Longtown

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longtown, from 41 m² to 89,778 m² (8.98 ha, 22.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Longtown 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.

• 21 Apr 2026Conditional

  mounting of approximately 51.5m2 of solar panels at ground level for domestic use, and all associated ancillary site-works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660432

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the reconfiguration, refurbishment including limited demolition works to an existing single storey dwelling, the demolition of a single storey garage, the de-commissioning of an existing septic tank, the construction of a new single storey extension and the construction of a single storey shed, new waste treatment plant and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560843

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  for a single storey garden room to the rear of the existing dwelling to include a new home office, gym and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2573

• 3 Oct 2022Conditional

  A single storey extension to the side and front of the existing dwelling to include new home office, gym, internal alterations and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221191

• 22 Dec 2017Refused

  Permission to remove historical sterilisation condition attached to Planning Reference 83/1442, permission for the construction of a detached one and a half storey house, single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171492

• 18 Aug 2017Refused

  the construction of a detached one and a half storey house, single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17934

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 Longtown.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-096 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped ring-ditch (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 28 May 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Longtown, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2800 (ZIP).

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

Name

Longtown

Area

258,103 m² (25.81 ha, 63.78 acres)

Civil parish

Straffan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Straffan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,513 people lived in 758 households in the Straffan electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baybush, Irishtown Lower, Irishtown Upper, Ovidstown, Richardstown

Placenames

Longtown 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.