Burtown Big

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burtown Big, from 4 m² to 932,146 m² (93.21 ha, 230.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Burtown Big 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.

• 6 Mar 2026N/a

  Renewable Energy Directive (REDIII) Development. Application for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development (renewable energy development) with a total site area of 137.7 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, inverters, internal access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, electrical cabling and ducting, creation of a new access off the L8017, a temporary construction compound, landscaping and all ancillary infrastructure and associated works. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660249

• 20 Apr 2021Conditional

  Retention of a single storey extension to the side of existing single storey dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21519

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  to construct a bungalow dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well, new splayed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21123

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 Burtown Big.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-030 Church
  Description

  At the N end of a graveyard (KD035-030001-). A rectangular structure (int. 7.7m E-W; 3.5m N-S; ext. 14.35m E-W; 9.3m N-S) is defined by grassed-over collapsed walls, with inner wall facing stones visible intermittently along the S. The interior is disturbed by modern burials. An earthfast jambstone in the graveyard presumably came from the church. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 December 2013

• KD035-030001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope in tillage. A trapezoidal area (L 40m NW-SE; Wth at wider NW end c. 26m; Wth at narrower SE end c. 13m) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall and is accessed by either of two stiles at the SE end. Marked burials are concentrated towards the N end and the earliest legible grave markers date to the 19th-century. The graveyard also contains a ruined church (KD035-030----) and a cross-slab (KD035-030002-). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 December 2013

• KD035-030002 Cross-slab
  Description

  In a graveyard (KD035-030001-). An earthfast limestone slab re-used as a later gravemarker (H 0.4m; Wth 0.5m T 6-10cms) has a slightly raised circular ‘boss’ (diam. 0.24m) on its E face on which is inscribed a fine equal-armed cross with expanded triangular terminals. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 December 2013

• KD035-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage. Shown on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map as an oval area (est. max. c. 40m NNW-SE; c. 30m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a bank. While no visible surface trace survives, the faint cropmark of a fosse defining a curvilinear enclosure is visible on a 1989 aerial photograph (GB89.AI.07). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 December 2013

• KD035-041 Mound
  Description

  In level tillage. Fitzgerald (1906-8, 293) was, ‘… sorry to report the partial levelling and ploughing over of a small Moat, or Pagan burial-mound, which stood in the same field as the old churchyard [KD035-030001-] at Birtown … .’ No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 December 2013

• KD035-055 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.07) shows the cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (with an entrance facing SE) defined by fosse and integrated within a surrounding field system (KD035-055001-). Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-055001 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.07) shows the cropmarks of curvilinear fosses extending from an enclosure (KD035-055----) and forming an associated field system. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-056 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.09) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse and integrated within an associated field system (KD035-056001-). Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-056001 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.09) shows the cropmarks of fosses defining a co-axial field system, with an integrated curvilinear enclosure (KD035-056----). Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-070 Burial
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KD035-087 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GD.01) shows cropmark of an irregular curvilinear, kidney-shaped enclosure defined by a fosse. Linear boundaries extending from the enclosure suggest an associated field system. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-088 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GD.01) shows cropmark of a small circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-089 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.34) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure integrated within a series of broadly parallel linear fosses delineating a co-axial field system. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-090 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.34) shows cropmarks of a series of broadly parallel linear fosses delineating a co-axial field system; a curvilinear enclosure is integrated within the field system. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-091 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.33) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-092 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.33) shows cropmarks of a series of linear fosses delineating a rectilinear field system. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-093 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.33) shows cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Burtown, farm house, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone house, c.1740, originally with round-headed door opening to centre. Renovated and extended, c.1890, comprising single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay to west with single-bay single-storey canted bay window to ground floor, three-bay two-storey side elevation to west and two-bay two-storey return to rear to north having two-bay two-storey projecting block to rear elevation to north. Renovated, c.1940, with two-bay single-storey porch added to return to rear to north. Hipped and gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to window openings to first floor to west in style of half-dormer attic). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Decorative timber bargeboards to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to roof to open porch to entrance inserted, c.1890, having gablet. Rubble stone walls to original block. Brick dressings. Dressed stone quoins to corners. Roughcast walls to remainder. Unpainted. Rendered stringcourse to first floor. Square-headed window openings (remodelled, c.1890, to original portion; segmental-headed to block to west including canted bay window). Stone sills. Cut-stone and red brick dressings to original block. 1/1 timber sash windows, c.1890 (retaining one original 6/6 timber sash window to return). 2/2 timber sash windows to return. Cut-stone voussoirs to original round-headed door opening. Square-headed door opening inserted, c.1890. Timber panelled door. Side lights and overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Detached multiple-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with attic, c.1890, to north-east on an L-shaped plan. Gable-ended roof on an L-shaped plan with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Square rooflights. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Brick dressings. Segmental-headed window openings. Stone sills. Yellow brick dressings. Fittings not discerned. Square-headed door opening. Yellow brick dressings. Timber panelled door. Detached multiple-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1890, to north-west on a U-shaped plan about a courtyard. Hipped roof on a U-shaped plan with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Cut-stone surrounds. Timber fittings. Square-headed door openings (with one segmental-headed). Cut-stone surround (with one having brick surrounds). Timber fittings. Square-headed integral carriageways. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Burtown Big.

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 Burtown Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Burtown Big

Area

3,141,425 m² (314.14 ha, 776.26 acres)

Civil parish

Moone, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Burtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burtown electoral division: 421 people in 157 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardscull, Ballindrum, Ballycullane, Burtown Little, Inch, Irishtown, Nicholastown

Placenames

Burtown Big 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.