# Brannockstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Brannockstown, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile na mBreatnach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,013,715 m² (101.37 ha, 250.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,053 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Brannockstown, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/brannockstown.md - Barony: Naas South - Electoral division: Carnalway, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,043 people lived in 710 households in the Carnalway electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24842 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80223 - Centre: latitude 53.125639, longitude -6.689671 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brannockstown, from 193 m² to 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5083617: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083617.md - Parcel 1021704: 1,058 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021704.md - Parcel 1019120: 1,048 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1019120.md - Parcel 1018532: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018532.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Brannockstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 26 May 2023, Kildare County Council 23567: Conditional. Permission. 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 246 hectares in the townlands of Brannockstown, Brownstown, Carnalway, Coghlanstown West, Corbally, Delamain, Dunnstown, Gaganstown, Greenhills, Harristown, Hillsborough, Moorhill and Rochestown in County Kildare. The solar farm will consist of solar photovoltaic panels with a surface area of 1,130,000m2 on ground mounted frames, 40 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 4 no. single storey spare parts containers, 19 no. Ring Main Units, 9 no. weather stations underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L6063, L2032, L6071, R448, L6072, R412, L6074, L6047 and R413 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 5 no. stream and drain deck crossings, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via entrances from the R412, R413, L6044, L6047 and L6063. The solar farm will have a maximum export capacity of circa 210 megawatts. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. Part of the proposed development is situated within the demesne land of Harristown House which contains Protected Structures, but no works are proposed to these Protected Structures but no works are proposed to these Protected Structures. Revised by significant Further Information consisting of revised site layout plans to reduce panelled areas in Parcels 1 and 2, relocation of meteorological mast in Parcel 1 and all associated landscaping and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23567/0 - 28 Apr 2020, Kildare County Council 20430: N/a. Permission. new agricultural entrance to access land and all associated site development works. The site is within the curtilage of a protected structure B29-15 Harristown House. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20430/0 - 20 Apr 2020, Kildare County Council 20404: N/a. Permission. New Agricultural Entrance to access land and all associated site development works. The site is within the curtilage of a protected structure B29-15 Harristown House. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20404/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD029-003: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD029-003----. 'In 1192, Inchierbrislane (Gilltown KD029-003----) and Brannockstown were granted with Yago (Gaganstown (KD029-013----) to St Patrick's Dublin (JKAS 1912-4, 336). Dedication to St Sylvester, companion of Palladius in Donard, may suggest early date founding (IHS 1941, - 39-40). Date of upload: 6 September 2016 - KD029-003001: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD029-003001-. Contains a church (KD029-003----) and a medieval font (KD029-003002-). Date of upload: 6 September 2016 - KD029-003002: Font, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD029-003002-. A rectangular granite font with central perforation and two cover depressions lies at W end of church (KD029-003----), probably of 13th/14th century date. Date of upload: 6 September 2016 - KD029-063: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD029-063----. Visible on Bing aerial imagery in level tillage: a small circular area (diam. c. 7m) defined by the cropmark of a fosse. See attached image: KD029-063----_01 Snip of Apple Maps aerial imagery. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère. Date of upload: 1 August 2023 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Harristown House, gate lodge, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 11821006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11821006. Detached two-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1880, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay to right having single-bay single-storey canted bay window to ground floor, canted entrance bay to corner formed by projection and single-bay single-storey return to rear to north-west having single-bay single-storey lower projecting bay to south-west. Now in private residential use. Gable-ended roofs on a T-shaped plan with slate (lean-to over entrance bay; gabled to lower projecting bay). Courses of scalloped slate. Decorative crested ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stacks with red brick dressings. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves course. Rubble stone walls. Cut-granite quoins to corners. Red brick stringcourses. Cut-granite blind trefoil panels to gables. Square-headed openings (including canted bay window). Cut-granite sills, surrounds and lintels. Timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening behind open timber porch. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in grounds originally part of Harristown House estate adjacent to former avenue. Landscaped grounds to site. Gateway, c.1880, to south-east comprising four cut-granite profiled piers with raised armorial plaques, pyramidal capping with saw-tooth detailing, decorative cast-iron double gates, flanking pedestrian gates and rubble stone curved flanking walls with cut-granite stringcourse incorporating quatrefoil motifs and cut-granite coping having iron protective finials. Rubble stone boundary wall to remainder of site. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: the EPA radon map did not answer. - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brannockstown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brannockstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brannockstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brannockstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Brannockstown, Naas: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/kildare/brannockstown-naas.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carnalway: https://everytownland.com/kildare/carnalway.md - Cramersvalley: https://everytownland.com/kildare/cramersvalley.md - Grangemore: https://everytownland.com/kildare/grangemore.md - Harristown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/harristown.md - Moorhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moorhill.md - Mullaghboy: https://everytownland.com/kildare/mullaghboy.md - Rochestown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rochestown.md - Sallymount Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/sallymount-demesne.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brannockstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/brannockstown