Barberstown Lower

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barberstown Lower, from 115 m² to 231,765 m² (23.18 ha, 57.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Barberstown Lower 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.

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of new two storey dwelling with access via existing entrance and driveway to applicant's family dwelling, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21894

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  i) Alterations to existing layout & all elevations. ii) Construction of a new 2 storey extension over part of existing single storey dwelling. iii) Conversion of existing integrated double garage into living area. iv) Construction of a new single storey domestic double garage. v) Installation of a new wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20685

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 Barberstown Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD010-023 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the top of a long, gentle, E-facing tillage slope, in an area of extensively reclaimed land. When recorded in the mid-1980's a large, penannular (open to the SE), sub-circular area (diams. c. 110m N-S; c. 94m E-W) was defined by a faintly visible fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.4m) (SMR file). The site is in stubble and the enclosing fosse (Wth 8m; D 0.2-0.3m) is only visible as a short arc at SSW (L 15m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2836 (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 Barberstown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Barberstown Lower

Area

812,343 m² (81.23 ha, 200.73 acres)

Civil parish

Straffan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Straffan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Straffan electoral division: 2,513 people in 758 households; 83% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrass Lower, Ardrass Upper, Barberstown, Barberstown Upper, Newtownmacabe, Posseckstown, Windgates

Placenames

Barberstown Lower 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.