Lowtown

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowtown, from 686 m² to 480,693 m² (48.07 ha, 118.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Lowtown 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.

• 22 Apr 2025N/a

  for construction of two storey house, garage and recessed entrance (as per KCC DRG E-3639-5) waste water treatment system including all associated site works to include a bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2581

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  of the garage building, the hardstanding to the rear and side of the site and the secondary service access gate, the rescinding of conditions 2(b) and 3 attached to planning application Pl. Ref: 01/1602 and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2461088

• 18 Oct 2024N/a

  for: retention of the garage building, the hardstanding to the rear and side of the site and the secondary service access gate, the rescinding of conditions 2(b) and 3 attached to planning application pi. ref: 01/1602 and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2461072

• 19 Jul 2023Refused

  Will consist of; Proposed storey and a half / single storey type dwelling with domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23799

• 7 Jul 2023N/a

  Will consist of; proposed storey and a half / single storey type dwelling with domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23755

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  for retention permission and permission for development The development consists of the retention of a 24m long x 24m wide x 7m high agricultural storage shed; the construction of a 30.5m long x 18.5m wide x 10m high agricultural storage shed; and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2296

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lowtown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lowtown.

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 Lowtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Lowtown · Baile Ló

Area

3,029,144 m² (302.91 ha, 748.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilberry, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Kilberry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilberry electoral division: 587 people in 208 households; 77% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlereban North, Cloney, Kilberry, Portree (Co. Laois), Vicarstown (Cosby) (Co. Laois), Vicarstown (Dodd) (Co. Laois)

Placenames

Lowtown 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.