Castlereban North

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlereban North, from 134 m² to 272,404 m² (27.24 ha, 67.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Castlereban 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.

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  bungalow, detached double garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18303

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• KD030-008 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  On a low rise some 90m W bank of the S-flowing River Barrow, in open lowlying arable land. According to Fitzgerald (1897, 170), in the reign of King John (1199-1216) Richard de St Michael, created Baron of Rheban, built the two castles of Woodstock (KD035-021----) and Rheban, both of which were for the defence of the fords at those places. In 1288, John de Sandford, archbishop of Dublin and justiciar of Ireland (who governed for the king) visited Rheban (Otway-Ruthven 1993, 207). The site comprises the poorly preserved and heavily overgrown remains of a possible 13th-century masonry castle, subsequently altered, and later incorporated into a 17th-century fortified house. The original structure consists of a long, two storied, rectangular building (int.dims. L 13.9m NNW-SSE; Wth 8.2m ENE-WSW; wall T 1.8-2m) of rubble masonry with a very low, chamfered base-batter (H 1.1m; Wth 0.4m). Remains of a third story at the S end are 17th-century in date The ground-floor is entered through a broken doorway with the end of a barring-hole on its W side at the E end of the N wall, and contains two parallel, wicker-centered, barrel-vaults (Wth 3.2m; H 3.6m) orientated on a NNE-SSW axis which may be a later insertion into the structure. Two loops survive in the E wall and a third, near the N end, is broken out for a modern entrance. Each vault has a loop at either end of the S wall but the E loop is broken out for a modern entrance as is a loop at the centre of the W wall. Access between the vaults is via a flat-arched doorway near the S end of the central dividing wall (wall T 1.75m) which contains three shallow, rectangular recesses in its W face and, near its N end, a narrow round-arched doorway gave access to an intramural stairs rising to the N: the doorway is now blocked, denying access to first floor-level. Two modern walls subdivide the vaults near their N ends for use as sheds. A narrow, plain lintelled-doorway at the N end of the W wall gives access to a small tower which, together with the partial remains of a rectangular building at the S end of the W wall and its continuation to the E above the S end of the hall-house, is part of the 17th-C fortified house. The tower is rectangular in plan (ext dims. L 7.3m NNE-SSW; Wth 3.9m ENE-WSW; wall T 1.2m) built of coursed blocks with a steep base-batter It survives to two stories in height but is not bonded to the hall-house. The ground floor is entered through a flat-arched doorway at the E end of the S wall and contains two parallel barrel-vaults (Wth c. 2m; H c. 2.6m) orientated on an ENE-WSW axis with no internal access between the vaults. The S vault has a loop in the W wall and a doorway in the E wall gives to the hall-house. The N vault was entered through a doorway in the NW angle, now blocked, and has a loop in the N wall. Access to the first floor was from the first floor of the castle. The ivy-clad S end (S and W walls) of a 17th-fortified house (KD030-008001-) project W from the SW angle of the castle. Traces of a fosse c. 40m to WSW noted in 1987 (SMR file) are no longer visible at ground-level. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 September 2013

• KD030-008001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Incorporated into an earlier castle (KD030-008----), the ivy-clad S end (S and W walls) of a 17th-fortified house project W from the SW angle of the earlier structure. The S wall (L 5.8m E-W) survives to three stories (and extends E over the S wall of the castle) with large hood-moulded, mullioned and transommed windows on each floor, while the three-storied W wall (L 5.2m N-S) is reduced to one story at its present N end where a modern N wall is inserted to make a lean-to shed, with a large double-door at the S end of the W wall, which is inaccessible. A later (18th/19th-century?), single-storied, rectangular building (ext. dims. L 14.2m E-W; Wth 6.2m N-S; wall T 1m) abuts the S end of the castle and has a doorway in the S wall and a modern double-doorway in the W wall, above which is a carved stone bearing a jolly-looking, wigged creature. Traces of a fosse c. 40m to WSW noted in 1987 (SMR file) are no longer visible at ground-level. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 September 2013

• KD034-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett in 1991. Aerial photographs (GB91.EA.24 and 27) show the cropmarks of a curvilinear enclosure with a rectilinear annexe attached to the south-western side, both defined by fosses. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Reban Lodge, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1880, originally three-bay. Extended, 2002, comprising single-bay single-storey end bay to right with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to front. Gable-ended roof with thatch (gabled to porch). Rope work to ridges and to eaves. Rendered coping to gables. Rendered chimney stack. Roughcast walls (possibly over rubble stone or mud walled construction). Unpainted. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled, 2002). Replacement concrete sills, 2002. Replacement timber casement windows, 2002. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.2002. Set perpendicular to road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Roughcast boundary wall to site.

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_2288 (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 Castlereban North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Castlereban North · Caisleán Réabáin Thuaidh

Area

2,806,744 m² (280.67 ha, 693.56 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

Ballymanus (Co. Laois), Ballyroe, Bert Demesne, Castlereban South, Crohanree, Kilberry, Lowtown, Moatstown, Portree (Co. Laois)

Placenames

Castlereban 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.