# Altamont, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghade, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow; in Irish An Charraig. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 391,299 m² (39.13 ha, 96.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 195,125 m² (19.51 ha, 48.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghade, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/aghade.md - Barony: Forth - Electoral division: Kilbride, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 458 people lived in 164 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3342 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10010 - Centre: latitude 52.736116, longitude -6.718359 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altamont, from 12,083 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres) to 378,168 m² (37.82 ha, 93.45 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5721529: 378,168 m² (37.82 ha, 93.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5721529.md - Parcel 800656: 12,083 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/800656.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Altamont in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 5 Oct 2023, Carlow County Council 23170: Conditional. Permission. 2 no. disabled parking spaces and 2 no. EV charging points to the existing public parking area. The proposal also includes for a proposed new length of circa 327.35 sq.m concrete post and wire fencing to the northern site boundary and all other associated site works and ancillaries. These works are taking place within the curtilage of Protected Structure Altamont House, CW89. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23170/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley, site code 000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CW013-079: House - fortified house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW013-079----. The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Earliest portion of house distinguishable from later additions (early eighteenth century and later) by massive walls, in which one gun loop is still visible. Walls at N are c. 1m thick, those at S are considerably thicker, possibly to incorporate kitchens said to have been in this part of the house. There are no vaulted ceilings; above basement walls are narrower than those below. House said to have originally faced E (Bence-Jones 1978, 3). 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Altamont House, country house, 1740–1780, Regional interest, registry number 10301326, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CW®no=10301326. Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house, c. 1760, incorporating fabric of earlier house on site with polygonal bay to front and bow to rear. Extended to sides, c. 1871, with gables added. Interior retains joinery, c. 1760, and decorative plasterwork, c. 1880. Gateway to site. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Altamont, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Altamont. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/carlow/altamont.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/altamont.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/altamont.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Altamont with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinastraw: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballinastraw.md - Ballintemple: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballintemple.md - Drummin: https://everytownland.com/carlow/drummin-10254.md - Sherwoodpark: https://everytownland.com/carlow/sherwoodpark.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/carlow/altamont - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/altamont