Davidstown Upper

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Davidstown Upper, from 42 m² to 349,615 m² (34.96 ha, 86.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Davidstown Upper 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.

• 26 Apr 2024Conditional

  to replace an existing telecommunications installation, wind turbine, associated equipment compound and fencing with a new 15m monopole type telecommunications support structure carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fenced compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works . Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of Retention Permission sought for existing telecommunications installation, wind turbine and associated equipment compound and fencing and planning permission been sought to replace same with a new 15m monopole type telecommunications support structure carrying antenna and dishes enclosed with a 2.4 metre high palisade fenced compound together associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460373

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 Davidstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Davidstown Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Davidstown Upper.

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 Davidstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Davidstown Upper

Area

1,209,061 m² (120.91 ha, 298.77 acres)

Civil parish

Graney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Castledermot, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castledermot electoral division: 1,853 people in 664 households; 70% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyburn Lower, Davidstown Lower, Deerpark, Killamaster (Co. Carlow), Knocknacree, Newtown, Newtown

Placenames

Davidstown Upper 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.