# Barberstown Lower, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Straffan, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 812,343 m² (81.23 ha, 200.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,232 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Straffan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/straffan.md - Barony: Salt North - Electoral division: Straffan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25444 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80131 - Centre: latitude 53.327828, longitude -6.600521 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barberstown Lower, from 115 m² to 231,765 m² (23.18 ha, 57.27 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5173550: 231,765 m² (23.18 ha, 57.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5173550.md - Parcel 1028074: 185,563 m² (18.56 ha, 45.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1028074.md - Parcel 4916482: 153,465 m² (15.35 ha, 37.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4916482.md - Parcel 1047769: 91,390 m² (9.14 ha, 22.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1047769.md - Parcel 1049157: 57,925 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1049157.md - Parcel 1021294: 19,057 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021294.md - Parcel 1066444: 14,729 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066444.md - Parcel 1076041: 10,361 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1076041.md - Parcel 1053914: 9,146 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053914.md - Parcel 1048516: 7,138 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1048516.md - Parcel 1042297: 6,564 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042297.md - Parcel 1053462: 4,838 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053462.md - Parcel 1089720: 4,475 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089720.md - Parcel 5735228: 4,170 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5735228.md - Parcel 1081127: 3,232 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081127.md - Parcel 1065072: 3,070 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065072.md - Parcel 4893424: 2,683 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4893424.md - Parcel 1047662: 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1047662.md - Parcel 1083914: 2,099 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1083914.md - Parcel 5735258: 1,957 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5735258.md - Parcel 4893300: 1,870 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4893300.md - Parcel 1066604: 1,105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066604.md - Parcel 1038542: 881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038542.md - Parcel 2668087: 413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2668087.md - Parcel 1065564: 358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065564.md - Parcel 1067160: 335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1067160.md - Parcel 3420439: 282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3420439.md - Parcel 1047231: 274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1047231.md - Parcel 4924032: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4924032.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 21 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21894: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21894/0 - 30 Jun 2020, Kildare County Council 20685: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20685/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barberstown Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD010-023: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD010-023----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barberstown Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2836.zip (ZIP). - 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/kildare/barberstown-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardrass Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ardrass-lower.md - Ardrass Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ardrass-upper.md - Barberstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown.md - Barberstown Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown-upper.md - Newtownmacabe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtownmacabe.md - Posseckstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/posseckstown.md - Windgates: https://everytownland.com/kildare/windgates.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/kildare/barberstown-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/barberstown-lower