Coltstown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coltstown, from 903 m² to 447,567 m² (44.76 ha, 110.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Coltstown 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.

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  Material Recovery Facility at a worked out quarry site. The principal activity will involve the use of imported, uncontaminated soil and stone, sourced from construction sites, to backfill and restore the worked out quarry. Sancom Ltd intend on accepting a maximum of approximately 1.8 million tonnes of soil and stone material on-site for backfilling over the course of 10 to 25 years, depending on market demand for disposal services…It is proposed to carry out construction and demolition waste recovery activities on-site to include top-soil screening, sand and gravel washing, concrete crushing, associated aggregate production and garden waste composting. A maximum of 387,000 tonnes of construction and demolition related waste material will be accepted on-site per annum. The total area of the application site is 19.2 hectares inclusive of site access roads. The fill area is 13.65 hectares in size. The Construction and Demolition Material Recovery Area is 4.4 hectares in size. A waste Licence will be obtained for the proposed waste recovery activities under the Waste Management Act, as amended. An Environmental Impact Assessment report has been furnished alongside the Planning Application. As part of the Proposed Development it is proposed to construct a new site access road running south of the site to the L4015 Castledermot to Baltinglass Road and a new site entrance onto this road designed to appropriate standards. It is also proposed to install/develop the following on-site: a weighbridge, a wheel wash, a stockpile and sorting area, the appropriate material recovery plant and equipment, a waste inspection and quarantine area, surface water treatment infrastructure and external lighting. Existing plant, equipment, site infrastructure and settlement ponds situated on-site will be utilized for proposed site activities. A Bunded Fuel Storage area currently present on-site will be upgraded. Revised by Significant Further information which consists of the applicant Sancom Ltd. now propose accepting a maximum of 99,500 tonnes of waste material at the proposed facility per annum a 25 year project lifetime (72,000 tonnes for backfilling and 27,500 tonnes o C&D Waste for processing), rather than the 387,000 tonnes of waste material per annum over an anticipated 10 year project lifetime originally proposed. See Newspaper Notice for full details of proposed works at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20639

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coltstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD040-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Approximately oval mound or platform (dims 34m N-S; 22m E-W; H c. 2m) scarped on all sides, with traces of bank and fosse visible at base at N and W. Situated on floor of river valley. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on the 1907 OS 6-inch map as a circular area defined by a bank. Traces of a bank are visible indicating a circular area (diam. c. 40m). Described in 1955 as a platform ringfort with a shallow enclosing fosse (Danaher 1955, no. 282). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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_2631 (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 Coltstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Coltstown

Area

1,483,800 m² (148.38 ha, 366.65 acres)

Civil parish

Graney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Graney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graney electoral division: 803 people in 274 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullane Upper, Bigbog, Coltstown, Davidstown (Pilsworth), Graney West, Knockfield, Knockshannagh, Mullarney

Placenames

Coltstown 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.