Lipstown
Lipstown is a townland in the civil parish of Narraghmore, barony of Narragh and Reban East, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 85.1 ha
- 210 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 22,622 m² (2.26 ha, 5.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lipstown, from 284 m² to 346,557 m² (34.66 ha, 85.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lipstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Aug 2023Conditional
a part single and part two storey training facility, a wastewater treatment system with percolation area, and all associated site development works necessary to facilitate the development
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360163
26 Apr 2021Conditional
(A) Extensions and alterations to existing dormer type house to include (B) Single storey sitting room extension to side of existing house. Single storey utility room, garage and store extension to side of existing house (this element replaces the existing shed to side which is to be removed). (C) Change of use of dormer floor level to 2no. bedrooms & bathroom (D) Modifications to window openings to front of existing house (E) New upgraded effluent treatment plant and percolation area (F) Upgraded recessed site entrance (G) All associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21580
4 Jul 2019Conditional
for single storey side sunroom extension to existing semi-detached single storey bungalow and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 19763
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 Lipstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lipstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lipstown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lipstown, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lipstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lipstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Lipstown
- Area
- 851,150 m² (85.12 ha, 210.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Narraghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Electoral division
- Inchaquire, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 230 people lived in 83 households in the Inchaquire electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybarney, Blackhall, Blackrath, Calverstown Little, Inchaquire, Lipstown Lower, Narraghmore
- Placenames
- Lipstown 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.