Churchtown North
Townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile an Teampaill Thuaidh
- Area
- 79.8 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 4,062 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchtown North, from 923 m² to 187,440 m² (18.74 ha, 46.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Churchtown 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
3 Sept 2026N/a
a new bungalow containing 3 bedrooms, kitchen/dining, utility, living room, bathroom on ground floor and bed 4 with study and family spaces in the attic. This application is also to include a new entrance from the public road and all ancillary site works, retention of a currently certified Envirocare drainage system, retention of the applicants mobile home on the site and its removal upon completion of construction of the proposed bungalow
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 26107
1 May 2026Refused
a change of design to a 4 bedroom bungalow containing 3 bedrooms, kitchen/dining, utility, living room, bathroom on ground floor and bed 4 with study and family spaces in the attic on a previously approved site containing an Envirocare P12 drainage system
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2657
17 Apr 2026N/a
Change of design to 4 bedroom bungalow containing 3 bedrooms, kitchen/dining utility, living room, bathroom on ground floor and bedroom with study and family spaces in the attic on a previously approved site containing an Envirocare P12 drainage system.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2651
19 Jun 2023N/a
Extension of Duration of 08/48 comprising construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, garage and to install a mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 23669
13 Mar 2020N/a
Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. 08/48 - construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, garage and to install a mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 20267
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 Churchtown North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Churchtown North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Churchtown 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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2318 (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 Churchtown North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Churchtown North · Baile an Teampaill Thuaidh
- Area
- 797,533 m² (79.75 ha, 197.07 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
- Ballyroe, Brownstown, Castlereban South, Churchtown South, Courttown East, Milltown, Raheenadeeragh
- Placenames
- Churchtown 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.