Kearneystown Upper

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Kearneystown Upper, from 403,719 m² (40.37 ha, 99.76 acres) to 403,719 m² (40.37 ha, 99.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Kearneystown Upper 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.

• 6 Aug 2025Conditional

  for construction of 2 storey, 3 bedroom dormer extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling in an angled layout, to include 3 bedrooms, living / kitchen / dining, bathrooms and utility room, internal modifications to existing single storey dwelling, and new wastewater treatment system and surface water soakaway as previously permitted in Kildare Co Co Planning Reg Ref: 2460022, landscaping and associated and ancillary site development works to facilitate the proposed development. Revised by Significant Further Information which shows that the location of current connection to a shared septic tank is outside of our red boundary line. This connection is due to be disconnected once the new development is completed. It is also shows replacement of 2 windows in bedroom number 4 with 2 oriel windows and a Velux type roof light

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560899

• 5 Aug 2025N/a

  for construction of 2 storey, 3 bedroom dormer extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling in an angled layout, to include 3 bedrooms, living/kitchen/dining, bathrooms and utility room, internal modifications to existing single storey dwelling, and new wastewater treatment system and surface water soakaway as previously permitted in Kildare co Co Planning Reg Ref:2460022, landscaping and associated and ancillary site development works to facilitate the proposed development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560885

• 17 Jan 2024Conditional

  for a dual level extension to the existing cottage to include 4 bedrooms, living, kitchen and dining accommodation in an L-shaped configuration with septic tank and all associated landscaping and infrastructural works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460022

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kearneystown Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kearneystown 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

About 1 in 20 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_2902 (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 Kearneystown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Kearneystown Upper

Area

430,076 m² (43.01 ha, 106.27 acres)

Civil parish

Lyons, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Donaghcumper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonaghlis, Commons Upper, Dangan, Kearneystown Lower, Lyons, Skeagh (Co. Dublin)

Placenames

Kearneystown 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.