Bawn
Townland in the civil parish of Harristown, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 51.2 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 16,908 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawn, from 2,223 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 105,348 m² (10.53 ha, 26.03 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 Bawn 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
2 Dec 2022Conditional
for an entire two storey dwelling as constructed, relocation of effluent treatment system and polishing filter, revised site boundary and all associated siteworks at Bawn, Kildangan, and previously granted planning permission under planning reference 18/44
Retention · Kildare County Council, 221442
22 Apr 2022Conditional
sought for dwelling house and domestic storage shed. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of retention permission for modifications to dwelling granted under ref 04/2374 and retention permission for domestic shed
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22465
13 Apr 2022N/a
for dwelling house and domestic storage shed
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22428
29 Nov 2019Conditional
the construction of a detached, storey & a half/single storey dwelling, detached garage, foul water to on-site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191331
20 Nov 2019N/a
the construction of a detached dormer bungalow, detached garage, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191295
13 Jun 2018Refused
a 1 & 1/2 storey dwelling, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soak aways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18700
16 Jan 2018Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, and percolation area, recessed entrance and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1844
26 Apr 2017N/a
the construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, recessed entrance and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17472
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 Bawn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bawn.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bawn.
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 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bawn.
- 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 Bawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Bawn
- Area
- 511,755 m² (51.18 ha, 126.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Harristown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Harristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Harristown electoral division: 479 people in 158 households; 85% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cherrymills, Eskerhill, Lenagorra, Pullagh, Rickardstown Lower, Rickardstown Upper
- Placenames
- Bawn 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.