Calverstown

250 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Calverstown, from 141 m² to 365,502 m² (36.55 ha, 90.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Calverstown 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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  domestic sheds: a. Domestic Shed (18.4m2), b.Play-house/Store (4.14m2), Note: Other existing exempted structures amount to 22.2m2. The application for retention has been prepared as the overall quantity of ancillary buildings to this dwelling exceeds the exempted development threshold of 25m2

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660210

• 25 Feb 2026Refused

  changes to site layout granted under Planning Ref: 24/61082 including the realignment of the pedestrian link, the construction of a hard surfaced area and all associated site works and services

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660188

• 20 Feb 2026N/a

  for changes to site layout granted under Planning Ref: 24/61082 including all associated site works and services

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660166

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  For the refurbishment of the existing two storey building involving the construction of 4no. apartments at first and second floor levels over the existing ground floor licenced premises comprising 3no. 2 bedroom duplex apartments and 1no. 3 bedroom duplex apartment. This is an amendment to the previously granted planning permission under reg. ref. 24/60910 and involves an extension to the side (east) of the existing footprint at first floor and second floor levels, the removal of the existing hipped roof and its replacement with a new hipped roof with new roof windows to facilitate the proposed new second floor level layout to the same ridge height as previously granted, new external stairs access from the existing carparking area to 2no. units and amendment to the existing internal stairs layout to access the remaining 2no. units. Permission is also sought for the construction of a new two storey extension over the existing store at ground floor level to create additional storage space at first floor level involving amendments to the east and north elevations along with landscaping and all other ancillary site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561278

• 20 Aug 2025Refused

  for (a) new single storey dwelling, (b) upgrading of existing vehicle entrance, (c) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560947

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  for the proposed new dwelling on vacant site no 39, as part of the previously granted development (Planning reference 24/6012) of houses, associated roads and site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560457

• 27 Mar 2025Refused

  For the construction of 4no. apartments at first and second floor levels over the existing ground floor licenced premises comprising 3no. 2 bedroom duplex apartments and 1no. 3 bedroom duplex apartment. This is an amendment to the previously granted planning permission under reg. ref. 24/60910 and involves an extension to the side of the existing footprint at first floor and second floor levels, the removal of the existing hipped roof and its replacement with a new roof with new roof windows to facilitate the proposed new second floor level layout to the same ridge level as previously granted, new external stairs access from the existing carparking area to 2no. units and amendment to the existing internal stairs layout to access the remaining 2no. units. Permission is also sought for the construction of a new two storey extension over the existing store at ground floor level to create additional storage space at first floor level involving amendments to the east and north elevations along with all other ancillary site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560321

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  for alterations and refurbishment of an existing, single-storey, vernacular dwelling including the demolition of an existing previous extension, a new single-storey extension to the rear and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461203

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the construction of 4 no. 4-bed semi-detached dwellings and 2 no. 3-bed semi-detached dwellings in place of 3 no. 5 bed detached dwellings previously granted under planning reference 21-478 including all ancillary internal access roads, infrastructure, and all associated site and development works and services

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461082

• 17 Oct 2024N/a

  for the construction of 4 no. 4-bed semi-detached dwellings in place of 3 no. 5 bed detached dwellings previously granted under planning reference 21-478 including all ancillary internal access roads, infrastructure, and all associated site and development works and services

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 2461064

• 25 Sept 2024Refused

  for (a) new single storey dwelling, (b) upgrading of existing vehicle entrance, (c) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460948

• 23 Sept 2024N/a

  for (a) new single storey dwelling, (b) upgrading of existing vehicle entrance, (c) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460941

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  for renovations and alterations to existing public house and residence. The works will consist of (a) removal of existing hip roofs and construction of new roof to cover all existing hip roofs (b) extension of two bedrooms at 1st floor level (c) new entrance to existing bar area (d) new canopy over existing entrance to lounge, (e) extension of existing porch to residential area (f) covered walk-way between existing public house and adjoining building (g) alteration and replacement of all windows, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460910

• 2 Jul 2024N/a

  Development will consist of extension, alterations licence premises and living accommodation.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24214

• 10 Apr 2024Conditional

  dwelling as built which comprises of minor changes/alterations from that granted under planning permission Ref. 191112. These changes relate mainly to (a) construction of a single storey side extension, (b) change of dormer window roof style along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460309

• 15 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the retention and completion of eleven previously permitted and partly constructed houses and associated roads and site works

  Retention, 10 homes · Kildare County Council, 2460121

• 9 Feb 2024N/a

  for the retention and completion of eleven previously permitted and partly constructed houses and associated roads and site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460095

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of a domestic garage/store to the rear of my existing dwelling, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360519

• 15 Dec 2023N/a

  of 23/518 which consists of permission for proposed alterations to previously approved planning ref. numbers 01/1590, 05/2691, 08/1193, 12/168, 13/792, 17/926, 19/404, 21/1372 and 21/1373. The proposed alterations include: a) sunroom additions to the rear of houses 30, 32, 34 and 36, b) minor elevation changes to houses 21-36, house 39, c) permitted plan mirrored to houses 30-36 and house 39, and revised boundary treatments and RETENTION of 1) changes to house 37and 38 including permitted plan mirrored and minor elevation changes and 2) minor elevational changes to houses 11 - 20 and houses 40 - 42

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 231042

• 15 Dec 2023N/a

  of 23/518 which consists of permission for proposed alterations to previously approved planning ref. numbers 01/1590, 05/2691, 08/1193, 12/168, 13/792, 17/926, 19/404, 21/1372 and 21/1373. The proposed alterations include: a) sunroom additions to the rear of houses 30, 32, 34 and 36, b) minor elevation changes to houses 21-36, house 39, c) permitted plan mirrored to houses 30-36 and house 39, and revised boundary treatments and RETENTION of 1) changes to house 37and 38 including permitted plan mirrored and minor elevation changes and 2) minor elevational changes to houses 11 - 20 and houses 40 - 42

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 231041

• 17 Aug 2023Conditional

  for a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dormer style dwelling (total floor area to be retained = 22sqm) together with all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23849

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  part demolition of existing barn and conversion/refurbishment of barn into dwelling, part single-storey, part two-storey with three-bedrooms; recessed residential entrance, new septic tank and percolation area; and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23653

• 16 May 2023Conditional

  permission for proposed alterations to previously approved planning ref. numbers 01/1590, 05/2691, 08/1193, 12/168, 13/792, 17/926, 19/404, 21/1372 and 21/1373. The proposed alterations include: a) sunroom additions to the rear of houses 30, 32, 34 and 36, b) minor elevation changes to houses 21-36, house 39, c) permitted plan mirrored to houses 30-36 and house 39, and revised boundary treatments and RETENTION of 1) changes to house 37and 38 including permitted plan mirrored and minor elevation changes and 2) minor elevational changes to houses 11 - 20 and houses 40 - 42

  Retention, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 23518

• 9 May 2023N/a

  and proposed alteration for previously approved planning ref. numbers 01/1590, 05/2691, 08/1193, 12/168, 13/792, 17/926, 19/404, 21/1372, and 21/1373. The revisions consist of 1) retention of changes to houses 37 and 38 including permitted plan mirrored and minor elevation changes. 2) retention of minor elevational changes to houses 11-20 and houses 40-42. 3) proposed alterations - 1) sunroom additions to the rear of houses 30, 32, 34 and 36 and b) minor elevation changes to houses 21-36, house 39 and c) permitted plan mirrored to houses 30-36 and house 39, and 4) revised boundary treatments all

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23490

• 8 May 2023Conditional

  the construction of a detached domestic garage at the rear of our dwelling house

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23479

The 25 most recent of 44 applications.

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 Calverstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD032-053 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on a 2005 OSi Orthophoto (pers. comm. Dr. Charles Mount, 29-05-2008). Visible as the soil mark of a roughly circular area (est. diam. c. 20m) together with the cropmark of an enclosing fosse (est. ext. diam. c. 60m), with faint traces of a second, outer fosse NE-ESE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2013

• KD032-078 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of three small circular-shaped enclosure or barrows (approx. diam. 16m) aligned E-W visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• KD032-079 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of three small circular-shaped enclosures or barrows (approx. diam. 12m) aligned E-W visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• KD032-080 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of three small circular-shaped enclosures or barrows (approx. diam. 10m) aligned E-W visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

Architectural heritage

• Calverstown Cottage, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Gothic-style house with half-dormer attic, c.1910, comprising two-bay single-storey range with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to right and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay with half-dormer attic to left. Renovated and extended, c.1990, comprising single-bay single-storey lean-to return to rear to west. Gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to porch; lean-to to return) behind parapet walls to gables. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Cut-stone coping to gables. Square rooflights, c.1990. Timber eaves. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1990. Roughcast walls. Rendered dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Rendered block-and-start surrounds. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1990. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns to front. Rubble stone boundary wall to boundary.

• Grove Villa, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, c.1880, comprising three-bay single-storey range with cut-stone open loggia along front, single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay to left and single-bay single-storey canted bay window to side elevation to south. Extended, c.1900, comprising two-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to east with single-bay two-storey canted bay window to south. Gable-ended roof with slate (lean-to to loggia; gabled to advanced end bay and to dormer attic windows; half-octagonal to canted bay window). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks (red brick to return to east). Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to return to east. Materials not visible behind moulded cornice. Rendered walls. Ruled-and-lined. Unpainted. Rendered quoined strips to corners. Cut-stone open loggia along front (west) elevation. Rendered stringcourse to first floor to return to east. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Rendered block-and-start surrounds. Moulded rendered hood mouldings. 2/2 bipartite timber sash windows to ground floor. Timber casement windows to dormer attic. Pointed-arch open loggia along front (west) elevation. Shallow segmental-headed openings to return to east. Rendered sills. 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Glazed timber panelled door. Overlight. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site. Rubble stone boundary wall to front. Detached fifteen-bay single- and two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1880, to north on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard comprising eight-bay single-storey range with series of segmental-headed integral carriageways, single-bay single-storey advanced end bay with half-dormer attic to west and six-bay double-height range at right angles to south-east. Gable-ended roofs with slate (behind parapet walls to end bay to west). Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Red brick dressings. Square-headed window openings. No sills. Brick dressings. Fittings not visible. Segmental-headed integral carriageways. Brick dressings. Fittings not visible.

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 high, 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 Calverstown.

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.

• Calverstown, Kilcullen8 sales

Name

Calverstown

Area

3,174,399 m² (317.44 ha, 784.41 acres)

Civil parish

Davidstown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Ballyshannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyshannon electoral division: 1,813 people in 577 households; 80% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calverstown Demesne, Calverstown Little, Carrighill Lower, Carrighill Upper, Dalkinstown, Davidstown, Halverstown, Kilgowan, Moortown, Moortowncastle

Placenames

Calverstown 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.