Allenswood

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Allenswood, from 1,842 m² to 167,106 m² (16.71 ha, 41.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1Agriculture
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Strategic Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Jul 2026N/a

  for (A) the construction of 272 no. residential units comprising: 101 no. terraced houses (54 no. 3-bed 2 no. storey houses, 28 no. 4-bed 2 storey houses and 19 no. 4-bed 3 no. storey houses); 12 no. own door 1-bed apartment units in an end of terrace (3 storey) arrangement in 4 no. locations throughout the site; 78 no. duplex apartment units (33 no. 2-bed and 45 no. 3-bed units) provided in terraced and end of terrace (3 storey) arrangements in 13 no. locations throughout the site; and provision of a mixed use area comprising 81 no. apartments / duplex apartments units (29 no. 1-bed, 36 no. 2-bed, and 16 no. 3-bed units) in 4 no. blocks (Blocks A1 to A4) ranging from part 3 no. storeys up to part 6 no. storeys in total, including a podium / ground floor level; (B) The provision at ground floor of Blocks A1 to A4 of a childcare facility (c. 500 sq.m GFA) and associated play area, 3 no. commercial units with a total GFA of c. 615 sq.m (for Class 1- Shop, or Class 2- Office / Professional Services, or Class 11- Gym, or Restaurant / Café use, including ancillary takeaway use, or Class 8- Health Centre / Civic, or Cultural Use); a Restaurant / Café unit (c. 358 sq.m GFA), bike stores, bin stores, plant areas, 1 no. ESB substation and associated switch rooms, and car parking; (C) Block A1 (3 no. storeys and part 4 no. storeys over podium / ground floor level) includes 33 no. apartments (10 no. 1-bed 19 no. 2-bed, and 4 no. 3-bed units [including apartments over 2 levels]) from first floor to fourth floor level; (D) Block A2 (2 no. storeys over podium / ground floor level) includes 4 no. 3-bed duplex apartment units from first floor to second floor level; (E) Block A3 (4 no. storeys and part 5 no. storeys over podium / ground floor level) includes 36 no. apartments (15 no. 1-bed, 17 no. 2-bed units and 4 no. 3-bed units [including apartments over 2 levels]) from first floor to fifth floor level; (F) Block A4 (3 no. storeys over podium / ground floor level) includes 8 no. duplex apartment units (4 no. 1-bed and 4 no. 3 bed units) from first floor to third floor level; (G) All apartments / duplex apartment units and houses are provided with private amenity space in the form of gardens, balconies, or terraces; (H) The development provides public open space and communal open space to serve the residential units, and c. 1 ha of a linear park to the north of the Royal Canal; (I) Provision of 2 no. vehicular and pedestrian / cyclist accesses from the R149 to the east a

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660746

• 28 Jun 2022Conditional

  development at this site in the townlands of Mariavilla, Carton Demesne, Oldcarton, Catherinestown, Kellystown, Ravensdale, Sion and Confey. The development will traverse the administrative areas of both Kildare County Council and Meath County Council. The development within the Kildare County Council administrative area will consist of: (a) Permanent Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (MEICA) upgrade works, upgrade of the existing chemical dosing system and ancillary works at the Maynooth Wastewater Pumping Station (WWPS) site in the townland of Mariavilla; and, (b) Provision of approximately 7.9km new pipeline (approximately 9.8km total development length within Kildare and Meath) and associated infrastructure (air valves, scour valves, flow meter, ventilation columns etc.) between the Maynooth WWPS and existing Irish Water infrastructure along the R149 in the townland of Confey. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies the subject application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22784

• 22 Feb 2022Conditional

  (Extension of Duration for previous Planning File 16/1341) the construction of 3 No. loose sheds with feed passages, a storage shed, manure pit and a walled silage base, together with all its associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the revised location of vehicular access

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 22182

• 30 Aug 2018Refused

  a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, recessed domestic entrance and driveway, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181059

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 Allenswood.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Allenswood.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2969 (ZIP).

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 Allenswood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Allenswood

Area

265,543 m² (26.55 ha, 65.62 acres)

Civil parish

Confey, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Leixlip, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Leixlip electoral division: 16,755 people in 5,741 households; 79% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenswood (Co. Dublin), Confey

Placenames

Allenswood 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.