# Carn, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Carn, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,119,417 m² (111.94 ha, 276.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 853 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential / Infill, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Carn, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/carn.md - Barony: Offaly East - Electoral division: Ballysax West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,233 people lived in 415 households in the Ballysax West electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25667 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80264 - Centre: latitude 53.114434, longitude -6.86057 (WGS 84) ## 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); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1018235: 255,235 m² (25.52 ha, 63.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018235.md - Parcel 1018628: 205,184 m² (20.52 ha, 50.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018628.md - Parcel 1034774: 117,726 m² (11.77 ha, 29.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034774.md - Parcel 1072381: 108,893 m² (10.89 ha, 26.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072381.md - Parcel 1033098: 79,898 m² (7.99 ha, 19.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1033098.md - Parcel 6001694: 76,127 m² (7.61 ha, 18.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001694.md - Parcel 5493610: 64,742 m² (6.47 ha, 16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5493610.md - Parcel 5493609: 40,461 m² (4.05 ha, 10 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5493609.md - Parcel 1069635: 36,259 m² (3.63 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1069635.md - Parcel 5254394: 16,586 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5254394.md - Parcel 1078765: 14,003 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078765.md - Parcel 1048079: 9,021 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1048079.md - Parcel 1021603: 7,393 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021603.md - Parcel 1017036: 6,898 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1017036.md - Parcel 1038815: 3,737 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038815.md - Parcel 1049111: 3,650 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1049111.md - Parcel 1031558: 2,665 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031558.md - Parcel 1036872: 2,658 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036872.md - Parcel 1084594: 2,369 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084594.md - Parcel 1077418: 2,297 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1077418.md - Parcel 1036205: 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036205.md - Parcel 2944648: 1,552 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2944648.md - Parcel 1045754: 1,549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045754.md - Parcel 1056355: 1,422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056355.md - Parcel 5689365: 1,384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5689365.md - Parcel 2471501: 1,285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471501.md - Parcel 1015503: 1,247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015503.md - Parcel 1032720: 1,081 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1032720.md - Parcel 1021605: 1,071 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021605.md - Parcel 1032436: 1,006 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1032436.md - Parcel 6229008: 1,000 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6229008.md - Parcel 1035111: 988 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1035111.md - Parcel 2950324: 971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950324.md - Parcel 1079616: 961 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079616.md - Parcel 1065582: 948 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065582.md - Parcel 1079348: 889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079348.md - Parcel 1090789: 873 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090789.md - Parcel 1058047: 867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058047.md - Parcel 1033875: 867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1033875.md - Parcel 1090318: 866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090318.md - Parcel 1013204: 863 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013204.md - Parcel 2471510: 860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471510.md - Parcel 1059456: 855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059456.md - Parcel 1076771: 852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1076771.md - Parcel 1014213: 840 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014213.md - Parcel 5804297: 840 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5804297.md - Parcel 1023667: 834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023667.md - Parcel 2471500: 827 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471500.md - Parcel 1079050: 818 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079050.md - Parcel 1029906: 810 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029906.md - Parcel 1084051: 809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084051.md - Parcel 1084422: 808 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084422.md - Parcel 1026272: 797 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026272.md - Parcel 1029493: 792 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029493.md - Parcel 1026545: 790 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026545.md - Parcel 1018943: 784 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018943.md - Parcel 1023152: 777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023152.md - Parcel 1019090: 770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1019090.md - Parcel 1029172: 764 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029172.md - Parcel 1028832: 762 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1028832.md - Parcel 1030138: 753 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030138.md - Parcel 1025318: 720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025318.md - Parcel 1024710: 719 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024710.md - Parcel 2471499: 712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471499.md - Parcel 1022033: 711 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022033.md - Parcel 1024228: 711 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024228.md - Parcel 2471498: 709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471498.md - Parcel 1081770: 709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081770.md - Parcel 2471514: 707 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471514.md - Parcel 2471513: 705 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471513.md - Parcel 1025699: 704 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025699.md - Parcel 2950303: 702 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950303.md - Parcel 2471512: 695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471512.md - Parcel 2471511: 692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471511.md - Parcel 3047140: 689 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3047140.md - Parcel 1030902: 674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030902.md - Parcel 2950310: 660 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950310.md - Parcel 1080724: 600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080724.md - Parcel 1080371: 593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080371.md - Parcel 5804327: 592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5804327.md - Parcel 5838988: 572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5838988.md - Parcel 5810040: 560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5810040.md - Parcel 5118024: 515 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5118024.md - Parcel 5810069: 507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5810069.md - Parcel 1077300: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1077300.md - Parcel 2950346: 28 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950346.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential): Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare; 65 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/DevelopmentPlans/KildareCountyDevelopmentPlan2023-2029/Volume2SmallTownsEnvironsVillagesRuralSettlements/ - M2 Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area): Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/DevelopmentPlans/KildareCountyDevelopmentPlan2023-2029/Volume2SmallTownsEnvironsVillagesRuralSettlements/ - S5 Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/DevelopmentPlans/KildareCountyDevelopmentPlan2023-2029/Volume2SmallTownsEnvironsVillagesRuralSettlements/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 17 Jun 2026, Kildare County Council 2675: Refused. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2675/0 - 30 Jun 2025, Kildare County Council 25118: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/25118/0 - 11 May 2020, Kildare County Council 20475: Conditional. Permission, 6 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20475/0 - 14 Apr 2020, Kildare County Council 20377: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20377/0 - 7 Nov 2018, Kildare County Council 181343: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 2 No. two storey dwelling houses, domestic stores, connection to mains sewer, landscaping and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181343/0 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 Carn. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carn. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1900–1910, Regional interest, registry number 11902806, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11902806. 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, registry number 11902807, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11902807. 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. ## 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 Carn, about 1 in 10 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_2572, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2572.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/carn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/carn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/carn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bohergoy Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bohergoy-upper.md - Brownstown Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brownstown-upper.md - Churchland East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/churchland-east.md - Churchland South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/churchland-south.md - Churchland West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/churchland-west.md - Common North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/common-north.md - Common South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/common-south.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtown-80946.md - Sheshoon: https://everytownland.com/kildare/sheshoon.md - Suncroft: https://everytownland.com/kildare/suncroft.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/carn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/carn