Martinstown
Townland in the civil parish of Cadamstown, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile Mháirtín
- Area
- 127.7 ha
- 316 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Martinstown, from 7 m² to 318,788 m² (31.88 ha, 78.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Apr 2026Conditional
the installation of a canopy to cover EV charging bays and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660454
19 Jan 2024Conditional
for 1) a one storey extension to the side and rear a one storey detached house, 2) one storey porch to front of house, 3) increase the size of windows and replace the front door with a window on the front elevation of the existing house, 4) relocate existing effluent treatment system (polishing filter to remain in it’s current location) and all associated siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460026
16 Jan 2024N/a
for 1) a one storey extension to the side and rear a one storey detached house, 2) one storey porch to front of house, 3) increase the size of windows and replace the front door with a window on the front elevation of the existing house, 4) relocate existing effluent treatment system (polishing filter to remain in it’s current location) and all associated siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460013
16 Jun 2023Conditional
consists of (A) the erection of a two storey type house, (B) garage for domestic use, (C) the installation of proprietary wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and (D) upgrading of existing farm entrance to a combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23663
9 Jun 2023Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, O'Reilly Oakstown BAF sewerage treatment system, recessed site entrance, and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23625
15 May 2023Conditional
retention of an existing single storey store room (83.4sq.m) to the side of existing single storey commercial unit and all associated site works.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 23517
17 Apr 2023N/a
of an existing single storey store room (83.4sq.m) to the side of existing single storey commercial unit and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 23397
19 Aug 2022Refused
the construction of a single storey dwelling house and detached garage. Oakstown BAF sewage treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221023
25 Jul 2022N/a
construction of a single storey dwelling house and detached garage, Oakstown BAF sewage treatment system, recessed site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22912
12 May 2021Conditional
sought for garage/fuel store for domestic use
Retention · Kildare County Council, 21646
23 Apr 2021Refused
the construction of a single storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, O'Reilly Oakstown BAF sewerage treatment system, recessed site entrance and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21541
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 Martinstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Martinstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Martinstown.
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 moderately low, 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_2531 (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 Martinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Martinstown · Baile Mháirtín
- Area
- 1,277,396 m² (127.74 ha, 315.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cadamstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Cadamstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cadamstown electoral division: 1,554 people in 460 households; 84% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Johnstown, Kilmorebrannagh, Newcastle (Co. Meath), Thomastown
- Placenames
- Martinstown 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.