Carn
Townland in the civil parish of Carn, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 111.9 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 86
- registered freehold, median 853 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn, from 28 m² to 255,235 m² (25.52 ha, 63.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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
- R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 65 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jun 2026Refused
Extension of Duration: 6no. dwelling houses as follows: 3no. 3 bedroom 2 storey terrace houses, Block A on sites 1-3 inclusive and 3no. 2 storey 3 bedroom terrace houses, Block B on sites 4-6 inclusive. Connection to mains sewer, access roads, car parking and all associated site development works
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 2675
30 Jun 2025Refused
for installation of new Sepcon BAF waste water treatment system, Installation of new polishing filter and infiltration bed, Decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system. All ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 25118
11 May 2020Conditional
6no. dwelling houses as follows: 3no. 3 bedroom 2 storey terrace houses, Block A on sites 1-3 inclusive and 3no. 2 storey 3 bedroom terrace houses, Block B on sites 4-6 inclusive. Connection to mains sewer, access roads, car parking and all associated site development works
Permission, 6 homes · Kildare County Council, 20475
14 Apr 2020N/a
6no. dwelling houses as follows: 3no. 3 bedroom 2 storey terrace houses, Block A on sites 1-3 inclusive and 3no. 2 storey 3 bedroom terrace houses, Block B on sites 4-6 inclusive. Connection to mains sewer, access roads, car parking and all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20377
7 Nov 2018Conditional
2 No. two storey dwelling houses, domestic stores, connection to mains sewer, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 181343
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 Carn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carn.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1905-6, with lancet-arch openings, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to north-east and single-bay double-height lower apse to north-west gable end on a polygonal plan having two-bay single-storey sacristy projection to south-west. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to porch; polygonal to apse; gable-ended to sacristy projection). Crested clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stack to sacristy projection. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves band. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls. Buttressed piers to south-east gable end with pinnacles. Cut-stone dressings including quoins and buttresses to north-east and to south-west. Lancet-arch window openings. Cut-stone chamfered sills and block-and-start surrounds (with hood moulding over to south-east). Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows (2/2 timber sash windows to sacristy projection). Rose window to gable to south east in cut-stone surround having polished red stone colonettes. Cut-stone sill course. Pointed-arch hood moulding over. Trefoil-headed door opening to south-east. Pointed-arch hood moulding over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch door opening to porch. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Hood moulding over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior open into roof. Glazed timber panelled internal porch to south-east. Polychromatic fired clay tiled floor. Timber pews. Carved timber confessionals. Timber panelled gallery to first floor to south-east. Exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels with tongue-and-groove timber panels. Lancet-arch chancel arch on clustered colonettes. Replacement altar fittings, c.1980. Exposed timber roof construction over. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.
- Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, c.1880, retaining early fenestration with segmental-headed door opening to centre, three-bay two-storey return to rear to north-west having single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay and three-bay two-storey flat-roofed lower parallel return to rear to north-west. Reroofed, c.1970. Hipped roof (gable-ended to return; lean-to to projecting bay). Replacement fibre-cement slate, c.1970. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Flat-roof to parallel return. Replacement bitumen felt, c.1970. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 6/6 timber sash windows. 2/2 timber sash windows to parallel return. Segmental-headed door opening. Timber pilaster doorcase with consoles and entablature. Timber panelled door. Sidelights. Decorative fanlight. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds.Gateway, c.1880, to east comprising rendered piers with gabled capping having cast-iron gates.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2572 (ZIP).
- 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 Carn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Carn
- Area
- 1,119,417 m² (111.94 ha, 276.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Ballysax West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballysax West electoral division: 1,233 people in 415 households; 80% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohergoy Upper, Brownstown Upper, Churchland East, Churchland South, Churchland West, Common North, Common South, Newtown, Sheshoon, Suncroft
- Placenames
- Carn 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.