Cherrymills
Cherrymills is a townland in the civil parish of Harristown, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 64.7 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 11,338 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cherrymills, from 327 m² to 124,393 m² (12.44 ha, 30.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cherrymills 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
29 Jul 2026N/a
will consist of; Change of use from existing domestic garage (previously granted under plannng permission ref. No. 042406 ) to independent living unit, comprising of disable bathroom, bedroom and kitchen / living area, with connection to exisitng septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660868
4 Jun 2026Conditional
for the construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated site works. (This application is to replace previously granted permission file ref 22/1156)
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660594
4 Jun 2026N/a
the construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated site works (this application is to replace previously granted permission file ref 22/1156)
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660590
23 Sept 2022Conditional
the construction of a detached single storey house, detached single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221156
12 Jul 2021Conditional
sought for (a) Two-Storey Type Dwelling with converted attic space as built granted previously under Planning Reg. Ref. 07/234 & (b) Domestic Garage using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211017
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cherrymills.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cherrymills.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cherrymills, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cherrymills.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cherrymills with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Cherrymills
- Area
- 647,462 m² (64.75 ha, 159.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Harristown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Harristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 479 people lived in 158 households in the Harristown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawn, Boherbaun Lower, Boherbaun Upper or Monapheeby, Lenagorra, Pullagh
- Placenames
- Cherrymills 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.