Laraghbryan West
Townland in the civil parish of Laraghbryan, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare; in Irish Láithreach Briúin Thiar
- Area
- 47.5 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 1,802 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laraghbryan West, from 398 m² to 459,839 m² (45.98 ha, 113.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C7Research and Technology (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Jun 2022Conditional
sought for infill single storey porch area and front sitting room area, with change of roof profile to parapet style with 2 roof windows. Single storey extension to the rear, with window to side elevation
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22755
20 May 2022N/a
sought for: Infill single storey porch area and front sitting room area, with change of roof profile to parapet style with 2 roof windows. Single storey extension to the rear, with window to side elevation
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22601
10 Sept 2020Conditional
A. Retention of garage/ storage unit to the rear of the existing house. B. Link utility corridor room. C. Conversion of previous garage to games room at the side of the property. D. Change from hip front to gable front. E. 3 dormer windows on the front slope. F. Conversion of previous attic space to accessible non-habitable storage space
Retention · Kildare County Council, 201035
12 Jan 2017Conditional
a new pitched roof over the front door entrance replacing the existing sliding doors, an extension to the side of the house accommodating more living space, a rear extension that extends the existing kitchen, new skylights in the roof and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1716
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Laraghbryan West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Laraghbryan West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laraghbryan West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2796 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Laraghbryan West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Laraghbryan West · Láithreach Briúin Thiar
- Area
- 475,443 m² (47.54 ha, 117.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Laraghbryan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt North
- Electoral division
- Maynooth, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Laraghbryan East, Maws, Timard
- Placenames
- Laraghbryan West 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.