# Dangan, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lyons, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 865,245 m² (86.52 ha, 213.81 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,810 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lyons, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/lyons.md - Barony: Salt South - Electoral division: Donaghcumper, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 6,652 people lived in 2,218 households in the Donaghcumper electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 60% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25370 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80457 - Centre: latitude 53.315652, longitude -6.536307 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dangan, from 60 m² to 110,422 m² (11.04 ha, 27.29 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1066117: 110,422 m² (11.04 ha, 27.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066117.md - Parcel 1084889: 108,704 m² (10.87 ha, 26.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084889.md - Parcel 1034488: 83,947 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034488.md - Parcel 1078324: 68,684 m² (6.87 ha, 16.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078324.md - Parcel 1054062: 59,699 m² (5.97 ha, 14.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054062.md - Parcel 1018719: 53,560 m² (5.36 ha, 13.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018719.md - Parcel 1089722: 35,415 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089722.md - Parcel 2675462: 28,655 m² (2.87 ha, 7.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2675462.md - Parcel 4801012: 12,542 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4801012.md - Parcel 5119718: 10,229 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5119718.md - Parcel 1042446: 6,810 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042446.md - Parcel 4801195: 6,675 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4801195.md - Parcel 5644803: 4,052 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5644803.md - Parcel 1072475: 3,917 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072475.md - Parcel 4857809: 3,808 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4857809.md - Parcel 4857662: 3,759 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4857662.md - Parcel 2675463: 3,073 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2675463.md - Parcel 2676819: 2,464 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676819.md - Parcel 5599320: 1,542 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5599320.md - Parcel 4101842: 508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4101842.md - Parcel 6206645: 60 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6206645.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU (Agriculture): South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sdcc.ie/en/devplan2022/adopted-plan/ - G1 OS (Open space, park): South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sdcc.ie/en/devplan2022/adopted-plan/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 18 Dec 2025, South Dublin County Council ACP-323980-25: Registered application. Strategic infrastructure application. The proposed development will primarily consist of a proposed Raw Water Intake & Pumping Station at Garrynatineel, Ballina, Co. Tipperary; a proposed Water Treatment Plant at Incha Beg, Birdhill, Co. Tipperary; a proposed Break Pressure Tank at Knockanacree, Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary; a proposed Booster Pumping Station at Coagh Upper, Birr, Co. Offaly; a proposed Flow Control Valve at Commons Upper, Celbridge, Co. Kildare; a proposed Termination Point Reservoir at Loughtown Upper, Peamount, County Dublin; c. 172km of pipeline connecting the water infrastructure sites; uprating and associated works to the existing Ardnacrusha - Birdhill 38kV line and Ardnacrusha - Birdhill - Nenagh 38kV line, works at the existing Birdhill 38 kV electricity substation, power connections to infrastructure and all ancillary works above and below ground. The nature, extent and location of the proposed development is fully described in the application plans and particulars. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) and Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) have been prepared in respect of the Proposed Development. A copy of this application may also be viewed on the application website www.watersupplyproject.ie Public Consultation in respect of this application runs for the period commencing on the 6th January 2026. Any submission/observation must be received by An Coimisiún Pleanála no later than 5.30pm on the 25th February 2026. Submissions or observations may be made only to An Coimisiún Pleanála. Submissions can be made by hand or post to, 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1, or by email to laps@pleanala.ie.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/69621 - 21 Feb 2020, Kildare County Council 20173: Conditional. Permission. (a) Rear extension & alterations and (b) New dormer style roof & alterations to create first floor extension to existing single storey dwelling using existing effluent treatment system & percolation area with new vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20173/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dangan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dangan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dangan, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2901, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2901.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dangan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dangan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dangan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dangan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Colganstown (Co. Dublin): https://everytownland.com/dublin/colganstown.md - Commons Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commons-lower.md - Commons Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commons-upper.md - Hazelhatch (Co. Dublin): https://everytownland.com/dublin/hazelhatch.md - Kearneystown Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kearneystown-lower.md - Kearneystown Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kearneystown-upper.md - Loughlinstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/loughlinstown.md - Ringwood (Co. Dublin): https://everytownland.com/dublin/ringwood.md - Skeagh (Co. Dublin): https://everytownland.com/dublin/skeagh.md - Straleek: https://everytownland.com/kildare/straleek.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dangan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/dangan