Loughnacush
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 77.4 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,588 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughnacush, from 2,097 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 481,036 m² (48.1 ha, 118.87 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Loughnacush 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
23 Jul 2024Conditional
for single storey house, domestic garage, new site entrance, landscaping, effluent treatment plant and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460705
26 Aug 2023Conditional
***SID ***ABP Application - Proposed further Development of the Drehid Waste Management Facility. Granted by ABP 06.09.2024. ABP-317292-23
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23317292
16 Jun 2020Conditional
(a) the erection of a two-storey type house, (b) garage/fuel store for domestic use, (c) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with Tertiary treatment in a Sand polishing filter percolation area and all associated site works and (d) new vehicular entrance and access drive way and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20610
20 Dec 2017Refused
STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (ABP Decision) Increase in waste material at disposal facility at Drehid Waste Management Facility
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17300506
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 Loughnacush.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughnacush.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughnacush.
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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughnacush.
- 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 Loughnacush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Loughnacush
- Area
- 774,347 m² (77.43 ha, 191.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Windmill Cross, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Windmill Cross electoral division: 1,225 people in 392 households; 87% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyshannon, Coolcarrigan, Dreenan, Kilkeaskin, Parsonstown, Timahoe West
- Placenames
- Loughnacush 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.