Fontstown Upper

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fontstown Upper, from 65 m² to 432,758 m² (43.28 ha, 106.94 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 Fontstown 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.

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  Planning permission to construct a two storey extension to the front of existing two storey dwelling, alterations to front façade and all associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660924

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  the erection of a dry store, concrete yards and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23604

• 25 May 2020N/a

  a detached bungalow of circa 126sq.m, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways and all associated site works. Agricultural shed of circa 361sq. m (which is attached to an agricultural shed which is exempt from permission), 3 no. detached containers for storage, surface water to soakaways, ancillary concrete hardstanding area and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20515

• 4 Mar 2020N/a

  for a detached bungalow of circa 126sqm, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways and all associated site works. Agricultural shed of circa 361sqm (which is attached to an agricultural shed which is exempt from permission), 3 No. detached containers for storage, surface water to soakaways, ancillary concrete hardstanding area and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20216

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 Fontstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a moderately steep SW-facing pasture slope. The E-half of an originally circular area (diam. 32m N-S) is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; Wth 4.6m; ext H 1.2m) N-E-SSE, with traces of a shallow outer fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 3m) surviving at NE and SE. The monument is truncated NE-SW by a road and by a broad driveway at S. The interior is lawned and hedged. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 October 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fontstown 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 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fontstown 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 Fontstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Fontstown Upper · Baile an Fhóntaigh Uachtarach

Area

1,322,806 m² (132.28 ha, 326.87 acres)

Civil parish

Fontstown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Fontstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fontstown electoral division: 456 people in 144 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fontstown Lower, Kilmead, Monatore, Oldgrange, Rathsillagh Lower, Rathsillagh Upper, Youngstown

Placenames

Fontstown 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.