Herbertstown

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Herbertstown, from 53 m² to 678,700 m² (67.87 ha, 167.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Herbertstown 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  for a) proposed single storey dwelling, b) provision of domestic garage, c) upgrading of existing site entrance to form double combined entrance, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561470

• 16 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the change of house and garage type and location of house and garage on site from previously granted under planning file 21/1359 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560931

• 13 Aug 2025N/a

  for the change of house and garage type and location of house and garage on site from previously granted under planning file 21/1359 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560926

• 18 Jul 2024Conditional

  for a new 3 bedroom Single storey dwelling, on site wastewater treatment system, using existing recessed vehicle entrance and right of way to access the site, along with all associated site development, facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460682

• 15 Aug 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new shared double recessed entrance to serve previously approved houses (2 No.) under 21/1359 and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22999

• 31 Jan 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a new single storey dwelling house, new on site wastewater treatment system, new vehicular access and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2292

• 4 Jan 2022N/a

  for the construction of a new single storey dwelling house, new on site wastewater treatment system, new vehicular access and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221

• 22 Sept 2021Conditional

  the construction of two rural houses: House no. 1 is a one and half storey detached house with single storey element, single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system with shared access road and entrance utilising existing family entrance all associated site works. House no. 2 is a one and half storey detached house with single storey element, single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system with shared access road and entrance utilising existing family entrance all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 211359

• 10 Sept 2021N/a

  for the construction of a one and half storey detached house, single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system with shared access road and entrance utilizing existing family entrance, all associated site works for Hannah McDonnell. Permission for the construction of a one and half storey detached house, single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system with shared access road and entrance utilizing existing family entrance, associated site works for Bobbie McDonnell,

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 211296

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  Retention for detached dormer dwelling as built, including deviations from planning ref. 98/600 involving an increase the floor area of 53 sq.m and minor alterations to the built form. Also, ancillary development including 2 no. ancillary outbuildings as built. The two storey agricultural store/stables (464sq.m) is used for equestrian use. The two storey studio/office building (176.6sq.m) is used as a home office and artisan studio. All associated site works including landscaping. Permission is sought for a new covered manure pit (15.75 sq.m). As amended by significant further information

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 181334

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• KD023-018 Church
  Description

  The rectory of Herbertstown which was one of several properties surrendered to the Crown in 1580 by Nicholas White, master of the rolls, including; 'the site of the priory of the B.V.M. of Connall (KD023-016----), co. Kildare, lands of Great Connall, Old Connall, Lowestowne, Clonings, Oldeton, Walsheston, Ballymanny, and Little Marisheton, the rectories of Great Connall, Laditon (KD023-002----), Lowistowne (KD023-013----), Harberteston, Dowdingestowne, Clonings, Walsheston, and Oldton' (Nicholls 1994, 508). In 1552 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries the estate of the priory of the B.V.M. of Connall (KD023-016----) including the rectory of Herbertstown was leased by the Crown for 21 years to Edward Randolf (Nicholls 1994, 208). Rectory located in the parish of Ladytown which today consist of a simple rectangular, ivy clad structure (int dims. 8.9m E-W; 4.7m N-S) built of roughly coursed limestone rubble (wall T 0.8m). The central and S half of the E gable wall along with the adjoining SE angle has collapsed, while the rest of the walls survive standing to full height. There are two opposed doorways in the N and S walls towards the W end, with two-centred external arches and flat-headed rear arches, The doorway in the S wall has a shallow, roofless porch. Inside the doorway there is evidence of drawbar slots in the embrasure of both doorways. There is a plain lintelled slit ope or window in the W wall, and similar opposed opes or windows in the N and S walls located off centre to E. There is a small flat-headed wall cupboard or aumbry in SW angle of church. A row of corbels which supported a wooden floor inside W end of church are visible along internal face of W gable at first floor level. The presence of the corbels suggests that there was a two storey priests residence at W end of church. There is also evidence of holes in the W end of the N and S walls which appear to have supported some form of wooden structure in the ground floor of the priests residence. There is evidence of well preserved internal lime plaster on inner face of the W wall of the church. Some years ago two medieval fonts (KD023-018002-/018004-) were removed from the church and are now on display in the graveyard of nearby St. Peters R. C. Church (KD024-066----/067----) (Gibson 1990, 60). Medieval church ruins described by Harold Leask in 1938 as following; ‘the remains, which stand in a graveyard not enclosed from the fields, are those of a small, very plain church, about 35 feet [10.6m] by 21 feet [6.4m] in external dimensions. Its walls are 2 feet 9 inches [0.85m] thick and are built in rough flag-like masonry. The east wall and south east quoin are ruined to the foundations. There are two doorway opposite to one another in the south and north walls and traces of a shallow porch to the former. The doorways have rough arches and the other openings; windows in the west, north and south walls are simple loops with lintelled heads. The building is otherwise featureless’ (H.G. Leask 01/06/1938). See attached sketch plan by H.G. Leask and second plan by Anna Brindley 24/05/1986, photos of church courtesy of William Gibson Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 April 2019

• KD023-018001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a very slight rise in generally open mixed tillage and pasture. They ivy-covered ruins of Herbertstown Church (KD023-018----) stands in centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard. On the first ed. OS 6-inch map the church is shown standing in E quadrant of L-shaped graveyard with burial ground to W and N of church. Today the graveyard consists of an overgrown, roughly rectangular-shaped area (c. 33m N-S; c. 25m E-W) enclosed by wooden fencing with no visible grave markers. According to local information, skeletal remains can often be seen in upcast soil from rabbit burrows surrounding the church (pers. comm. Paddy Coleman 18/04/2019). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 April 2019

• KD023-018002 Font
  Description

  A square-shaped granite baptismal font (dims. L 0.53m; Wth 0.55m; H 0.19m) with a circular basin (top diam. 0.4m; base diam. 0.32m; D 0.14m) and central drain-hole (0.04m) with moulding (H 0.05m; diam. 0.42m; T 0.02m) running around base of font which sat on top of a circular column (diam. 0.38m) now lost. Removed from Herbertstown Church (KD023-018----) some time before 1990 by local parishioners and placed in the grounds of St. Peter’s R. C. Church, Two-Mile-House (Gibson 1990, 60). Cross referenced with KD024-066----. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by William Gibson Date of revised upload: 23 April 2019

• KD023-018003 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of large square-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 107m NE-SW x 110m NW-SE) immediately W of Herbertstown Church (KD023-018001-) and graveyard (KD023-018002-) is clearly visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 28/06/2018. The enclosing element of the enclosure on the S side is not visible on Google Earth aerial imagery. Traces of linear field boundaries can be seen running off NW side, the antiquity of these field boundaries is uncertain and they may be the remains of post-1700 field boundaries. According to local information the field adjacent to the cropmark was known locally as the 'Castle Field' (pers. comm. Paddy Coleman, 18/04/2019). This feature may be the remains of an enclosure belonging to Herbertstown Castle which is mentioned in 1584/5 when a Crown Inquisition found that the prior of Great Connall abbey (KD026-003---) 'had an annual rent of 10s. arising from the lands and tenements which were held in fee by Edmond Goulding, late of Harberteston, viz., a castle, 6 messuages, 6 gardens, 120 acres of arable land, 4 of meadow, 100 of pasture and moor, and a great warren in Herberteston annual value, £8; also 60 acres of arable land in Knocksellet [Silliothill], annual value, 60s.; 7 gardens in Dowdingeston, annual value,3s.6d.; and an annual chief rent of 2s. out of the ancient town of Killussie [Killashee], all held from the crown' (Archdall 1876, 266; Comerford 1883 vol.2, 292). In 1623 an inquisition into the estate of John Goulding recorded that his estate consisted of a castle in Herbertstown with 100 acres arable along with lands in Silliothill (Cal. inq. post mortem, 42 Car. I). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Kildare recorded that there is 'upon the lands of Herbertstowne one Castle wch. is valued to be worth thirty pounds sterl.' (Simington 1952, 131). This survey recorded that 'Jeofry ffay of Herbertstowne' who is listed as 'Irish Papist' and owner of the lands of Herbertstown (ibid.). See attached Google Earth image taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by William Gibson Date of upload: 08 April 2019

• KD023-018004 Font
  Description

  A large bowl shaped stone (ext. diam. 0.64m; rim T 0.1m; H 0.36m) with circular basin (top diam. 0.44m; base diam. 0.17m; D 0.21m) and no drainage hole may represent the remains of an early medieval font. It is too large to represent the remains of a medieval water stoup and not the right shape for a bullaun stone. It is possible that this plain unperforated bowl shaped stone was used as a medieval mortar rather than as a baptismal font and may have belonged to the adjoining Herbertstown Castle (KD023-018003-) or was used for domestic purposes of the residential priest living inside Herbertstown Church. Such a function has been suggested for several large undecorated bowls which lacked a central drainage hole and were initially identified as fonts (Roe 1968, 12). The stone was removed from Herbertstown Church (KD023-018----) some time before 1990 by local parishioners and placed in the graveyard of St. Peter’s R. C. Church, Two-Mile-House (Gibson 1990, 60). Cross-referenced with KD024-067---. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by William Gibson Date of upload: 23 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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_2689 (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 Herbertstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Herbertstown · Baile Hoirbeaird

Area

2,001,026 m² (200.1 ha, 494.46 acres)

Civil parish

Greatconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Ladytown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ladytown electoral division: 990 people in 317 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clownings, Corbally, Dowdingstown, Greatconnell, Lewistown, Newland North

Placenames

Herbertstown 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.