Halverstown

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Halverstown, from 5 m² to 280,421 m² (28.04 ha, 69.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Halverstown 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.

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  for (i) an increase in the total permitted intake of soil and stone and broken rock to the existing licensed soil recovery facility at Halverstown, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare (Planning Ref: 18/453), from 1.2 million tonnes to 2.06 million tonnes and (ii) an extension to the life of the existing facility of 3 years (to December 2029) in order to accommodate the additional soil and stone intake. These works, which are required to implement a revised backfilling and restoration scheme for the former sand and gravel pit will also provide for (i) continued shared use of existing, co-located site facilities, structures and infrastructure (including the site office, staff welfare facilities, weighbridge (with dedicated office), wheelwash, hardstand areas, fuel storage tanks and site access road); (ii) continued soil and stone intake at a rate of up to 300,000 tonnes per annum, of which no more than 95,000 tonnes (per annum) will be managed as waste; (iii) continued separation of any construction and demolition waste (principally concrete, metal, timber, PVC pipework and plastic) inadvertently imported to the facility, prior to removal off-site to authorised waste disposal or recovery facilities; (iv) continued use of a section of the existing concrete block curing shed as a waste inspection and quarantine facility; (v) continued environmental monitoring of noise, dust and groundwater for the duration of the site recovery and restoration activities and for a short period thereafter (and in accordance with current EPA waste licence requirements); (vi) continued temporary stockpiling of topsoil pending its re-use as cover material for final restoration of the site; and (vii) ultimate restoration of the modified final landform to native woodland and grassland habitats. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of this Planning Application. The proposed development requires a waste licence review from the Environmental Protection Agency

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460265

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  (i) establishment of an inert soil waste recovery facility to provide for the importation of approximately 1,200,000 tonnes of natural inert waste materials, principally excess soil, stone and / or broken rock to backfill the pit void to former ground level and improve lands currently in agricultural use. The development will be carried out on a phased basis and will be completed within 8 years; (ii) share use, with the existing Kilsaran concrete manufacturing and waste facilities, of existing site and services infrastructure including site office, staff welfare facilities, weighbridge (with dedicated office), wheelwash, hardstand areas, fuel storage tanks and site access; (iii) use of section of existing concrete block curing shed as a waste inspection and quarantine facility; and (iv) temporary stockpiling of topsoil pending re-use as cover material for final restoration of the site. The proposed development requires a waste licence from the Environmental Protection Agency. An Environmental Impact Statement (now referred to as an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIRA)) will be submitted

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18453

• 23 Mar 2018N/a

  (i) Establishment of an inert soil waste recovery facility to provide for the importation of approximately 1,200,000 tonnes of natural inert waste materials, principally excess soil, stone and/or broken rock to backfill the pit void to former ground level and improve lands currently in agricultural use; (ii) Shared use of existing site and services infrastructure including site office, staff welfare facilities, weighbridge (with dedicated office), wheelwash, hardstand areas, fuel storage tanks, and site access; (iii) Use of section of existing concrete block curing shed as a waste inspection and quarantine facility and (iv) Temporary stockpiling of topsoil pending re-use as cover material for final restoration of the site. The proposed development requires a waste licence from the Environmental Protection Agency. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the planning authority in connection with the application.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18308

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 Halverstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD028-054 Burial
  Description

  Three crouched inhumation burials were found in a gravel ridge: (1) a pit containing the contracted inhumation of a middle-aged adult female; (2) the crouched inhumation of a young adult male, facing E, accompanied by a bowl food vessel placed upright behind the skull, and (3) the crouched inhumation of an adult male, facing E, accompanied by an ox femur (Raftery 1940, 57-61). This area has been completely quarried. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 May 2013

• KD028-055 Cist
  Description

  In 1938, a short rectangular cist (L c. 0.6m; Wth c. 0.38m; H 0.46m) was found in a sand pit. It contained the cremated remains of an adult female, a foetus and three teeth of a year-old child. (Price 1938, 293-4; Waddell 1970, 119) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 May 2013

• KD028-089 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 30m x 40m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Outlined as an oval-shaped earthwork on the revised OS 6-inch map. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Halverstown.

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 moderately low, 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 Halverstown.

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 Halverstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Halverstown · Baile Halbhaí

Area

1,377,962 m² (137.8 ha, 340.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcullen

Electoral division

Kilcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcullen electoral division: 3,695 people in 1,256 households; 75% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calverstown, Cartersbog, Castlefish, Glebe South, Kilgowan, Moortown, Oldkilcullen, Yellowbogcommon

Placenames

Halverstown 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.