Brownstown Great

115 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownstown Great, from 4 m² to 419,228 m² (41.92 ha, 103.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Brownstown Great 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.

• 13 Jul 2026N/a

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new recessed entrance, detached domestic garage/shed and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660788

• 13 Jul 2026Refused

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new recessed entrance, detached domestic garage/shed and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660792

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  extension to my house comprising a single storey granny flat extension to the rear and single storey extension to side containing a living area, utility room, and W.C., and all associated site works, at Brownstown Great, Curragh, Co. Kildare, R56 A971. This application comprises minor modifications to a previously granted application (file ref 18948)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660393

• 18 Feb 2026N/a

  an extension to my house comprising a single storey granny flat extension to the rear and single storey extension to side containing a living area, utility room, and W.C., and all associated site works, application comprises minor modifications to a previously granted application (file ref 18948)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660154

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  (a) new single storey domestic extension to side / rear of existing dwelling house, (b) minor modifications to existing window and door arrangement along front / side elevation, (c) internal modifications and complete energy upgrade works to existing dwelling, (d) landscaping, connection to all existing site services and all associated development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561461

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  (a) new single storey domestic extension to side / rear of existing dwelling house, (b) minor modifications to existing window and door arrangement along front / side elevation, (c) internal modifications and complete energy upgrade works to existing dwelling, (d) landscaping, connection to all existing site services and all associated development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561452

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  the construction of 3 no. three bedroom detached dormer dwellings, 6 no. communal car parking spaces, vehicular access via a proposed entrance opening in the existing front boundary stone wall, foul water to existing foul sewer, surface water to soakaways, landscape screening and all associated site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 2360052

• 18 Oct 2022Conditional

  1. Demolition of selected existing doors and windows to fit new apartment layouts. 2. Redesign the layouts of Apartments 01, 02, 05, 06 and 07. 3. New communal amenity space on first floor (162.75sqm) 4. Elevation changes to the existing building with new external render replacing existing shopfront and partial render finish to the existing building; minor roof amendments to accommodate rooflight; Roof cut out to be made in the existing roof to provide light & ventilation to Apartment 05. 5. All associated and ancillary, ground and site work

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221236

• 21 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey part storey and a half type dwelling, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new recessed entrance, detached domestic garage/shed and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22312

• 15 Mar 2022N/a

  sought to extend my house consisting of Granny flat extension to rear and single storey extension to side containing utility room, toilet, living room extension

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22288

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  the change of use of the existing two storey and part single storey commercial building to a two storey and part single storey residential building consisting of 12 no. apartments as follows 4no. one-bed ground floor apartments; 4no. one-bed first floor apartments; 3no.two-bed ground floor apartments and 1no. two-bed first floor apartment together with the provision of all associated & ancillary site works, private and public open space, boundary treatments and landscaping works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a reduction in the number of apartments from 12 no. to 10 no. units by reducing the number of ground floor apartments from seven dwellings to five dwellings by combining the previously proposed apartments no.'s 4&6 (both single bed units) into a 3-bed apartment and combining apartments no.'s 5&7 (both single bed units) into a 2-bed apartment along with a revised site layout indicating all associated & ancillary siteworks, private and public open space, boundary treatments and landscaping works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21529

• 25 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the following: (a) Existing bungalow dwelling house as constructed; (b) Existing entrance gates/pillars and revised front site boundary and all associated development works. Permission for the development was previously granted under Planning Reference No. 05/681,

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201425

• 16 Nov 2020N/a

  retention permission for the following: (a) existing bungalow dwelling house as constructed, (b) existing entrance gates / pillars and revised front site boundary and all associated development works. Permission for the development was previously granted under Planning Reference No. 05/861,

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201379

• 18 Dec 2018N/a

  alterations to plans and elevations previously granted under planning ref. no. 17/504 including: (1) first floor extension over ground floor extension (utility / sunroom / kitchen), (2) ground floor extension extended (garage and bedroom) and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181535

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  (a) proposed new storey and a half dwelling, (b) new vehicle entrance, (c) connection to existing public sewer along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181387

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  to extend house consisting of Granny flat extension to rear and single storey extension to side containing kitchen/living room extension and sunroom

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18948

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  alterations to existing dwelling including conversion of existing garage, construction of a single storey extension to side of dwelling, addition of link between existing dwelling and converted garage / proposed new extension, construction of new domestic garage to side of proposed extension, single storey extension to rear of dwelling and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17504

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 Brownstown Great.

Recorded monuments

• KD028-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, but shown as an enclosed D-shaped area (diam. c. 30m NW-SE) with a straight NNE-SSW side (L c. 40m) on the current ed. (1939-40) of the map. Visible as tree-covered on a 2010 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 February 2013

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's National School, school, 1925–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height former national school, c.1935, on a H-shaped plan comprising single-bay double-height recessed entrance bay to centre with two-bay double-height gabled projecting flanking end bays. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1970, to accommodate residential use. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roofs on a H-shaped plan with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Granite coping to gables. Overhanging timber eaves and bargeboards on corbelled eaves band. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Replacement nap rendered walls, c.1970, to front elevation to south-west. Profiled sections between openings. Original roughcast walls to remainder. Painted. Cut-stone plaque. Square-headed window openings. Granite sills. Replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1970. Square-headed door opening. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1970. Sidelights and overlights. Set back from road in own grounds.Cast-concrete boundary wall to circumference of site.

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1900, comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with fluted spout having acanthus leaf motif, fluted ogee-domed cap and 'cow-tail' handle with pierced tear-drop finial. Now disused. Set at side of road on a mass concrete base.

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_2602 (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 Brownstown Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Brownstown Great · Baile an Bhrúnaigh Mór

Area

1,522,124 m² (152.21 ha, 376.13 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysax, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Ballysax East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysax East electoral division: 2,090 people in 706 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfair, Ballysax Great, Brownstown Little, Brownstown Lower, Brownstown Upper, Curragh

Placenames

Brownstown Great 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.