minor error in the drafting of the document. An “anomaly” as it was called by Fine Gael cllr. Mary Hilda Cavanagh as I sat right behind her in the council chamber on Monday gone.
The official line by the council, and I am a first hand witness to this fact and so too are members of the press who were there, is that this was accidental, unintended and that an endeavour to reverse this was to be commenced via way of amendment and a vote. About twenty members of the Kilmanagh village committee were also present to witness this absolute farce. I am going to say it straight, this was no accident. There is no anomaly. This was an intentional act of malice towards the village of Kilmanagh to diminish its claim on funding and supports through programs such as the Town and Village Renewal Scheme. By removing the village status, which can be traced back to the 1300’s, Kilkenny county council will effectively remove any possibility for the locals to secure planning, never mind the city folk who are trying to resettle to the beautiful village. In fact, in the very same document that removes the village status of Kilmanagh, the council admits they intend to target these nodes using “Sterilisation Agreements”
“In areas where significant levels of rural housing development have taken place on the edges of urban areas within the county and where the Council considers such areas are becoming over developed the council may seek agreement under Section 47 of the Planning Act (sterilisation agreement) if it considers it necessary to regulate development in the area.”
- page 105, 2021-2027 City and County Development Plan.
Michael Egan, spokesperson of the village status group, used the word “Sterilised” in his interview earlier in the year, when a wind farm proposal was being rammed down their throats. I believe from his choice of words he has read the documentation top to tail and is rightly terrified for the future of his village.
“I think Kilmanagh village will be sterilised from a planning perspective, and from a development perspective. It’s a beautiful village, there’s so many things that can be developed here, and we’re pulling together a group to get a vision for the community; things like housing for the elderly, all this sort of stuff. We’re not sure that we’ll even get planning on this village again. It’s a rural node now, it was a village, so people are really, really concerned out here.”
Michael Egan, KCLR News 27/05/2024
https://kclr96fm.com/public-information-meeting-regarding-proposed-kilmanagh-wind-farm-postponed/
Now that you have the full scoop, do you believe that was a genuine mistake or “anomaly” as Mary Hilda Cavanagh claims? Are the windmill proposals and planning applications coincidental? These councillors are equal parts ignorant as they are dangerous. They will carve up Ireland before our very eyes and sterilise every village in the place if we don’t get our nails under this thing. I challenge the readers of this article to research their investigate their local councils for the same or similar schemes. How many villages have lost their status nationally? Let’s get digging folks. Fight! Fight! Fight!
Great bit of information there Stephen, actually quite serendipitous too. There is a massive development in my former abode of Clondalkin with a newly built train station also. It’s built on the Fonthill Road on a massive old green fields site right beside the Grand Canal. It’s close to my job so I’ve seen the building progress first hand. Susanne actually sent me this yesterday believe it or not suggesting it looks like the makings of a 15 minute city. Here’s the link, https://sevenmills.com/ the sales pitch is as you would expect, sterile, soulless and global. I fear the war has only just begun. They will offer landowners huge compensation for large plots of land to build more and more of these developments all across the country. Dublin was the test bed as it so often is and we already have the likes of Tyrellstown which is predominantly foreigners, particularly people of African descent and Adamstown in Lucan which is almost entirely Muslim. This development has been expanded further out to Tandy’s Lane with an adjoining development called Shackleton which goes nearly to join up with Celbridge. The buildings are all like Lego. Lifeless and monotonous with often a playground (Adamstown has cricket fields so you can see clearly the target demographic). To me the plan is clear. Invest in these new ‘sustainable’ developments and cut funding to the more antiquated, historical and culturally authentic villages resulting in slow economic death. Over time through urban planning models handed down from the global think tanks behind all this, it will create multicultural, deracinated, synthetic communities which are merely consumer/economically based and driven, all with their own culture which will also result in our culture being just another culture on this island and god forbid even marginalised. We must fight against this bureaucratic wickedness with all that we have, because this is a sure approach and methodology that could end Ireland for good.
we're fighting for our souls on every imaginable level. and the souls past and future too. There seems to be no end to this evil. Their long term plans quietly implemented behind our backs. Thanks Stephen, for bringing this out in the open, and to whoever your source is too.