Downings South

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Downings South, from 50 m² to 746,702 m² (74.67 ha, 184.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Downings South 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.

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  planning permission to reconstruct and remodel existing derelict house including separation of unit from existing adjoining neighbouring property together with all associated site works. Retention permission is sought for the following: 1. Temporary siting of existing Mobile dwelling house for a period of 5 years 2. Existing waste water treatment system, stormwater soakaways and all associated site works. 3. Widening of existing northern vehicular entrance. 4. Resurfacing of entire site with broken stone made from recycled building waste together with all associated site works. 5. Temporary siting of existing Shed to the front of the existing derelict dwelling. 6. Existing boundary fencing as constructed

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2561428

• 20 Jun 2024Conditional

  for a proposed single-storey extension to the rear of the house, internal modifications, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460554

• 28 May 2024N/a

  for a proposed single-storey extension to the rear of the house, internal modifications, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460481

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  for amendments to the previously approved planning permission reg ref 92/790 consisting of a first floor 39sqm above the original house the roof being increased in height and pitch with new dormer facing the road and additional windows and rooflights; and planning permission for the demolition of an existing outhouse and for a new single storey extension to the rear of their existing house consisting of 37sqm of additional floor area; the increase in size of an existing rainwater soakaway; together with all associated site works all

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22150

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  (I) The construction of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling; (ii) A new window on the eastern side of the existing dwelling; (iii) The provision of a new on-site waste water treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211480

• 4 Oct 2021N/a

  for a single storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling, and the provision of a new on site waste water treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211421

• 28 Jan 2021N/a

  for the demolition of an existing outhouse and for a new single storey extension to the rear of their existing house consisting of 37sqm of additional floor area; the increase in size of an existing soakaway; together with all associated site works all at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2190

• 20 Nov 2018N/a

  of a detached domestic shed/store, constructing a two-storey type extension to the rear of an existing dormer bungalow type dwelling, and all associated ancillary site-works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 181400

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Downings South.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Downings South.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2620 (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 Downings South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Downings South · Dún Ing Theas

Area

1,923,321 m² (192.33 ha, 475.26 acres)

Civil parish

Downings, and its townlands

Barony

Clane

Electoral division

Downings, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Downings electoral division: 3,091 people in 1,014 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Donore, Downings North, Goatstown, Moods, Newtowndonore

Placenames

Downings South 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.