Elmhall
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghcumper, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 55.2 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 3,025 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Elmhall, from 268 m² to 178,743 m² (17.87 ha, 44.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Elmhall 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Apr 2026N/a
of: 3no all-weather football pitches with perimeter fencing, perimeter walking track, floodlighting, additional car parking and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660359
29 Mar 2026N/a
3no all-weather football pitches with perimeter fencing, perimeter walking track, floodlighting, additional car parking and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660327
12 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of a new 2 storey 4 bed detached house with garage, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211018
2 Dec 2020Refused
a new 2 storey 4 bed detached house with garage, treatment system, percolation area and all associated works,
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201466
4 Sept 2020Conditional
retention of existing detached shed for domestic use and permission for the construction of a first floor extension over existing single storey detached bungalow and all associated site works,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201008
18 Aug 2020Refused
the construction of a new 2 storey 4 bed detached house with garage, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20924
20 Jul 2020N/a
the construction of a new 2 storey 4 bed detached house with garage, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20784
10 Jul 2020N/a
of existing detached shed for domestic use and PERMISSION for the construction of a first floor extension over existing single storey detached bungalow and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 20735
27 Feb 2019Conditional
(1) The removal of two existing 5-bar gates and post, closing of an existing vehicular access and gate opening, and (2) installation of a gate opening for vehicular access to existing site with single galvanized 5- bar gate, removal of existing trees / greenery and installation of post – and – rail fencing along the boundary between the site and Hazelhatch road.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19182
25 Jan 2019N/a
(1) The removal of two existing 5-bar gates and post, closing of an existing vehicular access and gate opening, and (2) Installation of a gate opening for vehicular access to existing site with single galvanised 5-bar gate, removal of existing trees/greenery and installation of post-and-rail fencing along the boundary between the site and Hazelhatch Road,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 1961
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Elmhall.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Elmhall.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Elmhall.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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_2938 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Elmhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Elmhall
- Area
- 552,301 m² (55.23 ha, 136.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghcumper, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt South
- Electoral division
- Donaghcumper, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balscott, Loughlinstown, Stacumny
- Placenames
- Elmhall 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.