Crewhill
Crewhill is a townland in the civil parish of Laraghbryan, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 86.9 ha
- 215 acres
- Land parcels
- 244
- registered freehold, median 301 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
244 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crewhill, from 2 m² to 221,736 m² (22.17 ha, 54.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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
- R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 233 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space and Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Jul 2026Conditional
the widening of the existing vehicular entrance from 350m.m to 4700m.m including all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2689
3 Dec 2024Conditional
for • Demolition of the existing single storey rear extension, garden shed and hipped / side roofs; • Alterations to existing window and/or door openings at ground and first floors on the north elevation (front); • New window openings at ground floor on the east elevation (side); at ground and first floors on the west (side) and rear (south) elevations; • Construction of new single storey extension at ground floor to the side / rear with rooflight and new single storey extension at first floor to the front, side and rear; • New ridge rooflight within existing and extended main hipped roof; • Widening of the existing vehicular entrance to 3.5m, driveway widening and associated alterations to the front boundary wall; • All associated demolitions, internal alterations, site, drainage, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461287
29 Nov 2024N/a
for demolition of the existing single storey rear extension, garden shed and hipped / side roofs; alterations to existing window and/or door openings at ground and first floors on the north elevation (front); new window openings at ground floor on the east elevation (side); at ground and first floors on the west (side) and rear (south) elevations; construction of new single storey extension at ground floor to the side / rear with rooflight and new single storey extension at first floor to the front, side and rear; new ridge rooflight within existing and extended main hipped roof; widening of the existing vehicular entrance to 3.5m, driveway widening and associated alterations to the front boundary wall; all associated demolitions, internal alterations, site, drainage, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461272
19 Aug 2024N/a
for attic conversion for storage space and alterations to part hip of roof, new metal clad dormer and roof-light at rear roof, new window to gable, and all associated works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460801
19 Aug 2024Conditional
Attic conversion for storage space, and alterations to part hip of roof, new metal clad dormer and roof-light at rear roof, new window to gable, and all associated works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460803
17 May 2024Conditional
for the construction of a single-storey porch extension to the front of the house and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 24160
1 Oct 2021Conditional
for attic conversion for storage space and alterations to part hip end of roof
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211415
22 Apr 2021Conditional
the construction of a single storey shed in the rear garden of the house. All associated site works and all ancillary minor works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21537
7 Apr 2021N/a
the construction of a single storey shed in the rear garden of thehouse, All associated site works and all ancillary minor works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21453
26 Jan 2021Conditional
construction of a single storey porch extension to the front of the house, a two-storey extension to the side and rear of the house and an attic conversion with new box dormer window to rear of house. The proposed development will consist of a new playroom, WC, utility, bedroom, walk in wardrobe, en-suite, study and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2174
11 Nov 2020Conditional
a one storey extension to the existing conservatory to rear, total area 5 sqm, to provide sitting at ground level with new roofs to existing lean-to and conservatory. Works include minor internal alterations, modifications to rear elevation, attic conversion to store/study, with steel clad dormer window to rear, all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201354
4 Nov 2020N/a
a 1 storey extension to the existing conservatory to rear, total area 5m², to provide sitting at ground level with new roofs to existing lean-to & conservatory. Works include minor internal alterations, modifications to rear elevation, attic conversion to store/study, with steel clad dormer window to rear, all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201324
28 Apr 2020Conditional
11.9 sq. m first floor extension at front and 4.4 sq. m first floor extension at rear both to gable side of dwelling, with new pitched roof and extended existing ridge of main roof not exceeding current height of 8.55m, with new windows, internal modifications and all associated works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20423
19 Dec 2018Conditional
construction of a single storey porch to front with pitched roof over, a single storey flat roof extension to side with a two storey extension with hipped roof over, a single storey extension to rear with roof-light over single storey section and a two storey flat roof extension over a section of proposed rear extension, demolition and alteration of the internal space to accommodate the new layout at ground and first floor level, existing fenestration to be altered to accommodate same, widening of vehicle entrance by moving pier and maintain existing connection to existing County Council soil and surface water and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181542
2 May 2018Conditional
construction of 6.5sqm ground floor extension to rear of existing dwelling, 23.5sqm first floor extension over existing single storey to side of existing dwelling (total area 30sqm) including 2 No. windows to side and associated site works and landscaping
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18503
8 Mar 2018Conditional
Construction of a new single storey prefabricated building (area 143.5m2) on the grounds of Maynooth GAA. The development is to be ancillary to existing use of lands. The building will be used as meeting / lecture rooms (enabling Maynooth GAA to provide courses such as ; child protection, coaching, first aid, etc.) in evening and weekend hours and a playschool during day time hours. The building includes; two classrooms, office, storage, staff kitchen, other ancillary accommodation. The development also includes the provision of an outdoor play area and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18235
11 Aug 2017Conditional
the construction of new 2.4 metre high perimeter fencing to the north, west and south boundaries of 17 hectares of land to the west of the existing north campus including all associated site and ancillary works. Existing boundary treatment between lands to remain in situ
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17913
7 Jul 2017N/a
the construction of a new 3 metre high perimeter fencing to the north, west and south boundaries of 27 hectares of land to the west of the existing North Campus including all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17797
10 May 2017Conditional
a single storey porch extension to the front of the house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17526
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 Crewhill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crewhill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crewhill.
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 Crewhill, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2832 (ZIP).
- 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 Crewhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Crewhill
- Area
- 869,386 m² (86.94 ha, 214.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Laraghbryan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt North
- Electoral division
- Maynooth, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 18,729 people lived in 6,110 households in the Maynooth electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Laraghbryan East, Mariavilla, Maynooth, Moyglare (Co. Meath), Timard
- Placenames
- Crewhill 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.