Borough

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Borough, from 1,978 m² to 351,082 m² (35.11 ha, 86.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Borough 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.

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  for (1) Permission to construct a new double underground slatted slurry storage tank located externally to rear of existing farm building and completed with associated siteworks, (2) permission to construct a new extension to existing calf shed, completed with associated siteworks, and (3) permission to construct a new extension to the existing straw storage farm building completed with associated siteworks

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560461

• 19 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a new farm building for the housing of livestock including slatted areas over underground slurry storage tanks, completed with associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23407

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 Borough.

Recorded monuments

• KD032-001 Mound
  Description

  In level pasture overlooking a small stream immediately to the N. A low, but steep-sided, circular mound (diam. 8m; H. 1.7m) is heavily poached by livestock. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Borough, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2574 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Borough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Borough

Area

701,701 m² (70.17 ha, 173.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrush, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

698 people lived in 228 households in the Kilrush electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hillfarm, Millfarm, Rock, Tippeenan Lower, Tippeenan Upper, Whitehouse

Placenames

Borough 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.