Mylerstown
Townland in the civil parish of Harristown, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 98.8 ha
- 244 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,036 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mylerstown, from 195 m² to 171,729 m² (17.17 ha, 42.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Mylerstown 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
10 Feb 2025Conditional
for the construction of a detached part two-storey/part single-storey dwelling with a single-storey garage, with storage area. To create a new domestic entrance to create a shared domestic entrance with internal agricultural access to the rear. Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works, landscaping and ancillary site works and services. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: • Removal of 12m of hedgerow. • Relocate the entrance approximately 25m to the west which will reduce the length of the driveway. • Reduced site boundaries/area. • 1.2m wide access gate, to the rear of the garage, from the proposed site onto the family farm as a pedestrian access only for practical purposes only when walking or working on the farm. • Domestic Garage reduced in size to a max floor area of 40m2 with a maximum ridge height of 5m
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560109
26 Aug 2024N/a
the construction of a detached part two-storey/part single-storey dwelling with a single-storey garage, with storage area. To create a new domestic entrance to create a shared domestic entrance with internal agricultural access to the rear. Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works, landscaping and ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460827
23 Aug 2024N/a
for the construction of a detached part two-storey/part single-storey dwelling with a single-storey garage, with storage area. To create a new domestic entrance to create a shared domestic entrance with internal agricultural access to the rear. Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works, landscaping and ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460824
22 Aug 2024N/a
for the construction of a detached part two-storey/part single-storey dwelling with a single-storey garage, with storage area. To create a new domestic entrance to create a shared domestic entrance with internal agricultural access to the rear. Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system together with all associated site works, landscaping and ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460818
8 Mar 2021Conditional
Change of design to proposed dwelling and revisions to proposed site boundaries as previously granted under planning ref. 17/927. Minor alterations to previous design include; (a) increase in floor area (b) slight increase in ridge height to single storey element (c) alterations to proposed floor layouts and proposed elevations and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21283
26 Aug 2019Conditional
the erection of a milking parlour and collecting yard with slatted tank, cattle handling area, dairy, machine room, farm office, meal bin, concrete yards and ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19965
17 Aug 2017Conditional
A part single storey/ part two storey dwelling, detached garage, a waste water treatment system, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17927
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 Mylerstown.
Recorded monuments
- KD031-044 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. Visible on Apple Maps as the cropmark of two concentric fosses enclosing a roughly sub-circular area (estimated diameter c. 90m). Externally, further linear and curvilinear cropmarks of fosses may be the remains of an associated field system (pers. comm. C. Chambers, 25-06-2015). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22-12-2015
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1880, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey canted projecting bay to right and single-bay two-storey return to rear to north-west having single-bay two-storey flat-roofed projecting bay to rear elevation to north-west. Part refenestrated, c.2000. Hipped roofs with slate (half-octagonal to canted projecting bay). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.2000. Flat-roof to projecting bay to rear elevation. Materials not discerned. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 2/2 timber sash windows. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.2000, to projecting bay to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Side lights and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1880, to north-west with open front to north-east. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Open front to north-east with iron piers. Detached four-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1880, to north-west. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed openings. No sills. Timber fittings.
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 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 Mylerstown.
- 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 Mylerstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Mylerstown
- Area
- 987,557 m² (98.76 ha, 244.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Harristown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Harristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Harristown electoral division: 479 people in 158 households; 85% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boghall, Boherbaun Upper or Monapheeby, Clarey, Harristown Lower, Nurney
- Placenames
- Mylerstown 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.