Cannonstown
Townland in the civil parish of Feighcullen, barony of Connell, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 85.3 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 424,846 m² (42.48 ha, 104.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cannonstown, from 406,735 m² (40.67 ha, 100.51 acres) to 442,957 m² (44.3 ha, 109.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cannonstown 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
20 Mar 2026Conditional
a change of house type to that permitted under Reg. Ref. 23/762 along with minor amendments to the associated permitted landscaping and site works in the vicinity of the house and relocation of the permitted on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area. The new house type will be predominantly single storey in nature with a small two storey element to facilitate attic storage. It will be smaller in floor area than the permitted house type and the single storey shed will be detached from the house
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660295
19 Mar 2026N/a
The proposed development will consist of a change of house type to that permitted under Reg. Ref. 23/762 along with minor amendments to the associated permitted landscaping and site works in the vicinity of the house and relocation of the permitted on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area. The new house type will be predominantly single storey in nature with a small two storey element to facilitate attic storage. It will be smaller in floor area than the permitted house type and the single storey shed will be detached from the house.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660286
10 Mar 2026N/a
a change of house type to that permitted under Reg. Ref. 23/762 along with minor amendments to the associated permitted landscaping and site works in the vicinity of the house and relocation of the permitted on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area. The new house type will be predominantly single storey in nature with a small two storey element to facilitate attic storage. It will be smaller in floor area than the permitted house type and the single storey shed will be detached from the house
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660263
31 Oct 2024Conditional
for (a) rear 1st floor storey extension as constructed to existing 2 storey house and all associated site and development works
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461143
7 Jul 2023Conditional
construction of a new single storey detached dwelling with adjoining garage, provision of a new vehicular entrance, a new well and a new septic system with new on-site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines and all associated ancillary, landscaping and site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23762
28 Jun 2023N/a
construction of a new single storey detached dwelling with adjoining garage, provision of a new vehicular entrance, a new well and a new septic system with onsite wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines and all associated ancillary, landscaping and site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23722
15 Jun 2023N/a
for construction of a new single storey detached dwelling with adjoining garage, provision of a new vehicular entrance, a new well and a new septic system with new on site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines and all associated ancillary, landscaping and site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23655
23 May 2023N/a
construction of a new single storey detached garage, provision of a new vehicular entrance, a new well and a new septic system with new on site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines and all associated ancillary, landscaping and site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23556
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 Cannonstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cannonstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cannonstown.
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
- About 1 in 5 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 Cannonstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cannonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Cannonstown
- Area
- 852,510 m² (85.25 ha, 210.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Feighcullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connell
- Electoral division
- Feighcullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Feighcullen electoral division: 646 people in 216 households; 89% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blakestown, Carrickanearla, Grangecommon, Grangecommon, Newtown, Punchersgrange, Wheelam
- Placenames
- Cannonstown 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.