# Irishtown Upper, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Straffan, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,120,533 m² (112.05 ha, 276.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,876 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Straffan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/straffan.md - Barony: Salt North - Electoral division: Straffan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Straffan electoral division: 2,513 people in 758 households; 83% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25450 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80661 - Centre: latitude 53.306082, longitude -6.654387 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Irishtown Upper, from 151 m² to 7,476 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4815247: 7,476 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4815247.md - Parcel 5623605: 3,865 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5623605.md - Parcel 5427470: 3,330 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5427470.md - Parcel 1021491: 2,154 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021491.md - Parcel 5595976: 1,599 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5595976.md - Parcel 5623617: 1,231 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5623617.md - Parcel 5286582: 720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5286582.md - Parcel 5427472: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5427472.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Irishtown Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 4 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21803: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the provision of a new detached, part single storey and part two storey, dwelling house with detached two-car domestic garage. The development will also include the provision of a new single storey commercial building for the operation of a dog kennel business by the occupants/owners of the proposed domestic dwelling, with five associated parking spaces for staff and customers. The development will also include the widening of the existing gated access to the site, the provision of a new gate and piers, the provision of new waste water treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site and landscaping works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21803/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Irishtown Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Irishtown Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Irishtown Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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_2758, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2758.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/irishtown-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/irishtown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/irishtown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Irishtown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Capdoo: https://everytownland.com/kildare/capdoo.md - Irishtown Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/irishtown-lower.md - Ladycastle Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ladycastle-lower.md - Ladycastle Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ladycastle-upper.md - Longtown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/longtown.md - Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathmore-81051.md - Richardstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/richardstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/irishtown-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/irishtown-upper