Bigbog

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bigbog, from 3,843 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres) to 244,691 m² (24.47 ha, 60.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bigbog 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.

• 19 Jun 2024Refused

  for temporary planning permission for 2 years for hard standing area for storage of cars and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460549

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bigbog.

Recorded monuments

• KD040-022 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown as an enclosure on the 1837 OS 6-inch map (max diam. c. 40m). No visible surface traces. Aerial photograph (GB89.AG.) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-055 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AG.05) shows cropmark of a sub-circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bigbog.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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_2608 (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.

No address of the register names Bigbog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Bigbog

Area

927,500 m² (92.75 ha, 229.19 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Castledermot, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castledermot electoral division: 1,853 people in 664 households; 70% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvannan, Coltstown, Coltstown, Davidstown Lower, Knocknacree, Mullarney, Townparks

Placenames

Bigbog 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.