Castlemitchell North
Townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare; in Irish Caisleán Mhistéil Thuaidh
- Area
- 292.5 ha
- 723 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 2,220 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlemitchell North, from 5 m² to 1,055,906 m² (105.59 ha, 260.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Castlemitchell North 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
16 Nov 2023Conditional
to construct a Dwelling house, Domestic garage, waste water treatment system, Percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work. Revised by Significant Further Information which includes revised site boundaries, the relocation of the proposed house on site and house modifications
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360385
2 Feb 2023Conditional
(a) Retention permission for existing garden shed; (b) Retention permission for a dormer window to the front elevation of existing dormer bungalow and (c) Permission for two new Velux roof windows to accommodate fire escape from first floor habitable rooms and all associated site development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2384
7 Feb 2018Conditional
to construct an A-Roof shed (agricultural building), concrete feed passage, concrete apron/dung storage and associated site work. Revised by significant further information consisting of; an upgrade/relocation of existing entrance and site boundary increased
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18116
24 Jan 2018Conditional
demolition of existing small shed and construction of new single storey extension to side of house including internal alterations to existing house and retention of existing garage/domestic shed to rear
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 1869
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 Castlemitchell North.
Recorded monuments
- KD034-004 Castle - unclassified
Description
Shown on the OS 6-inch mapping just NE of the present ‘Castlemitchell House’. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 25 November
- KD034-031 Ring-ditch
Description
Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett in 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.EE.13) shows the cropmark of a ring-ditch; one of a pair (KD034-032----) of ring-ditches located in close proximity to one another. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011
- KD034-032 Ring-ditch
Description
Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett in 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.EE.13) shows the cropmark of a ring-ditch; one of a pair (KD034-031----) of ring-ditches located in close proximity to one another. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011
- KD034-033 Enclosure
Description
Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett in 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.EE.22) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlemitchell North.
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 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_2290 (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 Castlemitchell North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Castlemitchell North · Caisleán Mhistéil Thuaidh
- Area
- 2,925,269 m² (292.53 ha, 722.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Churchtown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Electoral division
- Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Churchtown electoral division: 554 people in 199 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brackney, Castlemitchell South, Churchtown South, Courttown West, Kellyville (Co. Laois), Kilcoo, Raheenadeeragh
- Placenames
- Castlemitchell North 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.