Clondown
Townland in the civil parish of Lackagh, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 63.9 ha
- 158 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,064 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clondown, from 150 m² to 253,442 m² (25.34 ha, 62.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Clondown 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
31 Jul 2026N/a
a) a single storey dwelling, b) domestic garage, c) new recessed entrance and new field entrance adjacent to it, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2698
14 Dec 2020Conditional
retention permission for (A) for previously approved domestic garage under planning reference number 03/2185 Exceeding approval height to 5150mm. Once approved and changed to Montessori constructed under register reference 07/836 now been used as domestic storage shed only. (B) A non-approved extension to the side of the Montessori to the right side of that above now been used as domestic storage shed only, both elements (A&B) referred to above form part of the same single structure located in the rear garden to the rear of the main domestic dwelling,
Retention · Kildare County Council, 201528
8 Jun 2020Conditional
a single storey front and side extension and dormer front and rear extension to an existing bungalow, ancillary alterations to all elevations, foul water to new on site effluent treatment system and percolation area (to replace existing septic tank), surface water to soakaways, all accessed via an existing vehicular entrance, demolition of existing domestic garage and all associated site work
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20581
20 Jul 2018N/a
change of use of a detached pre-school facility to the rear of existing dwelling house to a residential structure to accommodate a person with intellectual disability, with carers support provided from the main house. Additional Alterations to include a new window and new widened door on the front elevation and a new window on the rear elevation
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18879
10 Jul 2018N/a
change of use of a detached pre-school facility to the rear of existing dwelling house to a residential structure to accommodate a person with intellectual disability, with carers support provided from the main house. Additional alterations to include a new window and new widened door on the front elevation and a new window on the rear elevation
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18825
18 Jan 2017Conditional
erection of a cubicle shed with a slatted tank and working aprons with all associated facilities and site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 1729
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 Clondown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clondown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clondown.
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, 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_2313 (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 Clondown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Clondown
- Area
- 638,581 m² (63.86 ha, 157.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lackagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Lackagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lackagh electoral division: 841 people in 265 households; 90% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykelly, Hybla or Ballyneage, Mountrice, Toghereen, Togherorymore
- Placenames
- Clondown 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.