# Halfmiletown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castledermot, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 94,241 m² (9.42 ha, 23.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,445 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castledermot, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/castledermot.md - Barony: Kilkea and Moone - Electoral division: Castledermot, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,853 people lived in 664 households in the Castledermot electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% 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/25017 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80627 - Centre: latitude 52.903718, longitude -6.857937 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Halfmiletown, from 73 m² to 64,291 m² (6.43 ha, 15.89 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4939971: 64,291 m² (6.43 ha, 15.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4939971.md - Parcel 1053888: 23,187 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053888.md - Parcel 3387570: 4,445 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3387570.md - Parcel 1027279: 2,245 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027279.md - Parcel 4894844: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4894844.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Halfmiletown 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 Halfmiletown 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) - KD040-003: Cist, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD040-003----. Short rectangular cist uncovered and subsequently reburied in 1915; said only to have contained broken stones (JKAS 1915, 163; Waddell 1970, 119). Date of upload: 8 September 2016 - KD040-047: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD040-047----. Visible on a GSI aerial photo (S 58, 57) as the cropmarks of some 5 small enclosures, possible ring-ditches. A cist burial (KD040-003----) was discovered c. 200m to the NW. Date of upload: 8 September 2016 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Halfmiletown. ## 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 Halfmiletown, 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_2577, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2577.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/halfmiletown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/halfmiletown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/halfmiletown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Halfmiletown 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) - Barnhill West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/barnhill-west.md - Dairyfarm: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dairyfarm.md - Prumpelstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/prumpelstown-lower.md - Woodlands East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/woodlands-east.md - Woodlands West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/woodlands-west.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/halfmiletown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/halfmiletown