# Bryanstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taghadoe, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 994,648 m² (99.46 ha, 245.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,058 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taghadoe, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/taghadoe.md - Barony: Salt North - Electoral division: Straffan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25457 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80241 - Centre: latitude 53.348149, longitude -6.622569 (WGS 84) ## 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1081099: 824,164 m² (82.42 ha, 203.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081099.md - Parcel 1084761: 168,496 m² (16.85 ha, 41.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084761.md - Parcel 3486958: 1,058 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3486958.md - Parcel 1053635: 503 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053635.md - Parcel 1021474: 427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021474.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 28 Mar 2025, Kildare County Council 2560326: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560326/0 - 20 Sept 2023, Kildare County Council 2360228: Refused. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360228/0 - 24 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21921: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21921/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bryanstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bryanstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bryanstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2799.zip (ZIP). - 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/bryanstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bryanstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bryanstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cowanstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/cowanstown.md - Donaghstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donaghstown.md - Kealstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kealstown.md - Roosk: https://everytownland.com/kildare/roosk.md - Smithstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/smithstown.md - Taghadoe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/taghadoe.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/bryanstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/bryanstown