# Gotham, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballaghmoon, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 864,706 m² (86.47 ha, 213.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,443 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballaghmoon, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ballaghmoon.md - Barony: Kilkea and Moone - Electoral division: Ballaghmoon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 223 people lived in 80 households in the Ballaghmoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/24905 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80583 - Centre: latitude 52.879948, longitude -6.915134 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gotham, from 176 m² to 811,332 m² (81.13 ha, 200.48 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1089347: 811,332 m² (81.13 ha, 200.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089347.md - Parcel 1027277: 45,498 m² (4.55 ha, 11.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027277.md - Parcel 1019077: 1,443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1019077.md - Parcel 1031720: 1,138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031720.md - Parcel 1065422: 176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065422.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gotham 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) No planning application touches the townland of Gotham in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD039-013: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-013----. Shown as an oval enclosure (est. ext. diams. c. 60m N-S; c. 40m E-W) on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map and as a raised oval area on the latest ed. (1909) of the map. In 1972 no visible surface traces survived, apart from a slight rise in the field (SMR file). Visible as a cropmark on Dr. Gillian Barrett's aerial photographs (GB90.BU.03 (1990) and GB91.DW.26 (1991)) which show the monument located in the SE quadrant of a second, much larger enclosure (KD039-013001-). (Barrett 2000, 87-106, Fig.12.; ibid 2002, 1-30, Plate 11; ibid 2006, 69-95, Fig.3.3.) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 December 2011 - KD039-013001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-013001-. Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990 and 15 July 1991. Aerial photographs (GB90.BU.03) and (GB91.DW.26) show the cropmark of a large curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. The cropmark of a second, smaller enclosure (KD039-013---- ) is also visible, in the SE quadrant of the large enclosure. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011 - KD039-048: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-048----. Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 15 July 1991. Aerial photographs (GB91.DW.21 and 22) show the cropmark of a rectangular enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing SW, possibly a moated site. Also visible in a 1995 aerial photo (GB95.FS.26) (Barrett 2002, 1-30; ibib 2006, 69-95) Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Gotham Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 11903908, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11903908. Three-arch rubble granite road bridge over river, c.1860, with triangular cut-waters, dressed stone voussoirs and rubble stone parapet walls. Rubble granite walls to abutments. Rubble stone parapet walls. Three segmental arches on dressed stone piers. Dressed stone triangular cut-waters to south. Dressed stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Lerr River with grass banks to river. ## 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 Gotham, 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_2509, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2509.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/gotham.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/gotham.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/gotham.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gotham 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) - Aghanure (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/aghanure.md - Dunmanoge: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dunmanoge.md - Lisbush: https://everytownland.com/kildare/lisbush.md - Monaclaudy: https://everytownland.com/kildare/monaclaudy.md - Newtownallen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtownallen.md - Oakpark or Painestown (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/oakpark-or-painestown.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/gotham - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/gotham