# Goatstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Downings, barony of Clane, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,378,112 m² (137.81 ha, 340.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,504 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Downings, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/downings.md - Barony: Clane - Electoral division: Downings, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,091 people lived in 1,014 households in the Downings electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25768 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80575 - Centre: latitude 53.27363, longitude -6.755662 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goatstown, from 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 539,645 m² (53.96 ha, 133.35 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1026897: 539,645 m² (53.96 ha, 133.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026897.md - Parcel 6217341: 530,403 m² (53.04 ha, 131.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6217341.md - Parcel 1075937: 49,169 m² (4.92 ha, 12.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075937.md - Parcel 1053584: 47,946 m² (4.79 ha, 11.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053584.md - Parcel 3844102: 41,384 m² (4.14 ha, 10.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3844102.md - Parcel 1081273: 17,559 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081273.md - Parcel 5127467: 8,805 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5127467.md - Parcel 1034685: 8,202 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034685.md - Parcel 4850031: 5,901 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4850031.md - Parcel 1031170: 5,677 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031170.md - Parcel 1026942: 4,897 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026942.md - Parcel 4900971: 4,668 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900971.md - Parcel 4850029: 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4850029.md - Parcel 1031451: 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031451.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Goatstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Aug 2020, Kildare County Council 20935: Conditional. Permission. The erection of a new milking parlour with a dairy and plant rooms, a roofed handling area, a cubicle shed and, a meal bin and improvements to existing entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20935/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Goatstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Goatstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Goatstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2651, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2651.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/goatstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/goatstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/goatstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Goatstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Curryhills: https://everytownland.com/kildare/curryhills.md - Donore: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donore.md - Downings North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/downings-north.md - Downings South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/downings-south.md - Killybegs: https://everytownland.com/kildare/killybegs.md - Killybegs Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/killybegs-demesne.md - Landenstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/landenstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/goatstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/goatstown