Bray Lower

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bray Lower, from 749 m² to 350,357 m² (35.04 ha, 86.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Bray Lower 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.

• 24 Nov 2023Conditional

  the provision of a one-bedroomed single storey dwelling as an extension to the rear of an existing single storey crèche and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360409

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  (a) A new advertising sign fixed to existing creche. (b) The omission of condition 3(c) of planning permission register reference 01/1634 which requires the use of the building to revert to residential in the event of the sale of the building. Retention permission is required for: (a) Changing the primary use of the building from residential to commercial use. (b) Amendment to condition 14 of planning permission register reference 01/1634, to change the maximum permissible number of children from 18 to 27,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201070

• 2 May 2019Conditional

  extension to side of existing pre-school building and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19484

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 Bray Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-034 Moated site
  Description

  In level tillage. Visible on two aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 14 (1968)) and CUCAP BDO 45 (1970)) as the cropmark of a narrow fosse enclosing a rectangular area (est. c. 50m N-S; c. 40m W-E), possibly a moated site. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD035-035----) c. 40m to the ESE is also visible on the aerial photographs. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2013

• KD035-035 Enclosure
  Description

  In level tillage. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDO 45 (1970)) as the cropmark of a broad fosse enclosing a rectangular area (est. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m W-E), possibly a moated site. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD035-034----) c. 40m to the WNW is also visible on the aerial photograph. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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_2452 (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 Bray Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Bray Lower · Bré Íochtarach

Area

1,317,433 m² (131.74 ha, 325.54 acres)

Civil parish

St. Michael's, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Athy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardree, Ballycullane, Bray Upper, Foxhill, Heath, Leinsterlodge, Nicholastown

Placenames

Bray Lower 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.