Donaghstown

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donaghstown, from 462 m² to 646,658 m² (64.67 ha, 159.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Donaghstown 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  PROPOSED SIDE PORCH EXTENSION TO THE SIDE (South/West FASADE) OF HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND EXTERNAL ALTERATION TO SIDE FAÇADE (North/East) WITH INSERT NEW WINDOW OPENING TO EXISTING DETACHED BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660975

• 10 Mar 2026Conditional

  a. detached garage to the side of house with associated site development works. b. External alterations to existing house: front façade : relocate alter existing window opening and insert new en-suite window (frosted glazed) opening; side façade: insert new window opening to existing detached bungalow dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2629

• 28 Mar 2025Refused

  for the construction of a solar PV development and an ‘under the fence’ transformer compound on a ca. 180ha site consisting of: I. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site; II. 39 No. inverter units (ca. 2.9m (h) x ca. 6.1m (l) and 2.4(w)); III. 1 No. control room structure (5m (h) x 15.3m (l) and 3.7m (w)); IV. 1 No. transformer unit (ca. 6m x ca. 4m) and associated bund; V. Security fencing around the ‘under the fence’ transformer compound (2.65m high); VI. Electrical and communications cabling; VII. Pole-mounted security cameras; VIII. Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; IX. Upgrade of 3 No. existing Site entrances; X. Development of 2 No. new Site entrances; XI. 3 No. temporary construction compounds; XII. Internal access tracks; and, XIII All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560326

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  for (1) the construction of a new single storey, low profile, extension to the West elevation of the existing dwelling to provide for a Dining Room (22 sq/mts) and (2) retention of planning permission is being sought for a previously constructed (Circa. 2021) single storey extension (38 sq/mts) to the rear (North) of the existing dwelling to provide for a Playroom together with all associated landscaping, site works and services

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460896

• 10 Sept 2024N/a

  (1) planning permission is being sought for the construction of a new single storey, low profile, extension to the West elevation of the existing dwelling to provide for a Dining Room (22 sq/mts) and (2) retention of planning permission is being sought for a previously constructed (Circa. 2021) single storey extension (38 sq/mts) to the rear (North) of the existing dwelling to provide for a Playroom together with all associated landscaping, site works and services

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460891

• 23 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of a two storey detached type house, one and a half storey detached type domestic garage with loft store, effluent treatment system, and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17959

• 12 Apr 2017N/a

  a) Demolition of existing 28m sq garden shed, b) Retention of existing 20m sq single storey pitched garden reflection room, c) 43.5m sq single storey flat roof studio to side of existing guesthouse & associated siteworks

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17398

• 20 Mar 2017N/a

  (a) Demolition of existing 28sqm garden shed, retention of existing 20sqm single storey pitched garden reflection room; (b) 43.5sqm single storey flat roof studio to side of existing guesthouse and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17299

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 Donaghstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD010-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On level pasture (formerly tillage, SMR file), immediately N of a small stream. A very poorly preserved sub rectangular area (dims L 24m E-W; Wth 18m N-S) is defined by a broad but very shallow fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.1-0.2m) along the N and by a low scarp (H 0.6m) along the E. Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP ATA 29, BDU 42) in 1967 as larger, more circular, and better-defined. An earthwork site (KD010-006----) lies c. 70m to the NW Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD010-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP ATA 29, BDU 42, 1967) as a long, narrow, slightly raised rectangular area (est. dims. L c. 80m NW-SE; Wth c. 20m NE-SW) with a rounded western end, truncated N-S to W of centre by a later road, subsequently disused and replaced by a realigned road to the W. The ground surface is uneven in this area, but the site limits are not readily discernable. A possible ringfort (KD010-005----) site lies c. 70m to the SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, church/chapel, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1860-3, comprising five-bay double-height nave with lancet-arch openings, single-bay three-stage engaged corner tower to west on a square-plan with spire and two-bay double-height lower chancel to north-east gable end having single-bay single-storey sacristy projection to north-west. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to sacristy projection). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with trefoil motif. Cut-stone chimney stack to gable to sacristy projection. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. Pyramidal roof to spire with slate (fish-scale pattern). Hammer-dressed snecked limestone walls. Stepped buttresses to corners. Lancet-arch window openings (paired to south-west gable end; tripartite to north-east gable end with hood moulding over). Cut-stone chamfered block-and-start surrounds. Fixed-pane leaded windows. Lancet-arch openings to tower. Louvered timber panels to top stage. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone chamfered surround. Hood moulding over. Timber panelled doors. Full-height interior open into roof. Glazed timber panelled internal porch. Exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels. Gothic style altar and reredos to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns to site. Rubble stone boundary wall to site.

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 20 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_2834 (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 Donaghstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Donaghstown

Area

1,406,121 m² (140.61 ha, 347.46 acres)

Civil parish

Laraghbryan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Maynooth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Maynooth electoral division: 18,729 people in 6,110 households; 65% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bryanstown, Cormickstown, Crinstown, Derrinstown, Kealstown, Rowanstown, Taghadoe

Placenames

Donaghstown 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.