Heath

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Heath, from 1,527 m² to 547,864 m² (54.79 ha, 135.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Heath 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.

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  is sought for i) Repositioning of the current front door to the eastern side of the dwelling, the removal of the flat roof on the current single storey extension and addition of a new matching pitch roof and infill extension to the rear to facilitate a new utility room. The lowering of the current cottage style windows and the addition of a new opaque matching window into the bathroom area into the front elevation. Removal of the western gable wall and insertion of a new fully glazed opening into the living/kitchen area with overhang roof canopy. ii) Relocation of the existing vehicle entrance. iii) Construction of a new workshop/garage to the rear of the property

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23378

• 11 Jan 2022Conditional

  for upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system and retention permission is sought for retention of extensions to side and rear of dwelling at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2211

• 23 Feb 2017Conditional

  Two storey dwelling, clearing of portion of existing forestry for roadway and dwelling, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17189

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 Heath.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-058 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.R.36) shows the cropmark of a single ring-ditch. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Heath House, farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1800, with single-bay single-storey end bay to south-west. Extended, c.1845, comprising two-bay two-storey block to north-east with single-bay single-storey end bay to north-east. Reroofed and refenestrated, c.1995. Gable-ended roofs. Replacement artificial slate, c.1995. Concrete ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995. Roughcast walls over rubble stone construction. Unpainted (ivy-covered to front elevation to south-east). Replacement roughcast, c.1995, to rear elevation to north-west with rendered strips to corners. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Two early 9/9 timber sash windows to rear elevation to north-west. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1985. Overlight. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Lawns to front. Detached multiple-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, dated 1844, to rear to north-west on a U-shaped plan about a courtyard. Reroofed, c.1980. Gable-ended roof on a U-shaped plan. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1980. Iron ridge tiles. Rendered coping to gables. Rendered chimney stack to gable to north-east with inscription. Cut-stone bellcote to gable to south-west. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Cut-stone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. Timber panelled shutters. Square-headed door openings. Timber panelled doors. Series of segmental-headed integral carriageways. Red brick piers to range to south-west. Red brick arches with cut-stone keystones. No fittings. Concrete courtyard. Freestanding single-bay single-storey rubble stone mill building, c.1845, to north on a circular plan. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. No fittings. Gateway, c.1845, to south comprising four cut-stone piers with cast-iron railings.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2453 (ZIP).

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

Name

Heath

Area

806,701 m² (80.67 ha, 199.34 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Grangemellon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grangemellon electoral division: 647 people in 227 households; 77% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardree, Ballyroe, Bray Lower, Grangemellon, Leinsterlodge

Placenames

Heath 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.