Lipstown Upper

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lipstown Upper, from 14 m² to 160,484 m² (16.05 ha, 39.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Narraghmore, Kildare · 67 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Narraghmore, Kildare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Narraghmore, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Narraghmore, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Nov 2025Conditional

  the construction and completion of two detached one and half story houses (on existing foundations and sub floors previously constructed on site), single storey domestic garages for each site, installation of a secondary effluent treatment system on each site and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Permission for the construction and completion of two detached one and half story houses (on existing foundations and sub floors previously constructed on site), single storey domestic garages for each site, connection to public foul sewer system for each site and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2561268

• 11 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the change of use of existing integrated garage to residential accommodation including removal of garage door with replacement patio door and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560917

• 15 Nov 2024Refused

  for (i) refurbishment and alteration works to convert existing grain store into artist’s workshop, (ii) the erection of 12no. accommodation pods, (iii) extension to, and change of use of, existing machinery shed to provide 2no.guest rooms and reception/waiting room, iv) extension to existing car park to provide 26no.additional spaces including provision for electric car charging, (v) upgrade and relocation of existing wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works to facilitate same

  Permission, 14 homes · Kildare County Council, 2461206

• 8 Nov 2024N/a

  for (i) refurbishment and alteration works to convert existing grain store into artist’s workshop, (ii) the erection of 12no. accommodation pods, (iii) extension to, and change of use of, existing machinery shed to provide 2no.guest rooms and reception/waiting room, iv) extension to existing car park to provide 26no.additional spaces including provision for electric car charging, (v) upgrade and relocation of existing wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works to facilitate same

  Permission, 14 homes · Kildare County Council, 2461186

• 20 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a detached one and a half storey dormer dwelling with single storey element (internal dormer layout not included in this application - for future use only), single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, connection to public foul sewer and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of permission for the construction of detached one and a half story dormer dwelling with single storey element (internal dormer layout not included in this application - for future use only), single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system ( to replace the original proposal to connect to public foul sewer system) and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460695

• 18 Jul 2024N/a

  for the construction of a detached one and a half story dormer dwelling with single storey element (internal dormer layout not included in this application - for future use only), single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, connection to public foul sewer and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460686

• 14 Dec 2023Conditional

  the erection of single storey type house with wastewater treatment system with percolation area and isolation horse stables to serve the existing equestrian yard and upgrading of the existing field entrance to form a recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360481

• 20 Oct 2023Conditional

  for existing single storey detached bungalow as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23956

• 13 Sept 2023Conditional

  for new pedestrian entrance from public footpath and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360207

• 6 Sept 2023N/a

  new pedestrian entrance from public footpath and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360186

• 9 Jul 2023Refused

  the erection of single storey type house with wastewater treatment system with percolation area and isolation horse stables to serve the existing equestrian yard and upgrading of the existing field entrance to form a recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360016

• 28 Feb 2023Refused

  the erection of single storey type house with wastewater treatment system with percolation area and isolation horse stables to serve the existing equestrian yard and upgrading of the existing field entrance to form a recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23179

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  the construction of a garage/hobby workshop, including landscaping and boundary treatments, and all associated site and development works, and services

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23120

• 30 May 2022Refused

  (Extension of Duration from previous planning file 17/392) to erect an agricultural fodder shed

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 22648

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  for (a) Single storey lean to roof to side of existing two storey public house and (b) Planning permission for relocation of existing entrance to car park and all associated site development works at

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211284

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  a storey and a half dwelling, detached domestic garage, alterations to existing agricultural entrance to provide a new combined/double entrance onto the L8012 road (The Orchard Road), septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20347

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  a part single storey with part two storey dwelling, domestic garage, recessed residential entrance, wastewater treatment system and raised sand polishing filter and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191404

• 30 Oct 2019N/a

  change of use from exiting outbuildings (adjacent to existing public house) to guest house accommodation, associated internal and external alterations to accommodate bedrooms to ground and first floor levels and all ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191203

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  existing dormer domestic garage as constructed with permission for change of use of existing domestic garage to a 2 bedroom family unit and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17644

• 11 Apr 2017Conditional

  to erect an agricultural fodder shed

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17392

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 Lipstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD032-063 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as the cropmark of a circular area (est. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a back-filled fosse. A modern field boundary overlies the enclosing fosse NE-E-SSE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2014

Architectural heritage

• Monument, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron armorial plaque, c.1880, with inscribed armorial motifs having cartouche surround. Set in boundary wall at side of road.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1870, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to front, single-bay single-storey lean-to end bay to north-east and two-bay two-storey lower return to rear to north-west. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to porch and to return; lean-to to end bay). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Ruled and lined. Rendered course to eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 9-pane fixed-pane windows to ground floor. 6/6 timber sash windows to remainder. Elliptical-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Overlight and overpanel. Road fronted. Gravel verge to front. Enclosed grounds to rear to north-west.

• Water pump, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1905, comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with fluted spout, fluted ogee-domed cap and 'cow-tail' handle having open finial. Now disused. Sited in an island site to centre of village. Group of four concrete piers, c.1950, to boundary with iron railings. Freestanding cut-stone memorial stone, c.1998.

• , 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former courthouse, c.1830, possibly originally three-bay retaining early fenestration with single-bay two-storey lean-to lower return to rear to north. Now in residential use. Hipped roof with slate (lean-to to return). Sections of replacement artificial slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Painted. Channelled piers to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening. Rendered block-and-start doorcase. Timber panelled door. Fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Iron railings to forecourt to front.

• Surgery/clinic, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Tudor-style former dispensary, c.1900, with pointed-arch door opening to centre and single-bay single-storey return to rear to east. Renovated and extended, c.2000, comprising two-bay two-storey return block to rear to east forming L-shaped plan. Now in residential use. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Square rooflights, c.2000, to rear to east. Overhanging timber eaves with paired brackets. Iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Painted (unpainted to return and to additional return block). Square-headed window openings. Cut-stone sills and architraves to front (west) elevation with hood moulding over. Concrete sills to remainder. 3/3 timber sash windows. Pointed-arch door opening in recessed niche. Rendered surround. Moulded rendered architrave with lintel. Timber panelled door. Decorative fanlight with moulded rendered surround. Set back from road. Gravel verge to front. Enclosed landscaped grounds to rear to east.

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 Lipstown Upper, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lipstown Upper.

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 Lipstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Lipstown Upper · Baile an Liopaigh Uachtarach

Area

895,350 m² (89.54 ha, 221.25 acres)

Civil parish

Davidstown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Narraghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

867 people lived in 257 households in the Narraghmore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybarney, Castlefarm, Hillfarm, Killeen, Lipstown Lower, Narraghmore

Placenames

Lipstown 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.