# Caureen, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 450,900 m² (45.09 ha, 111.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,866 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathmore, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/rathmore.md - Barony: Naas North - Electoral division: Rathmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Rathmore electoral division: 1,175 people in 367 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% 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/26050 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80299 - Centre: latitude 53.207556, longitude -6.528343 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caureen, from 1,156 m² to 444,014 m² (44.4 ha, 109.72 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1053489: 444,014 m² (44.4 ha, 109.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053489.md - Parcel 1019578: 3,032 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1019578.md - Parcel 1047131: 2,700 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1047131.md - Parcel 1021393: 1,156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021393.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Caureen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 6 Dec 2024, Kildare County Council 24378: Conditional. Retention. for 1. Retention for demolition of rear porch. 2. Retention for alterations to roof profile and chimney. 3. Retention for underground bunker and associated retaining walls. 4. Retention for perimeter green fencing. 5. Retention for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling. 6. Retention for roadside boundary wall and entrance gates and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24378/0 - 29 Nov 2024, Kildare County Council 24370: N/a. Retention, 1 home. for 1. Retention for demolition of rear porch 2. Retention for alterations to roof profile and chimney 3. Retention for underground bunker and associated retaining walls 4. Retention for perimeter green fencing 5. Retention for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling 6. Retention for roadside boundary wall and entrance gates and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24370/0 - 13 May 2024, Kildare County Council 24151: N/a. Retention. Retention and Planning permission for 1. Retention for demolition of rear porch 2. Retention for alterations to roof profile and chimney 3. Retention for underground bunker and associated retaining walls 4. Retention for perimeter green fencing 5. Retention for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling 6. Permission to upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements and associated works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24151/0 - 7 May 2024, Kildare County Council 24142: N/a. Retention. 1. for demolition of rear porch 2. for alterations to roof profile and chimney 3. for underground bunker and associated retaining walls 4. for perimeter green fencing 5. for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling 6. Permission to upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24142/0 - 21 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21890: Conditional. Permission. 1. Permission for demolition of extension to the rear of existing dwelling. 2. Permission for a replacement extension to the rear which includes a basement. 3. Permission for the removal of existing window and provision of a replacement window on the South Eastern gable end on existing dwelling. 4. Permission for the removal of existing window and provision of 2 No. replacement windows on the North Western gable end on existing dwelling. 5. Permission for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling. 6. Permission to upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements. 7. Permission to demolish existing garage and permission to construct a replacement garage and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21890/0 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 Caureen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD020-014: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD020-014----. Prominently sited c. 60m W of a hill summit with panoramic views in all directions except E. A low, circular, grass-covered, earthen mound (diam 17m; H 1.5m at E-2m at N) has a large central depression (av. diam. 3m) which may be the result of modern disturbance, or might be the remains of a collapsed central chamber. A small earthfast boulder (visible dims. L 0.6m; H 0.5m) at the mound's base at N may be a kerb stone, while a second similar stone, just W of the mound's base at W may be a displaced kerbstone. Low whin-cover is starting to establish on the mound SW-WNW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caureen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caureen. - 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/caureen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/caureen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/caureen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Caureen 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) - Greenmount: https://everytownland.com/kildare/greenmount.md - Punchestown Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/punchestown-lower.md - Punchestown Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/punchestown-upper.md - Redbog: https://everytownland.com/kildare/redbog.md - Slatequarries: https://everytownland.com/kildare/slatequarries.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/caureen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/caureen