Maplestown

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maplestown, from 1,623 m² to 286,336 m² (28.63 ha, 70.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Maplestown 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 Feb 2025Conditional

  to construct a new sheep housing unit, concrete aprons and all associated site works to existing farmyard

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560042

• 12 Feb 2025N/a

  to Construct a New Housing Unit, Concrete Aprons and all associated works to existing farmyard.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560029

• 25 Jan 2025Conditional

  Refurbishment and Alterations to existing Cottage to consist of 4 bedrooms and bathroom ,the refurbishment is to include the replacement of existing damaged roof.the construction of a new extension to the rear and side of the existing cottage, to include new kitchen, office, lounge and sitting room. the removal and replacement of existing septic tank with a new 3.5m3 tank. the install of a soakaway to the rear of the property to discharge surface rainwater. And all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560017

• 22 Jan 2025N/a

  to construct a new sheep housing unit, concrete aprons and all associated works to existing farmyard

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560015

• 15 Jan 2025N/a

  refurbishment and alterations to existing Cottage to consist of 4 bedrooms and bathroom ,the refurbishment is to include the replacement of existing damaged roof. The construction of a new extension to the rear and side of the existing cottage, to include new kitchen, office, lounge and sitting room, the removal and replacement of existing septic tank with a new 3.5m3 tank. The install of a soakaway to the rear of the property to discharge surface rainwater and all associated works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560007

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  extension to side and rear of dwelling, detached shed and wooden chalet

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 23117

• 15 Jun 2023N/a

  extension to side and rear of dwelling, detached shed and wooden chalet

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 23101

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a new grain / straw & machinery store, concrete aprons and all associated works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 21148

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the erection of a milking parlour and collecting yard, cattle handling area, dairy, machine room, farm office, storeroom, meal bin, slatted tanks, extension to existing cattle shed, concrete yards and ancillary works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2147

• 10 Oct 2019Refused

  for the importation of clean topsoil and subsoil into the subject site of 13.01 hectares at Maplestown, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow, in order that the site can be restored in compliance with condition 17 of the grant of permission reference number 221741 from An Bord Pleanala. It is proposed to remediate approximately 8.44 ha of the site and it is estimated that this will require approximately 122,218 cubic metres of greenfield, inert soil and stone. This will be carried out over an eight year period with no more than 24,900 tonnes of soil being imported in any one year. The application includes the installation of a weigh bridge, a temporary site office and canteen, wheel wash, portaloo and carry out all ancillary site works. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19403

• 26 Sept 2019N/a

  the importation of clean topsoil and subsoil into the subject site of 13.01 hectares, in order that the site can be restored in compliance with conditon 17 of the grant of permission reference number 221741 from An Bord Pleanala. It is proposed to remediate approximately 8.44ha of the site and it is estimated that this will require approximately 122.218 cubic metres of greenfield, inert soil and stone. This will be carried out over an eight-year period with no more than 24,900 tonnes of soil being imported in any one year. This application includes the installation of a weighbridge, a temporary site office and canteen, wheelwash, portaloo and carry out all ancillary site works. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from Carlow County Council.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19384

• 13 Aug 2019N/a

  Ext of Duration on PL 06/842, An Bord Pleanála PL 01.221741- to extract and process sand and gravel at Maplestown Co. Carlow

  Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 19312

• 8 Feb 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a new sheep housing unit, concrete aprons and all associated works to existing farmyard

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1834

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 Maplestown.

Recorded monuments

• CW001-001 Enclosure
  Description

  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 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as oval rise (indicated by 400 ft contour) enclosed by bank (dims. c. 70m NW-SE, 60m NE-SW). Bank ploughed out c. 30 years ago. Appears to be a small drumlin-like gravel mound.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maplestown.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Maplestown.

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 Maplestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Maplestown · Baile an Mhablaigh

Area

1,975,568 m² (197.56 ha, 488.17 acres)

Civil parish

Rahill, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Rahill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahill electoral division: 792 people in 272 households; 83% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broadstown (Co. Kildare), Carrigeen South (Co. Kildare), Garrettstown, Irongrange Upper (Co. Wicklow), Rahill, Ricketstown

Placenames

Maplestown 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.