Loughlinstown
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghcumper, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 100.3 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 2,855 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughlinstown, from 103 m² to 191,470 m² (19.15 ha, 47.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Loughlinstown 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
17 Jul 2026Conditional
for alterations to previously approved planning application reg. ref no. 06/1441 and 12/939 to consist of internal alterations and reconfiguration works to amalgamate two existing semi-detached, single-storey, 2-bedroom dwelling units into one 4-bedroom community house. Permission is also sought for a single storey extension to the rear of the existing with revised elevational treatment and all associated site works to connect to the existing foul and surface water system on site, associated external works and landscaping
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660824
7 Apr 2026N/a
of: 3no all-weather football pitches with perimeter fencing, perimeter walking track, floodlighting, additional car parking and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660359
29 Mar 2026N/a
3no all-weather football pitches with perimeter fencing, perimeter walking track, floodlighting, additional car parking and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660327
27 Jan 2025Conditional
for a two storey rear extension to existing nursing home building to provide 2 No. additional bed spaces; Internal alterations on existing ground and first floor to provide 6 No. additional bed spaces; Internal alterations on ground floor of existing village centre building; Minor alterations to nursing home and village centre building facades; All associated site works and landscaping
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560056
16 Jan 2025N/a
for two storey rear extension to existing nursing home building to provide 2 No. additional bed spaces; Internal alterations on existing ground and first floor to provide 6 No. additional bed spaces; Internal alterations on ground floor of existing village centre building; Minor alterations to nursing home and village centre building facades; All associated site works and landscaping
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560024
10 May 2023Conditional
the demolition of 3no. derelict former dwellings within the compound of the site and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23492
22 Sept 2021Conditional
for the construction of a new vehicular entrance to Elm House and all associated site works at
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211358
23 Apr 2020Conditional
modifications to previously approved permission Kildare County Council Ref. 19/185 comprising: omission of previously approved single storey extension to the rear of the existing nursing home, alterations to internal layout at ground floor and first floor level to provide for an additional 4 No. extra bed spaces from previously approved 8 No. additional bed spaces; plus demolition of existing front entrance lobby, construction of new single storey entrance lobby and office rooms and minor alterations to existing facades
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20415
27 Feb 2019Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing nursing home together with the modification and alteration to internal layout at ground floor and first floor level to provide for an additional 8 No. extra bed spaces; reconfiguration of internal layout to the existing village centre building; provision of external signage with associated changes to existing elevations, provision of paving together with associated site service and development works, including works to the existing on-site wastewater treatment system in order to facilitate the proposed development
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19185
17 Dec 2018N/a
construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing nursing home together with the modification and alteration to internal layout at ground floor and first floor level to provide for an additional 8 no. extra bed spaces; reconfiguration of internal layout to the existing village centre building; provision of external signage with associated changes to existing elevations, provision of paving together with associated site service and development works, including works to the existing on-site wastewater treatment system in order to facilitate the proposed development.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181525
3 Jan 2018Conditional
a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works using the existing entrance onto the Loughlinstown Road at rear of
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 184
21 Nov 2017Conditional
Extension of Duration of Planning File Ref. 12/250 - of alteration and refurbishment works to Elm House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, a protected structure and provision of further modifications including demolition of unauthorised return, reinstatement of roadside stone wall and wrought iron pedestrian gate, reversion of single dwelling unit with family flat (from 3 units), completion of wastewater treatment system and sundry other modifications to facilitate.
Extension of duration, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171300
3 Jul 2017Conditional
alterations to existing dwelling, construction of a detached garage and ancillary site works. The alterations to the dwelling consist of a two-storey dormer extension to the north-east/rear of the dwelling and associated alterations to the existing elevations. The site boundary shall also be modified
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17778
26 Jun 2017Conditional
of attic storey and re-aligned roof at single storey detached house within the curtilage of Elm Hall House (A Protected Structure),
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17741
20 Jun 2017Refused
for a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works using the existing entrance onto the Loughlinstown Road at the rear of
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17721
8 May 2017N/a
alterations to existing dwelling, construction of a detached garage and ancillary site works. The alterations to the dwelling consist of a two-storey dormer extension to the north-east/rear of the dwelling and associated alterations tot he existing elevations. The site boundary shall also be modified
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17517
26 Apr 2017N/a
a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works using the existing entrance onto the Loughlinstown Road at rear
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17479
18 Apr 2017N/a
alterations to existing dwelling, construction of a detached garage and ancillary site works. The alterations to the dwelling consist of a two-storey dormer extension to the north-east/rear of the dwelling and associated alterations to the existing elevations. The site boundary has been modified subsequent to the original planning application Ref. 98/677
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17428
23 Mar 2017N/a
a fully serviced dwelling house domestic garage and associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17313
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 Loughlinstown.
Recorded monuments
- KD011-076 Enclosure
Description
Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. In level tillage and visible on MapGenie, black and white, aerial imagery (1995) as a circular area (diam. c. 55m N-S) defined by the faint cropmark of a wide fosse (Wth c. 3-4m). The enclosure appears truncated between NE and S, with the fosse traceable S-W-NE. Also visible are faint traces of a second, narrower outer fosse (c. 5m outside) at SW. A high tension cable pole stands in the NE sector. These features are also visible in more recent Google Earth aerial imagery, 28-6-2018. See attached images: • KD011-076----_01 Snip of MapGenie (black and white) aerial image, 1995. • KD011-076----_02 Snip of Google Earth aerial image, 28-6-2018. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 27 July 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughlinstown.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2938 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Loughlinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Loughlinstown
- Area
- 1,002,913 m² (100.29 ha, 247.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghcumper, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt South
- Electoral division
- Donaghcumper, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyoulster, Balscott, Commons, Commons Lower, Dangan, Donaghcumper, Elmhall, Stacumny, Straleek
- Placenames
- Loughlinstown 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.