Longtown North

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longtown North, from 873 m² to 104,113 m² (10.41 ha, 25.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Longtown North 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.

• 15 Jun 2026Refused

  a) a two storey dwelling, (b) a single storey garage for domestic use, (c) an entrance to the public road, (d) installation of a secondary effluent treatment system with a raised percolation bed and (e) all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660648

• 8 Jun 2026N/a

  a) a two storey dwelling, (b) a single storey garage for domestic use, (c) an entrance to the public road, (d) installation of a secondary effluent treatment system with a raised percolation bed and (e) all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660608

• 7 Aug 2025Conditional

  for (A) the erection of 6 No. horse stables for the rearing and training of horses with a tackroom , rug room, dry feed store, (B) Hay storage shed with covered dungstead and effluent holding tank, (C) the erection of two storey type farm house with single storey element to side (south west) elevation, (D) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area, (E) garage / store for domestic use and (F) upgrading of the existing field entrance to form a recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560902

• 26 Apr 2025Conditional

  for change of house design, site layout and position; to that granted under Planning Reference 01/1211 also retention permission for existing Balmoral Wastewater system and planning permission for the construction of a new raised soil filter

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560436

• 12 Apr 2025N/a

  for change of house design, site layout and position; to that granted under Planning Reference 01/1211 also retention of existing Balmoral Wastewater system and planning permission for the construction of a new raised soil filter

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560387

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  A proposed bungalow, detached garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171072

• 6 Sept 2017Conditional

  (a) New single storey and storey and a half type dwelling to replace the existing cottage as a single family home on the overall landholding. Effluent treatment plant, domestic garage, modified site entrance (moved to the western boundary) and all associated site development works. (b) Change of use from existing single storey cottage dwelling to playroom and study use, the works include for the restoration of the original cottage and include removal of recent extensions to side and rear of the cottage as well as the construction of new opes to rear and side. The new use will be ancillary to the enjoyment of the new family home on the site

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171011

• 23 Jun 2017N/a

  proposed bungalow, detached garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17734

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 North.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Longtown North.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2683 (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 Longtown North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Longtown North · An Baile Fada Thuaidh

Area

502,053 m² (50.21 ha, 124.06 acres)

Civil parish

Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Clane

Electoral division

Downings, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Downings electoral division: 3,091 people in 1,014 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagappagh, Curryhills, Firmount West, Killybegs Demesne, Longtown Demesne

Placenames

Longtown North 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.