Barrogstown West
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile Bharróg Thiar
- Area
- 47.4 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 2,351 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrogstown West, from 1,566 m² to 380,891 m² (38.09 ha, 94.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Barrogstown West 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Sept 2025N/a
for 1) Retention of an existing single storey extension to an existing dwelling 2) a domestic single storey extension to an existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561104
30 Sept 2025Conditional
for 1) Retention of an existing single storey extension to an existing dwelling 2) a domestic single storey extension to an existing dwelling
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561108
18 Aug 2025Refused
for the sub-division of existing family site for the construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey detached domestic garage, utilisation of family entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560935
19 Dec 2019Conditional
the construction of an extension to the side and rear of the existing house in conjunction with the addition of a dormer window to the side of the existing property at roof level. The proposed extension will accommodate a kitchen and living room. Permission is also sought for the application of an insulated render finish to the external walls of the house in conjunction with the installation of new windows & doors to the exiting house. The work involve some alterations to the existing layout internally in conjunction with any associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191411
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Barrogstown West.
Recorded monuments
- KD011-040 Designed landscape - folly
Description
An extravagant and monumental folly structure closing a 2 mile vista from the garden front of Castletown House. Built c. 1740, it consists of a central obelisk set upon a series of superimposed arches which are also surmounted by carved stone pineapples and eagles on pedestals. The overall height of the structure is approx 140ft and its design is attributed to the architect Richard Castle. The folly was commissioned by Katherine Conolly, widow of William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, to commemorate her husband and provided relief work for local labourers during a severe winter. Mariga Guinness, a founding member of the Irish Georgian Society, was buried below the central arch in 1989. The 'Conolly Folly' is now a National Monument (No. 681) in State Ownership. 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 Barrogstown West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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_2865 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Barrogstown West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Barrogstown West · Baile Bharróg Thiar
- Area
- 473,793 m² (47.38 ha, 117.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt North
- Electoral division
- Maynooth, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Maynooth electoral division: 18,729 people in 6,110 households; 65% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygoran, Barrogstown, Barrogstown East, Railpark
- Placenames
- Barrogstown West 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.