Dowdingstown

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dowdingstown, from 14 m² to 542,694 m² (54.27 ha, 134.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Dowdingstown 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.

• 4 Mar 2024Conditional

  (a) Extension to, and conversion of previously permitted domestic shed to home office/gym with bathroom and general storage space, (b) connection to existing site services and all associated development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460186

• 22 Aug 2023Conditional

  for (a) the construction of first floor extensions to side and rear of existing detached two storey dwelling, (b) internal reconfigurations, (c) changes to existing fenestration, (d) and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23857

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a two storey extension to the rear, the construction of an entrance porch to the front, the replacement of existing windows and external doors, the replacement of the existing concrete roof tiles with slate minor internal and external elevational alterations, all to the existing detached dormer dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21872

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  extensions and alterations to the existing dormer style dwelling, to include the following, removal of existing sunroom and construction of a new utility room, living room and extension to existing kitchen area all at ground floor level to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, along with all associated site development and facilitating works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201034

• 2 Sept 2020N/a

  will consist of extensions and alterations to the existing dormer style dwelling, to include the following, removal of existing sunroom and construction of a new utility room, living room and extension to existing kitchen area all at ground floor level to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, along with all associated site development and facilitating works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20995

• 12 Aug 2020Conditional

  Demolition of existing detached single storey domestic garage with permission to construct a single storey detached glasshouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20895

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  (a) the single storey extension to the north elevation, consisting of an extension to the dining area, (b) the single storey extension to the west elevation with rooflights, consisting of an extension to the utility room, (c) the single storey extension to the west elevation, consisting of a sunroom with rooflights, (d) solar panels to the rear roof, (e) two rooflights to the rear roof over the existing kitchen, (f) minor alterations to the shape of the first floor windows on the north elevation, minor internal and external elevational alterations, all to the existing two storey detached dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20833

• 12 Jun 2020Conditional

  (1) Retention of alterations to existing dwelling previously granted under planning Ref. No. 05/199, including: (i) Increased floor area and ridge height of garage; (ii) Minor alterations to existing dwelling elevations. (2) Full planning permission for proposed alterations to existing dwelling including: (i) Construction of two storey porch front elevation; (ii) Single storey infill extension to rear of existing dwelling; (iii) Minor alterations to existing elevations; (iv) Conversion of garage to habitable space including construction of first floor habitable space; (v) Internal alterations to existing layout and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20601

• 29 May 2020N/a

  1. Retention of alterations to existing dwelling previously granted under planning ref. no.05/199, including; (i) Increased floor area and ridge height of garage (ii) minor alterations to existing dwelling elevations. 2. Full planning permission for proposed alterations to existing dwelling including; (i) construction of two storey porch front elevation, (ii) single storey infill extension to rear of dwelling, (iii) minor alterations to existing elevations, (iv) internal alterations to existing layout and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20539

• 1 May 2020N/a

  The development will consist of 1. Retention of alterations to existing dwelling previously granted under planning ref no. 05/199, including (a) increased floor area and ridge height of garage (b) minor alterations to existing dwelling elevations. 2. Full permission for proposed alterations to existing dwelling including (a) construction of two storey porch front elevations, (b) single single storey infill extension to rear of existing dwelling, (c) minor alterations to existing elevations, (d) internal alterations to existing layout and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20446

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 Dowdingstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dowdingstown.

Architectural heritage

• Dowdingstown House, farm house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1830, on a T-shaped plan with elliptical-headed door opening to centre approached by flight of steps. Extended, c.1880, comprising two-bay three-storey return to rear to west. Reroofed and refenestrated, c.1995. Hipped roof (gabled to return). Replacement artificial slate, c.1995. Concrete ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Timber eaves. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Elliptical-headed door opening approached by flight of stone steps. Rendered pilaster doorcase with entablature on consoles. Timber panelled door. Fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Tarmacadam drive to front. Lawns to site. Formal avenue to south.Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1830, to south. Refenestrated, c.1980. Now disused. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stack. Timber eaves. Replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1980. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1980. Square-headed door opening. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Sited adjacent to avenue at entrance to estate.

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_2689 (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 Dowdingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Dowdingstown · Baile Dúidín

Area

959,538 m² (95.95 ha, 237.11 acres)

Civil parish

Ladytown, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Ladytown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ladytown electoral division: 990 people in 317 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbally, Herbertstown, Newland North, Stephenstown North, Stephenstown South, Walterstown

Placenames

Dowdingstown 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.