Betaghstown
Townland in the civil parish of Clane, barony of Clane, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile na mBiatach
- Area
- 251.4 ha
- 621 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 7,758 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Betaghstown, from 67 m² to 304,346 m² (30.43 ha, 75.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Betaghstown 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
21 Jul 2026N/a
retention permission for a single storey extension to side of existing single storey dwelling. Planning permission is also sought for a single storey extension to the front, side and rear of existing single storey dwelling and to include a family flat, alterations to front elevation, removal of existing storage shed, decommissioning of existing septic tank with new treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660838
17 Jul 2026N/a
for a single storey extension to side of existing single storey dwelling. Planning permission is also sought for a single storey extension to the front, side and rear of existing single storey dwelling and to include a family flat, alterations to front elevation, removal of existing storage shed, decommissioning of existing septic tank with new treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660817
3 Dec 2025Conditional
re-location of previously approved secondary effluent treatment system as granted under planning file 2560631 to new location on site and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561364
26 Nov 2025N/a
relocation of previously approved secondary effluent treatment system as granted under planning file 2560631 to new location on site and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561329
22 Jul 2025Conditional
for the continuance of the temporary change of use for further period of five years of the dwelling, ancillary buildings and attendant grounds. The temporary change of use is for the dwelling, ancillary buildings and attendant grounds from residential use to institutional use for the purposes of providing respite, educational, social, recreational and sessional care on a daily and overnight basis to young persons and their families with social based difficulties (originating from a range of scenarios which may include intellectual, mental or learning difficulty) and was granted a temporary permission under planning register reference nos. 10/640, 15/956 and 20/652
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560825
9 Jun 2025Conditional
for single storey rear extension to existing single storey detached bungalow as constructed, retention permission for two no. single storey domestic storage sheds used ancillary to main house on site and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of decommission existing septic tank with new secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560631
9 Sept 2022Conditional
(a) Retention of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing single storey dwelling; (b) Retention of single storey outbuilding storage areas along with all associated site development nd facilitating works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 221111
27 Jul 2022Conditional
(Extension of Duration from previous Planning Permission 17/182) Construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, construction of a building consisting 4 stables, 1 tack room, 1 office with W/C and a domestic garage, horse walker, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 22921
15 Feb 2022N/a
Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 17/182 - Construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, construction of a building consisting 4 stables, 1 tack room, 1 office with W/C and a domestic garage, horse walker, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 22156
11 Feb 2022Conditional
construction of equine stable block including tack room and WC, haybarn, dungstead, effluent treatment system, new recessed agricultural entrance and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22148
29 Oct 2020Conditional
Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 15/758 - of alterations to dormer bungalow and effluent treatment system as constructed under planning file 05/1816, full planning permission to complete dormer bungalow, construct a detached domestic garage, and all ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 201286
24 Jun 2020Conditional
for development consisting of the continuance of the temporary change of use for further period of five years of the dwelling and attendant grounds. The temporary change of use is for the dwelling and attendant grounds from residential use to institutional use for the purposes of providing respite, educational, social, recreational and sessional care on a daily and overnight basis to young persons and their families with social based difficulties (originating from a range of scenarios which may include intellectual, mental or learning difficulty) and was granted a temporary permission under planning register reference Nos. 10/640 and 15/956, Extern Ireland, a Company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital formed with charitable objects and is a subsidiary of Extern Group with Registered Charitable Status (CHY 15770),
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20652
2 Jun 2020N/a
(ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307284.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP ) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Kilberry Bog Group
23 Aug 2018N/a
The construction of a new detached dormer type dwelling along with a single storey detached domestic garage, shared entrance from public road to serve the proposed dwelling and existing agricultural lands at location of existing agricultural entrance, installation of a new proprietary waste water treatment system together with all associated landscaping, site works and services.
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 181030
27 Jun 2018N/a
construction of a bungalow, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, and all associated ancillary site-works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18772
22 Feb 2017Conditional
Construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, construction of a building consisting 4 stables, 1 tack room, 1 office with W/C and a domestic garage, horse walker, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 17182
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 Betaghstown.
Recorded monuments
- KD010-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
Shown on the latest ed. (1911) of the OS 6-inch map as circular area enclosed by a fosse (est. max. diam. c. 50m) and described in 1955 as having traces of a bank at the NE. Visible on a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVO 79) as a low circular platform enclosed by a fosse. In mixed pasture and tillage and only visible as a slight rise in 1985 (SMR file). 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 Betaghstown.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_2682 (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
- Betaghstown, Clane7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Betaghstown · Baile na mBiatach
- Area
- 2,514,373 m² (251.44 ha, 621.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clane
- Electoral division
- Clane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clane electoral division: 8,927 people in 3,078 households; 72% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaboley, Ballynafagh, Ballynagappagh, Boherhole, Corkeragh, Cott, Kilmurry, Kilmurry
- Placenames
- Betaghstown 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.