Hartwell Upper

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hartwell Upper, from 58 m² to 692,527 m² (69.25 ha, 171.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Kill, Kildare · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Industry and Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Kill, Kildare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Serviced Sites (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Kill, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the importation of clean topsoil and subsoil in the subject site of 7.2 hectares in order that the site can be rendered suitable for planting native broadleaf forestry

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 25106

• 11 Apr 2025N/a

  Extension of Duration: for the importation of clean topsoil and subsoil in the subject site of 7.20 hectares in order that the site can be rendered suitable for planting native broadleaf forestry. It is proposed to improve approximately 3.80 ha of the site and it is estimated that this will require approximately 128,000 cubic metres of greenfield, inert soil and stone. The applicant also proposes to install a temporary site office and canteen, wheelwash, portaloo and carry out all ancillary site works. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from the Kildare County Council. Revised by significant information consisting of; an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) was submitted

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 2574

• 17 Jan 2025Conditional

  for the construction of extensions to the front and sides of the existing building and all associated site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Additional existing temporary structures have been included on the revised Site Layout Plan

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560027

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  for the construction of extensions to the front and sides of the existing building and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461386

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  for 1. Retention for demolition of 45sq/m ground floor rear extension. 2. Permission for construction of a 98sq/m ground floor extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated siteworks. 3. Permission for construction of a new front boundary wall and automatic gate at the existing site entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460960

• 13 Sept 2024N/a

  for 1. Retention for demolition of 45sq/m ground floor rear extension. 2. Permission for construction of a 98sq/m ground floor extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated siteworks. 3. Construction of a new front boundary wall and automatic gate at the existing site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460901

• 30 May 2023N/a

  of habitable extensions to the rear of the existing dwelling house and all ancillary works. Retention of storage units and awnings in the curtilage of the property and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23583

• 29 Mar 2023Conditional

  existing buildings to include truck repair/maintenance, repair maintenance area, offices, storage buildings and fuel storage tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23316

• 24 Feb 2023N/a

  This development will consist of retention planning permission for existing buildings to include truck repair/maintenance, repair maintenance area, offices, storage buildings and fuel storage tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23166

• 3 May 2022Conditional

  development at the subject site of 0.346 hectare at Hartwell Upper, Kill, Co. Kildare. The development will consist of planning permission for a concrete recovery operation for the acceptance and processing for re-use, and temporary storage prior to transporting off-site of concrete material at Hartwell Upper, Kill, Co. Kildare. It is proposed to accept up to 17,000 tonnes per annum of material. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from Kildare County Council.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22502

• 16 Jul 2021Conditional

  of the existing dwelling along with retention permission of the existing site entrance and all existing site boundaries including all associated site development works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211044

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  to amend a permitted development Reg. Ref. 06/631 (which permitted the change of use of an existing dwelling to a creche). The proposed amendments seek to revise condition 8 of Reg. Ref. 06/631, which stipulated the maximum number of children in any one day shall not exceed 29 children, to stipulate a maximum number of children in any one day not to exceed 48 children

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201266

• 26 Jul 2019Conditional

  the importation of clean topsoil and subsoil in the subject site of 7.20 hectares in order that the site can be rendered suitable for planting native broadleaf forestry. It is proposed to improve approximately 3.80 ha of the site and it is estimated that this will require approximately 128,000 cubic metres of greenfield, inert soil and stone. The applicant also proposes to install a temporary site office and canteen, wheelwash, portaloo and carry out all ancillary site works. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from the Kildare County Council. Revised by significant information consisting of; an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) was submitted.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19840

• 7 Jul 2017Conditional

  to extend and convert existing building into a creative retreat centre and art psychotherapy clinic which consists of, in the existing building, a kiln ceramic room, w.c., lobby and wash area and on the ground floor in the extension a hall, store, individual room, kitchen and group room and on the first floor in the extension an office with five Velux windows and to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and to construct a new treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17788

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 Hartwell Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD019-015 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In 1540, Hartwell was a possession of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin, when it was, 'Held from the late abbot by Thomas Longe per. ind. 24 Nov. 1536 for 15 years; rent 40.s. 4.d., the farmer to maintain the castle and houses and discharge all customs and charges' (White 1943, 39-41).The OSL (Herity 2002, 23 (65)) record that, 'In Upper Hartwell townland there was an old castle, the remains of which, were converted into a farmhouse', and Fitzgerald (1915-7, 494) states that, 'What remains of Hartwell Castle is incorporated in Mr. J. B. Malone's former residence, and from the outside is not noticeable. Inside it will be noticed that the walls are thick, that the lower storey is vaulted and that the staircase is in the thickness of the wall'. Stands near the W-foot of a low spur overlooking the small, NW-flowing, Hartwell River immediately to the W, in an area of good quality, mixed pasture and tillage. The partially levelled and altered remains of a very large area (dims. L 90m ESE-WNW; Wth 46m) are defined by a mortared bawn wall (int. H 4m; T 0.9m) of undressed, roughly coursed shale blocks and flags on the N and E and along the E-half of the S, and by an outer fosse (Wth 3-4m) on the N. A small, square, rubble-filled, projecting corner tower (ext. dims. L 3.9m; Wth 3.7m; int. H 2m; wall T 0.7m) survives at the W end of the bawn's N wall. Later stables and farm buildings abut the inner faces of the bawn walls. The enclosed area is bisected on its short axis by the castle which comprised two, inline buildings which were formerly joined by a central archway. Of the N building, only its gently battered N gable wall survives, to two storeys. It's outer face is abutted by the foundations of a small, D-shaped 'turret' (diam. 1m; L 2.3m). The S building is a long, two-storied, four-roomed structure with two vaulted ceilings, perpendicular to one another, over ground-floor level (ext dims. L 22m ESE-WNW; Wth 8m). A square-headed doorway near the S end of the E wall gives access to a very small lobby. Beyond, to W, a small chamber (int. dims. L 4.3m; Wth 3.3m) is lit by a double-splayed loop in the S, gable wall and by a possibly inserted, square-headed window in the W wall. To the N, off the lobby, is a much larger room (int. dims. L 14.5m; Wth 6m), lit by a now blocked loop at the S end of the W wall and by a small square window in the N gable wall. This room is subdivided by a later wall and its E wall is pierced by later doorways. Off the lobby, to the S, a narrow intramural stairs gives access to the two-roomed, first-floor level, into which later windows were inserted when it was used as a farm house. Conroy (2007, 187-93) suggests the site was a monastic grange belonging to St Thomas' Abbey, from possibly as early as the late-14th c. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD019-015001 Bawn
  Description

  Stands near the W-foot of a low spur overlooking the small, NW-flowing, Hartwell River immediately to the W, in an area of good quality, mixed pasture and tillage. The partially levelled and altered remains of a very large area (dims. L 90m ESE-WNW; Wth 46m) are defined by a mortared wall (int. H 4m; T 0.9m) of undressed, roughly coursed shale blocks and flags on the N and E and along the E-half of the S, and by an outer fosse (Wth 3-4m) on the N. A small, square, rubble-filled, projecting corner tower (ext. dims. L 3.9m; Wth 3.7m; int. H 2m; wall T 0.7m) survives at the W end of the N wall. Later stables and farm buildings abut the inner faces of the walls. The enclosed area is bisected on its short axis by the castle (KD019-015----). Conroy (2007, 187-93) suggests the site was a monastic grange belonging to St Thomas' Abbey, from possibly as early as the late-14th c. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD019-078 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 21m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke. Date of upload: 06 March 2019

• KD020-011 Urn burial
  Description

  In 1936, digging operations in a sand ridge uncovered evidence of burials, but the discovery was only reported and investigated by the NMI in 1939. Material subsequently collected by the NMI actually comprised evidence of two burials from two different locations: unburnt human remains of early medieval date (KD020-010----) and the remains of a prehistoric burial. This comprised fragments (subsequently restored) of a small bowl food vessel (H 0.1m; base diam 0.06m; rim diam. 0.15m) decorated with a panel of conjoined lozenges, a panel of shapes like stretched hides, panels of both horizontal and vertical impressed lines, and four impressed grooves of circular form. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 1, 218-21) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Hartwell Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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_2873 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Hartwell Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Hartwell Upper

Area

932,078 m² (93.21 ha, 230.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kill, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Kill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,565 people lived in 1,843 households in the Kill electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arthurstown, Broguestown, Burntfurze, Forenaghts Great, Hartwell Lower, Morristown, Newtown

Placenames

Hartwell Upper 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.