# Barberstown Upper, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Straffan, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 606,424 m² (60.64 ha, 149.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 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/25445 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80132 - Centre: latitude 53.325172, longitude -6.61469 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barberstown Upper, from 46 m² to 467,246 m² (46.72 ha, 115.46 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1083913: 467,246 m² (46.72 ha, 115.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1083913.md - Parcel 4106578: 95,373 m² (9.54 ha, 23.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106578.md - Parcel 1081131: 11,968 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081131.md - Parcel 1074346: 3,619 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074346.md - Parcel 1071108: 3,543 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1071108.md - Parcel 4981260: 3,407 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981260.md - Parcel 1034602: 3,014 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034602.md - Parcel 5322056: 2,958 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5322056.md - Parcel 1026991: 1,653 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026991.md - Parcel 1089827: 1,380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089827.md - Parcel 4106560: 738 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106560.md - Parcel 2658212: 365 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2658212.md - Parcel 5313242: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5313242.md - Parcel 3484155: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3484155.md - Parcel 1040628: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040628.md - Parcel 4106571: 46 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106571.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Barberstown Upper 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. - 12 Oct 2018, Kildare County Council 181251: Conditional. Permission. construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing house (as seen from the road frontage) and new waste water treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181251/0 - 2 Aug 2017, Kildare County Council 17872: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey extension to side of existing dwelling, all associated site and landscaping works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17872/0 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 Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD010-042: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD010-042----. In tillage. Visible on a 1995 OSi Orthophoto and also on later Google earth and Bing satellite imagery as the cropmarks of two concentric fosses enclosing a circular area (estimated diameter c. 40m). A second, very faint cropmark c. 50m to the SE may be the remains of a ringbarrow. (pers. comm. D. Brennan, 30-03-2015). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22-12-2015 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 Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barberstown Upper 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) - Barberstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown.md - Barberstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barberstown-lower.md - Bawnoges: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bawnoges.md - Baybush: https://everytownland.com/kildare/baybush.md - Newtownmacabe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtownmacabe.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-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/barberstown-upper