Clownings

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clownings, from 95 m² to 759,828 m² (75.98 ha, 187.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Clownings 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.

• 17 Jun 2026Conditional

  a single storey detached car port with storage area abutting existing garden wall located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated services and site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660656

• 15 Jun 2026N/a

  The development will consist of a single storey detached car port with storage area abutting existing garden wall located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated services and site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660644

• 17 Nov 2025Conditional

  for a 10-year permission for the expansion of the brewery facility (permitted under Reg. Ref: 22/1291 and ABP Ref.: 316491 (referred to below as Brewery 1) and described as follows: Brewery 2 Building: (c.9,333m2) Single and two-storey building including brewhouse, storage and handling areas, lab, control room, workshop, plant rooms/areas (internal and external roof-mounted), storage rooms/areas, process areas, utilities and services areas, circulation, office and welfare facilities, and all associated ancillary areas. Building height to a maximum of c.18.4m comprised of ground floor area (c.8,483m2), 1st floor (c.850m2). External Yard adjacent to the Brewery 2 Building: 36 No. new storage vessels/silos/tanks, with associated access platforms, to a maximum height of c.23.3m. Provision of external pipe bridges to a maximum height of c.7.7m. Extension to Brewery 1 - Raw Materials Handling (RMH) Facility to serve Brewery 2: Comprising a 4-storey c.22.3m high extension to Brewery 1. The extension is c. 1,242m2 and includes a raw materials deliveries area (open area with canopy - c.248m2 in extent), 12 no storage vessels plus 3 no. grain silos with truck set down area, pipe bridge connection between the RMH and Brewery 2 (brewhouse) partially covered for pedestrian movement between Brewery 1 and 2. Relocation of approved backlit “Diageo” lettering sign (size 0.9m high 4.275m wide) on existing northern façade to proposed RMH Extension. Tanker filling station expansion (open areas under canopies): 2 no. additional covered tanker bays to be added to permitted Tanker Filling Station (under 22/1291) (c.270m2) with a further 2 no. covered tanker bays to be located adjacently (c.270m2). Roaster Building: 4-storey building (c.3,010m2), to a height of c.19.4m, above part-basement to accommodate plant and equipment associated with the roasting process and including ancillary facilities such as roast handling, barley intake, control room, workshop and associated staff rooms, internal and external plant and 12 No external silos with associated access stairs and platforms. Biogas Filling Station and ancillary external plant compound: c. 1,265m2 of yard area including containerised control room (11m2) to a height of c.3m. Fire Fighting Systems (external compound): comprising back-up generator, fire water tanks, pump equipment. Extension to Permitted Water Utilities Plant: including single storey building containing water treatment and recovery plant (c.359m2) to a height of

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561298

• 28 Oct 2022Conditional

  for a purpose-built brewery as follows: - Main Brewery Facility (c.9,148m2) including brew house, storage and handling areas, labs, control rooms, workshops, plant rooms/areas (internal and external/roof), storage rooms/areas, process areas and valve blocks, utilities and services areas, circulation, office/admin and welfare facilities, and all associated ancillary areas. Building height ranging up to c.24.3m and including ground floor area (c.7,325m2), part basement (c.72m2), 1st floor (c.1,213m2), 2nd floor (c.270m2) and 3rd floor (c.268m2). Tanker filling station (open area with canopy c.462m2) and raw materials deliveries area (open area with canopy c.138m2 in extent), 92 no. new storage vessels/silos/tanks, with associated access platforms, ranging in height up to c.23.3m. 2 no. external substation buildings (total area 60m2 and building height c.3.8m). Provision of external pipe bridges ranging up to c.7.7m in height. Provision of PV panels on roofs (c.1,171m2 in extent). Provision of external building signage (total area c.12m2). - Renewable Heating Plant Building (c.1,644m2, with height up c.15.9m) including ground floor area (c.1,358m2), part basement (c.286m2) and including internal plant area, turbine room, fuel store, electrical distribution, office/admin areas, externally located Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs), and 2 no. flue stacks (each c.20m total height). - Utilities Area including Welfare & Control Room building, external electrical plant area, electrical container plant rooms, combined heat and power container plant room (with a flue stack c.11m in total height), fire water tanks (2 no. up to c.4.5m in height) and pump house room. Total floor area of Utilities Area buildings c.142m2 and building height up to c.4.2m. - Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) area with associated tanks (9 no. ranging in height up to c.22.25m) with associated plant rooms/areas (including biogas infrastructure and chemical storage areas), electrical container plant rooms, and dewatering building. Total floor area of WWTP buildings c.55m2 and building height up to c.8.1m. - Water Recycling Plant (WRP) area with main plant building (with external open area with canopy), 2 no. tanks (each c.10m in height), external plant and equipment. Total floor area of WRP buildings c.195m2 and building height up to 7.5m. - Water Treatment Plant (WTP) with 3 no. tanks (ranging in height up to c.17.4m) with associated plant rooms and external plant areas & electrical container

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221291

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  for A) Construction of a new single storey extension to provide new kitchen / dining / living room / utility areas, all to the side and rear of the existing single storey semi-detached cottage. B) Alterations to the internal layout of the cottage and minor changes to the existing windows style, along with all associated site development and facilitating works including site landscaping at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211271

• 13 Oct 2020Conditional

  of the as constructed extension and alterations to the existing dwelling, comprising the following: retention of a 7.8sqm extension to kitchen/dining area, at ground floor level, all to the rear of the existing dwelling, along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201195

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  (1) Construct a bungalow style dwelling. (2) Construct a separate double garage. (3) Construct a secondary sewage treatment plant with a sand polishing filter percolation area. (4) Lay a new roadway over my parents' land as an extension to their existing driveway to access my site. (5) All ancillary groundworks. The above works to be carried out on my site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201042

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  to construct (1) a single storey bungalow. (2) a secondary sewage treatment unit with percolation area. (3) all ancillary groundworks in connection with the proposed development. These works to be carried out on my site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181564

• 9 Aug 2018Conditional

  1. Retention of dormer windows and roof lights to rear elevation and retention of roof windows to the front elevation all a t first floor / attic level, also alteration to entrance porch of the main house. 2 Retention of the change of use of the detached domestic garage from garage / store to home office, along with existing modifications to the elevations, including new window and doors. 3. Retention of existing steel storage shed / outbuilding measuring 72 sqm, constructed to the rear of the site. All the above to be retained as constructed, along with all facilitating and associated site development works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18967

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  alteration to elevations of existing dwelling by removal of existing bay windows and installing new windows along the principle front elevation and the creation of a new entrance porch to the kitchen

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17514

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  of the porch to the front of the house, alterations to the original flat roof over the sunroom and study, the detached domestic garage to the rear, the garden shed and fuel store to the rear and the fencing around the tennis court all to the existing two storey detached dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17444

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clownings.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clownings.

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 10 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_2656 (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 Clownings with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Clownings

Area

2,508,736 m² (250.87 ha, 619.92 acres)

Civil parish

Greatconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Droichead Nua Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Droichead Nua (Newbridge) Rural electoral division: 2,844 people in 863 households; 91% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Greatconnell, Herbertstown, Lewistown, Littleconnell

Placenames

Clownings 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.