Broadstown
Broadstown is a townland in the civil parish of Graney, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 107.4 ha
- 265 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,772 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Broadstown, from 12 m² to 307,488 m² (30.75 ha, 75.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Broadstown 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
16 Sept 2024Conditional
to retain domestic dormer style garage with games room at first floor level as constructed to the rear / side of existing dwelling house, retention planning permission is sought to retain bay window as constructed to the front of the existing dwelling house, all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460913
16 May 2024Conditional
for a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, secondary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460430
9 May 2024N/a
for to construct a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, secondary waste water treatment system, soil polishing filter, bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460411
6 Nov 2023Conditional
to construct a two storey dwelling, single storey garage, storage shed, new entrance, bored well, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23981
9 Oct 2023N/a
To construct a two storey dwelling, single storey garage, storage shed, new entrance, bored well, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23934
26 Oct 2021Conditional
sought to construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, bored well, new site entrance, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211538
11 Oct 2021Conditional
to alter previously granted Planning Application Ref. No. 16/1004. The alterations include an additional single storey garage and changing previously granted house design from a dormer style dwelling to a two storey dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211459
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 Broadstown.
Recorded monuments
- KD040-050 Enclosure
Description
Visible on GSI aerial photos. S 56, 55 as a possible circular enclosure, but not recorded on the OS 6-inch maps. Date of upload: 8 September 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Broadstown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Broadstown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Broadstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Broadstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Broadstown
- Area
- 1,073,966 m² (107.4 ha, 265.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Graney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division
- Graney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 803 people lived in 274 households in the Graney electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyraggan, Carrigeen North, Carrigeen South, Graney East, Knockroe, Maplestown (Co. Carlow), Ricketstown (Co. Carlow), Tankardstown
- Placenames
- Broadstown 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.