Bryanstown
Bryanstown is a townland in the civil parish of Taghadoe, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 99.5 ha
- 246 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 1,058 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bryanstown, from 427 m² to 824,164 m² (82.42 ha, 203.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Bryanstown 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
28 Mar 2025Refused
for the construction of a solar PV development and an ‘under the fence’ transformer compound on a ca. 180ha site consisting of: I. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site; II. 39 No. inverter units (ca. 2.9m (h) x ca. 6.1m (l) and 2.4(w)); III. 1 No. control room structure (5m (h) x 15.3m (l) and 3.7m (w)); IV. 1 No. transformer unit (ca. 6m x ca. 4m) and associated bund; V. Security fencing around the ‘under the fence’ transformer compound (2.65m high); VI. Electrical and communications cabling; VII. Pole-mounted security cameras; VIII. Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; IX. Upgrade of 3 No. existing Site entrances; X. Development of 2 No. new Site entrances; XI. 3 No. temporary construction compounds; XII. Internal access tracks; and, XIII All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560326
20 Sept 2023Refused
for (A) permission for 42 no. serviced camp sites, (B) erection of clubhouse building with indoor activity rooms, shop, coffee dock, cleaners store, reception area and staff toilet, (C) erection of 2 no. toilet blocks consisting of Gents and Ladies toilets and family changing areas with wash up area, (D) the installation of a septic tank, integrated constructed wetlands and percolation area (E) Permission is sought for 38 no. car parking spaces with 4 no. E car charging points, 20 covered cycle parking spaces and (F) access to the proposed site is off the existing private roadway granted planning permission under file ref no: 18/403 and all associated site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of Revised design of the reception building and toilet blocks.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360228
24 Jun 2021N/a
(A) permission for 42 no. service camp sites, (B) erection of clubhouse building with indoor activity rooms, shop, coffee dock, cleaners store, reception area and staff toilet, (C) erection of 2 no. toilet blocks consisting of Gents and Ladies toilets and family changing areas with wash up area, (D) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with Tertiary treatment in a Sand polishing filter percolation area, (E) Permission is also sough for 38 no. car parking spaces with 4 no. E car charging points, 20 covered cycle parking spaces and (F) Permission to extend the existing distributor road consisting of new vehicular access road and all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21921
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 Bryanstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bryanstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bryanstown.
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 Bryanstown, about 1 in 20 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_2799 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bryanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Bryanstown
- Area
- 994,648 m² (99.46 ha, 245.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghadoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt North
- Electoral division
- Straffan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,513 people lived in 758 households in the Straffan electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cowanstown, Donaghstown, Kealstown, Roosk, Smithstown, Taghadoe
- Placenames
- Bryanstown 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.