Ladycastle Upper

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ladycastle Upper, from 809 m² to 175,257 m² (17.53 ha, 43.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ladycastle 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.

• 2 Jul 2026Refused

  for the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling, the provision of a new vehicular driveway connecting to an existing road entrance, a new waste-water treatment system and percolation area. The provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site development works. The change of use of the existing dwelling to agricultural use.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660736

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  for the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling, the provision of a new vehicular driveway connecting to an existing road entrance, a new waste-water treatment system and percolation area. The provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site development works. The change of use of the existing dwelling to agricultural use.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660724

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  for to renovate and extend existing dwelling house to include removing existing extension and construct new extension to rear and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561485

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  for a new 3 bedroom, storey and half type dwelling with a single storey elements, single storey domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system and recessed entrance, along with all associated site development, facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560350

• 28 Mar 2025N/a

  for a new-3 bedroom, storey and half type dwelling with a single storey elements, single storey domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system and recessed entrance, along with all associated site development, facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560327

• 5 Mar 2024Conditional

  for a new 3 bedroom, storey and half type dwelling with a single storey elements, single storey domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system and recessed entrance, along with all associated site development, facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460194

• 27 Feb 2024N/a

  for a new 3 bedroom, storey and half type dwelling with a single storey elements, single storey domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system and recessed entrance, along with all associated site development, facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460168

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  construction of a part two storey, 4 bedroom dwelling house, with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone gate piers to new driveway off the public roadway. Revised by Significant Further Information consisting of the refurbishment of the existing stone cottage to the west boundary of the site accommodating a home office, with WC, kitchenette and storage space.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23912

• 17 Jun 2022Refused

  the construction of a part two-storey, 4-bedroom dwelling house, with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone gate piers to new driveway off the public roadway

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22743

• 17 May 2022N/a

  sought for the construction of a part two-storey, 4-bedroom dwelling house with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone gate piers to new driveway off the public roadway

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22575

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the partial demolition of an existing single-storey block of accommodation and the addition of new, single-storey extensions to the south-east and north-west of the existing dwelling, including new waste water treatment system and all associated landscape and site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22495

• 4 Oct 2021Conditional

  for A) retaining alterations made to previously approved garage and a revised location on site to that previously approved under planning ref. 15/256. B) retaining alterations to previously approved vehicular entrance and a revised location on site to that previously approved under planning ref. 15/256 and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211424

• 24 Aug 2020Conditional

  (1) the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; (2) the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with attached stables and an on-site waste water system, (3) the provision of a new vehicular driveway and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20950

• 12 Aug 2020N/a

  (1) the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; (2) the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with attached stables and an on-site waste water system, (3) the provision of a new vehicular drive-way and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20899

• 13 Sept 2019N/a

  The demolition of an existing single storey dwelling, the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with stables, the provision of a new vehicular driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191023

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  The construction of a part two-storey, 4-bedroom dwelling house, with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone piers to new driveway off the public roadway.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181281

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, domestic shed and onsite waste water treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17830

• 20 Jun 2017Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, domestic shed, and an onsite waste water treatment system and ancillary works as revised by significant further information consisting of a revised house design

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17719

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 Ladycastle Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-059 Enclosure
  Description

  Digital Globe aerial photograph shows the cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure (approx. diam. 58m N-S) defined by a fosse. Cropmarks of plough-levelled field boundaries located 110m to SSE; chronological relationship uncertain. Some of these field boundaries are depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. These linear cropmarks may be the remains of a field system of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Colin Flynn Date of upload: 17 July 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ladycastle 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 Ladycastle Upper, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2801 (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 Ladycastle Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ladycastle Upper · Caisleán na Bantiarna Uachtarach

Area

1,254,519 m² (125.45 ha, 310 acres)

Civil parish

Whitechurch, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Bodenstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,091 people lived in 1,700 households in the Bodenstown electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Irishtown Upper, Ladycastle Lower, Rathmore, Shortwood, Turnings, Turnings Lower

Placenames

Ladycastle 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.