Loughtown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughtown, from 3,037 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 330,465 m² (33.05 ha, 81.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Loughtown 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.

• 2 Jun 2023N/a

  changes to internal walls to allow for reconfiguration of internal layout; conversion of existing attic floor accommodation into habitable accommodation to house 3 bedrooms; new dormer to the rear of dwelling to serve the proposed layout; changes to existing openings position and sizes; 1 no rooflight to north-west roof pitch; 1 no rooflight to north-east roof pitch; 1 no. rooflight and solar panels to south-east roof pitch; change of roof finish; along with front canopy protecting front door access; along with relocated external terraces; all to allow for forming a 4 bedroom dormer bungalow dwelling with an office, open plan living area, separate sitting room & service room. Planning Permission is also sought for conversion of garage into a single storey one bedroom family flat, to be connected with the main dwelling through proposed single storey flat roof extension; along with 2 no. rooflights to existing pitched roof and 1 no. rooflight to proposed flat roof; changes to external finishes; along with external east and west facing terraces with pergola and planters; along with all associated site and landscaping works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23600

• 15 Jul 2022N/a

  of an ancillary garden building to the rear of the existing dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22866

• 30 May 2022Conditional

  an existing single storey detached garage and fuel store with a floor area of 48m2 all to the west of the existing house together with all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22650

• 28 Sept 2018Refused

  (1) Construct a two storey house; (2) Separate double garage; (3) Install a secondary sewage treatment plant with pressurised percolation area; (4) Relocate the existing farm entrance approximately 45 metres to the west; (5) Construct a new vehicular entrance to serve the proposed house; (6) All ancillary groundworks associated with the above

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181194

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 Loughtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughtown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Loughtown, 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_2717 (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 Loughtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Loughtown

Area

946,551 m² (94.66 ha, 233.9 acres)

Civil parish

Clonshanbo, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Balraheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,559 people lived in 663 households in the Balraheen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonshanbo, Hodgestown, Kilnamoragh North, Painestown

Placenames

Loughtown 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.