Harristown Lower

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Harristown Lower, from 2 m² to 419,511 m² (41.95 ha, 103.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Harristown Lower 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.

• 18 Sept 2017Conditional

  To construct cattle shed to be served by slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 171044

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 Harristown Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD027-023 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (KD027-023001-) A densely ivy-clad rectangular structure (int. 18.7m E-W; 6.3m N-S) is built of irregularly coursed and mortared limestone. Most of the N wall and the E portion of the S wall are represented by the lowest courses only. Sections of the E and W gable walls are also robbed out, and no windows appear to survive. The entrance (Wth 1.25m), in the S wall towards the W end, has an external recessed limestone two-centered surround, and traces of a large wooden lintel on the inside. A small, 19th-century burial plot abuts the external face of the W gable wall. The interior contains a font (KD027-023002-), and several modern burials. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-023001 Graveyard
  Description

  On the crest of a low E-W pasture ridge. An almost square area (c. 50m E-W; c. 50m N-S) contains the ruins of a medieval church (KD027-023----) and a font (KD027-023002-). Burials occur both within the church and in the graveyard and date from the 18th to the 20th-century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-023002 Font
  Description

  In the ruins of a medieval church (KD027-023----) in a graveyard (KD027-023001-). A square granite basin (L 0.85m; Wth 0.85m) with a rounded upper surface (diam. 0.6m) contains a central depression (diam. 0.15m) which does not perforate the stone. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-024 Enclosure
  Description

  In a built up farmyard. Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 20m), but not recorded on the latest ed. (1939) of the map. No visible surface trace survived in 1987 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Anna L. Brindley 18-09-1987 Date of upload: 10 October 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Harristown Lower.

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

Name

Harristown Lower

Area

1,054,745 m² (105.47 ha, 260.63 acres)

Civil parish

Harristown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Harristown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Harristown electoral division: 479 people in 158 households; 85% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boghall, Boherbaun Upper or Monapheeby, Harristown Upper, Lenagorra, Mylerstown, Nurney, Walterstown

Placenames

Harristown Lower 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.