# Loughtown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonshanbo, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 946,551 m² (94.66 ha, 233.9 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,654 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonshanbo, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/clonshanbo.md - Barony: Ikeathy and Oughterany - Electoral division: Balraheen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25276 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80830 - Centre: latitude 53.344082, longitude -6.710398 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1053634: 330,465 m² (33.05 ha, 81.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053634.md - Parcel 1056393: 320,980 m² (32.1 ha, 79.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056393.md - Parcel 5073675: 134,613 m² (13.46 ha, 33.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5073675.md - Parcel 1014593: 90,420 m² (9.04 ha, 22.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014593.md - Parcel 1027156: 27,815 m² (2.78 ha, 6.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027156.md - Parcel 1018421: 9,418 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018421.md - Parcel 1066100: 8,654 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066100.md - Parcel 1015618: 7,229 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015618.md - Parcel 1031054: 3,201 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031054.md - Parcel 1068973: 3,180 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068973.md - Parcel 1034756: 3,095 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034756.md - Parcel 1040595: 3,082 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040595.md - Parcel 1042357: 3,037 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042357.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 2 Jun 2023, Kildare County Council 23600: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23600/0 - 15 Jul 2022, Kildare County Council 22866: N/a. Retention. of an ancillary garden building to the rear of the existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22866/0 - 30 May 2022, Kildare County Council 22650: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22650/0 - 28 Sept 2018, Kildare County Council 181194: Refused. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181194/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Loughtown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughtown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughtown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2717.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/loughtown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/loughtown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/loughtown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Loughtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonshanbo: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clonshanbo.md - Hodgestown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/hodgestown-80647.md - Kilnamoragh North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kilnamoragh-north.md - Painestown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/painestown-80986.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/loughtown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/loughtown