Castlemitchell South

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlemitchell South, from 154 m² to 329,183 m² (32.92 ha, 81.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Castlemitchell South 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  for to construct an extension to dwelling house with necessary alterations and renovations to same dwelling. Full planning permission to demolish previous extension and existing domestic shed to facilitate the proposed extension. Full planning permission for the relocation of existing entrance, permission to install a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561096

• 18 Jul 2022Conditional

  a two-storey extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwelling and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22869

• 21 Mar 2022Conditional

  (a) Retention of as-built variations to planning application Ref: 00/587 comprising of minor alterations to elevations, location of dwelling on site as constructed and alterations to roadside boundary treatment. (b) Retention of change of use of attic space to habitable accommodation. (c) Retention of 9.4m x 5.9m detached, single storey pitched roof garage to house

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22301

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  extension to side of dwelling, retention of steel shed, retention of garage extension and conversion of attic to bedroom and storage area

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211487

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 Castlemitchell South.

Recorded monuments

• KD034-030 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett in 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.EF.37) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. A small ring-ditch (KD034-030001-) appears to be located in the interior. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD034-030001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 17 July 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.EF.37) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure (KD034-030----) defined by a fosse. A small ring-ditch is located in the interior. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Milestone/milepost, 1760–1765 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone monolithic county boundary stone, dated 1763, inscribed 'Queen's County 1763'.

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 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_2291 (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.

No address of the register names Castlemitchell South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Castlemitchell South · Caisleán Mhistéil Theas

Area

1,328,082 m² (132.81 ha, 328.18 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

Ballintubbert (Co. Laois), Castlemitchell North, Kellyville (Co. Laois), Kilcoo, Kilcrow

Placenames

Castlemitchell South 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.