# Laraghbryan East, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Laraghbryan, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare; in Irish Láithreach Briúin Thoir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,121,205 m² (112.12 ha, 277.06 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential / Infill, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Laraghbryan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/laraghbryan.md - Barony: Salt North - Electoral division: Maynooth, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Maynooth electoral division: 18,729 people in 6,110 households; 65% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25428 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80795 - Centre: latitude 53.384037, longitude -6.616888 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laraghbryan East, from 133 m² to 714,182 m² (71.42 ha, 176.48 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1016029: 714,182 m² (71.42 ha, 176.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016029.md - Parcel 1055732: 119,739 m² (11.97 ha, 29.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1055732.md - Parcel 1016799: 63,931 m² (6.39 ha, 15.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016799.md - Parcel 1016796: 59,770 m² (5.98 ha, 14.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016796.md - Parcel 1018399: 45,760 m² (4.58 ha, 11.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018399.md - Parcel 2679807: 24,273 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2679807.md - Parcel 5197513: 14,168 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5197513.md - Parcel 1040667: 10,749 m² (1.07 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040667.md - Parcel 3907919: 3,924 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907919.md - Parcel 1057937: 3,399 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057937.md - Parcel 1088960: 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1088960.md - Parcel 1088963: 2,911 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1088963.md - Parcel 1065991: 2,611 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065991.md - Parcel 1034644: 2,497 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034644.md - Parcel 1019851: 2,488 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1019851.md - Parcel 6193448: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6193448.md - Parcel 2943131: 1,975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2943131.md - Parcel 1022319: 1,806 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022319.md - Parcel 1056292: 1,410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056292.md - Parcel 1015601: 1,347 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015601.md - Parcel 1053525: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053525.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential): Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare; 8 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/MaynoothandEnvironsJointLocalAreaPlan2025-2031/ - O1 Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land): Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare; 5 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/MaynoothandEnvironsJointLocalAreaPlan2025-2031/ - P1 Agriculture: Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/MaynoothandEnvironsJointLocalAreaPlan2025-2031/ - S1 University Zone 2 (Education): Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/MaynoothandEnvironsJointLocalAreaPlan2025-2031/ - S5 Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/MaynoothandEnvironsJointLocalAreaPlan2025-2031/ - R4 Phase 2 New Residential (Transport-Oriented Development) (Strategic Residential Reserve): Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/MaynoothandEnvironsJointLocalAreaPlan2025-2031/ - G4 Open Space and Amenity (Active open space): Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/LocalAreaPlans/CurrentLocalAreaPlans/MaynoothandEnvironsJointLocalAreaPlan2025-2031/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 31 May 2019, Kildare County Council 19622: Conditional. Permission. A new Maynooth University Students Centre across two building blocks with a shared external space contained under a new canopy. The development consists of two, two-storey buildings with screened mechanical plant at roof level, providing circa 3700m2 new floor space. External works will include a new access road and culvert, canopy structure, localized hard and soft landscaping, bicycle storage, the installation of a water attenuation tank, upgrade works to existing switch rooms and the demolition of a single storey blockwork storage unit at lands to the west of the existing Phoenix Building on the North Campus,. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19622/0 - 11 Aug 2017, Kildare County Council 17913: Conditional. Permission. the construction of new 2.4 metre high perimeter fencing to the north, west and south boundaries of 17 hectares of land to the west of the existing north campus including all associated site and ancillary works. Existing boundary treatment between lands to remain in situ. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17913/0 - 7 Jul 2017, Kildare County Council 17797: N/a. Permission. the construction of a new 3 metre high perimeter fencing to the north, west and south boundaries of 27 hectares of land to the west of the existing North Campus including all associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17797/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal, site code 002103 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD005-008: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-008----. On level, improved pasture, c. 130m N of a medieval church (KD005-009002-) and graveyard (KD005-009003-), with an enclosure site (KD005-021----) c. 200m to the E. Indicated as 'Ca. Rs.' (Castle Residence) on Taylor's 1783 map of County Kildare, but not recorded on the 1st (1838) or current (1939) eds. of the OS 6-inch map. In 1985, some loose dressed stones, a few with mortar attached, (the result of recent dumping according to the landowner), were noted together with some low linear earthworks running N-S across the field and visible on a 1986 aerial photograph (CUCAP APE 8) (SMR file). There is no longer any visible surface trace of these features. However, traces (noted in 1985) of the fosse of a possible enclosure (KD005-021----) do survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 - KD005-009001: Ecclesiastical site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-009001-. The site was an early monastic foundation associated with St Senan (possibly of Scattery Island, Co Clare). The death of its abbot Glaindibur is recorded in AD 767 and its oratory was burnt and plundered by the 'men of Meath' in AD 1036 and again in AD 1040. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 396). Because of it's location on a major route way, it was, according to McSweeney (1940, 125), a monastic rest house for pilgrims and clerics passing E and W. A medieval church (KD005-009002-) and graveyard (KD005-009002-) are likely to stand on, or close to, the early monastery, of which no visible surface trace survives; except for a small portion of a possibly associated enclosure (KD005-021----) c. 250m to the NE. According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 15-16) Archdall records the death of the First Earl of Kildare at Laraghbryan in AD 1316. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 - KD005-009002: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-009002-. The church is mentioned in Strongbow's confirmation of the Glendalough possessions as belonging to Glendalough in 1173, and was later subservient to St. Mary's Maynooth (KD005-016----) with which it was united in 1518. According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 15-16) Archdall records the death of the First Earl of Kildare at Laraghbryan in AD 1316. It was in good condition in 1615, and in 1630, although by the latter date the chancel was 'uncovered' (IHR 1941a, 47-8; IHS, 98). Stands to SW of centre of a graveyard (KD005-009003-). A fairly well-preserved, but completely ivy-clad, rectangular structure (int. dims. L 24.9m E-W; Wth 5.9m) built of coursed, limestone blocks (walls av. T 0.8m) with roughly dressed quoins, comprises a nave (int. dims. L 14m; Wth 5.9m) and slightly narrower chancel (int. dims. L 10.9m; Wth 5.35m), with a later, three-storied, rectangular tower (int. dims. L 3.5m E-W ; Wth 2.5m: wall T 0.6m) abutting the W gable wall. The nave can be entered through either of two, almost opposing, opes near the W ends of the N (Wth 3.5m) and S walls (Wth 3.3m), which are probably enlarged original doorways. The nave is lit by one window in the N wall and two in the S wall; all tall, pointed-arched and set in broadly splaying, round-arched embrasures and probably 14thC in date, and plaster survives on the wall faces. The slightly narrower chancel has a modern burial vault inserted into its E end where the original E window is robbed-out. It is lit by one window in the N wall and three in the S, one of which is now blocked-up, all similar to those in the nave. There are two doorways in the N wall. The more easterly one (Wth 1.5m) appears to be a later insertion into an older window ope opposite a similar ope in the S wall, while the more westerly one (Wth 1.8m) is almost opposite a third doorway (Wth 1.3m) which also appears to be a later insertion into an older window ope into which a single light, cusped ogee-headed window head with hood-moulding, and concave jambs (15thC?) was previously inserted, in the S wall. The later tower is entered from the nave through a low, narrow (Wth 0.87m) round-headed doorway. The ground-floor is lit by a loop in the SW angle from where a lintelled intramural stairs leads to first-floor level which is lit by a loop in the N and S walls and contains a wall-cupboard in the N wall. A spiral stairs in the NW angle leads to second-floor level which is lit by a loop in the SW angle. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 - KD005-009003: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-009003-. On level, improved pasture c. 50m N of the Lyreen River, possibly on the site of an Early Christian monastery (KD005-009001-), with traces of a possibly associated enclosure (KD005-021-) c. 250m to the NE, and c. 200m S of a possible castle site (KD005-008----). A large, sub-rectangular roadside graveyard (dims. L c. 90m E-W; Wth c. 80m N-S) is enclosed by a well-built mortared stone wall. It contains a medieval church (KD005-009002-) to SW of centre. Legible burial markers date from the 18th century to the present-day. Archaeological monitoring (Licence no. 97E0390) of the excavation of a gas pipeline trench along the road verge immediately S of the graveyard revealed previously disturbed ground but no archaeological deposits. (www.excavations.ie) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 - KD005-021: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-021----. In open, level, improved pasture c. 200m E of a possible castle site (KD005-008----) and c. 250m NE of an early monastic site (KD005-009001-), a medieval church (KD005-009002-) and a graveyard (KD005-009001-). Visible on a 1966 aerial photograph (CUCAP APE 8) as a short, curving arc of shallow fosse. It may mark the E limits (NE-E-SE) of a large enclosure (traceable L c. 60m; Wth 5.5m; D 0.4m), more likely to have been associated with possible pre-Norman monastic activity at nearby Laraghbryan (KD005-009001-) than with the possible castle (KD005-008----) to the W. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 - KD005-036: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-036----. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 44m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 6 November 2018 - KD005-037: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-037----. Cropmark of circular-shaped trivallate ditched enclosure/barrow (approx. ext. diam. 30m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 6 November 2018 - KD005-041: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD005-041----. Cropmark of enclosure (approx. diam. 39m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Matthew Mullen Reynolds. Date of upload: 21 November 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Jackson's Bridge and 14th Lock, bridge, 1790–1795, Regional interest, registry number 11900505, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11900505. Three-arch cut-stone road bridge over canal, railway line and stream, dated 1793, with ashlar voussoirs, cut-stone date stone plaque, and single-arch pedestrian bridge to north over stream. Coursed cut-stone walls. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Three segmental arches of varying form and height. Ashlar voussoirs. Squared rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Single round arch to north. Cut-stone voussoirs. Squared rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited spanning Royal Canal to north, Midland and Great Western Railway line to centre, and stream to south with pedestrian bridge to north providing access to tow path. Grass banks to canal, to railway line and to stream.Canal lock, c.1795, to north with cut-stone retaining walls having timber lock gates over with integrated pedestrian bridge and possibly retaining early mechanisms. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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; parts are made ground. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2833, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2833.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/laraghbryan-east.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/laraghbryan-east.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/laraghbryan-east.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Laraghbryan East 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) - Ballycurraghan: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballycurraghan.md - Collegeland: https://everytownland.com/kildare/collegeland.md - Crewhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crewhill.md - Laraghbryan West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/laraghbryan-west.md - Maws: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maws.md - Maynooth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maynooth.md - Maynooth South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maynooth-south.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtown-80941.md - Timard: https://everytownland.com/kildare/timard.md - Treadstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/treadstown.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/laraghbryan-east - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/laraghbryan-east