# Greenmount, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 494,218 m² (49.42 ha, 122.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,801 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathmore, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/rathmore.md - Barony: Naas North - Electoral division: Rathmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,175 people lived in 367 households in the Rathmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/26053 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80621 - Centre: latitude 53.205428, longitude -6.538707 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenmount, from 202 m² to 161,435 m² (16.14 ha, 39.89 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4863480: 161,435 m² (16.14 ha, 39.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4863480.md - Parcel 1089599: 120,551 m² (12.06 ha, 29.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089599.md - Parcel 2501937: 36,405 m² (3.64 ha, 9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501937.md - Parcel 1053721: 32,281 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053721.md - Parcel 1027145: 16,644 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027145.md - Parcel 2501938: 13,751 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501938.md - Parcel 1021266: 13,580 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021266.md - Parcel 4650564: 13,212 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650564.md - Parcel 1075885: 10,247 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075885.md - Parcel 1059859: 10,023 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059859.md - Parcel 1056447: 9,334 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056447.md - Parcel 2501939: 8,181 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501939.md - Parcel 1059341: 5,782 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059341.md - Parcel 1014382: 5,618 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014382.md - Parcel 1034729: 4,801 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034729.md - Parcel 2650942: 4,366 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650942.md - Parcel 1013802: 4,308 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013802.md - Parcel 5154328: 4,226 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5154328.md - Parcel 1018281: 3,100 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018281.md - Parcel 1040834: 3,034 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040834.md - Parcel 4441168: 2,454 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4441168.md - Parcel 1031500: 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031500.md - Parcel 6033433: 2,287 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6033433.md - Parcel 4650554: 1,919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650554.md - Parcel 1089961: 1,649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089961.md - Parcel 1071117: 1,161 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1071117.md - Parcel 1058012: 902 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058012.md - Parcel 1090970: 463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090970.md - Parcel 5065162: 202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5065162.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Greenmount 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 18 Jun 2026, Kildare County Council 2660664: N/a. Retention. I Dermot Browne intend to apply for Retention Permission and Planning Permission for an Agricultural Development at Greenmount, Rathmore, Naas, Co. Kildare. The items for which Retention Permission is sought are as follows: • The construction of a livestock shed (459m2, 6.6m high) for the seasonal housing of sheep during the lambing period and adjacent concrete sheep handling pen, setback 398m from the public road. • 2 No. ancillary Storage Container Units, Storage Container Unit 1 (17m2, 2.7m high) and Storage Container Unit 2 (23m2, 2.8m high). • Placing of a concrete yard to a pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen (186m2) and the retention of this pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen bounding the public road south-west of the site and including the construction of a compacted stone surface farm access lane to the above-mentioned livestock shed. The items for which Planning Permission is sought are as follows: • The partial relocation of existing compacted stone surface farm access lane to facilitate the placing of new landscaped screening. • Additional landscape screening to the south-west and south of the livestock shed and surrounding yard.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660664/0 - 16 Jun 2026, Kildare County Council 2660654: N/a. Retention. • The construction of a livestock shed (459m2, 6.6m high) for the seasonal housing of sheep during the lambing period and adjacent concrete sheep handling pen, setback 398m from the public road. • 2 No. ancillary Storage Container Units, Storage Container Unit 1 (17m2, 2.7m high) and Storage Container Unit 2 (23m2, 2.8m high). • Placing of a concrete yard to a pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen (186m2) and the retention of this pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen bounding the public road south-west of the site and including the construction of a compacted stone surface farm access lane to the above-mentioned livestock shed. The items for which Planning Permission is sought are as follows: The partial relocation of existing compacted stone surface farm access lane to facilitate the placing of new landscaped screening. Additional landscape screening to the south-west and south of the livestock shed and surrounding yard. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660654/0 - 2 Jul 2025, Kildare County Council 2560734: Conditional. Retention. for amendments previously granted under ref 961432: As constructed 1st floor with 4 velux windows to rear roof and windows to side gable at 1 st floor level. As constructed garage/fuel store and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560734/0 - 28 Apr 2023, Kildare County Council 23455: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a detached single storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, ancillary landscape screening, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23455/0 - 10 Jan 2023, Kildare County Council 2318: Refused. Permission. the construction of a detached single storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, ancillary landscape screening, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2318/0 - 23 Dec 2022, Kildare County Council 221540: N/a. Permission. Permission is sought for the construction of a detached single storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakways, ancillary landscape screening , recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/221540/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Greenmount. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenmount. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenmount. ## 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 Greenmount, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2907, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2907.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/greenmount.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/greenmount.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/greenmount.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Greenmount 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) - Caureen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/caureen.md - Punchestown Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/punchestown-lower.md - Rathmore West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathmore-west.md - Redbog: https://everytownland.com/kildare/redbog.md - Wolfestown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/wolfestown.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/greenmount - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/greenmount