Littlerath

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Littlerath, from 687,160 m² (68.72 ha, 169.8 acres) to 687,160 m² (68.72 ha, 169.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Littlerath 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Littlerath in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Littlerath.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-028 Cross - Wayside cross
  Description

  The original, roadside location of the cross, as shown on the latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map. This cross, together with a second, nearby, roadside-cross (KD014-042002-), was subsequently moved to Sherlockstown Graveyard (KD014-043003-), where its present location is designated KD014-042001-. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-030 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  At the NE foot of a low ridge in improved, mixed tillage and pasture. A low, circular, earthen mound (diam. 9m; H c. 1m), has a shallow depression (D 0.2-0.4m) on its upper surface, and is girdled by a shallow fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.15m), with a causeway at SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Littlerath.

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

About 1 in 5 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_2760 (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.

No address of the register names Littlerath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Littlerath

Area

687,160 m² (68.72 ha, 169.8 acres)

Civil parish

Bodenstown, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Bodenstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Blackhall, Daars North, Daars South, Ladyhill, Prospect

Placenames

Littlerath 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.