Pipershall
Townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 71.4 ha
- 177 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,817 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pipershall, from 350 m² to 636,977 m² (63.7 ha, 157.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Pipershall 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
26 Aug 2026N/a
a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling along with alterations to the existing rear extension and for the upgrading of the existing septic tank to a treatment plant with soil polishing filter and all associated site works to our property which is within the curtilage of the “Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mercy” (B24-26) which is a Protected Structure
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660960
1 Jul 2026N/a
for a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling along with alterations to the existing rear extension and for the upgrading of the existing septic tank to a treatment polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660729
26 Jun 2026N/a
a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling along with alterations to the existing rear extension and for the upgrading of the existing septic tank to a treatment plant with soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660696
22 Aug 2025N/a
subdivision of existing dwelling for use as two number dwellings with a shared access and for the upgrading of existing septic tank and existing treatment plant to a shared oakstown treatment plant and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560656
21 May 2024Conditional
for a detached dormer dwelling, detached domestic garage / car store, on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460445
13 Oct 2023N/a
the subdivision of existing dwelling for use as two number dwellings and for the upgrading of existing septic tank and existing treatment plant to two number oakstown treatment plants and soil polishing filters and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360345
25 Mar 2022Conditional
of an existing 16.8sqm single story conservatory extension to existing dwelling and an existing single storey 31.32sqm detached garage to the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site development works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22288
4 Feb 2022N/a
of an existing 16.8sqm single story conservatory extension to existing dwelling and an existing single storey 31.32sqm detached garage to the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site development works.
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2297
17 Sept 2019Conditional
construction of a two bedroom storey and a half dwelling, effluent treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191035
2 Sept 2019N/a
the construction of a two bedroom dormer bungalow, effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19985
21 Dec 2017Conditional
a slatted, cattle shed with a straw lie back and a manure pit with all associated facilities and site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 171463
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 Pipershall.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pipershall.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pipershall.
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 high, 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_2944 (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 Pipershall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Pipershall
- Area
- 714,462 m² (71.45 ha, 176.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas North
- Electoral division
- Rathmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmore electoral division: 1,175 people in 367 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crosscoolharbour, Crosscoolharbour (Co. Wicklow), Hempstown (Co. Wicklow), Hempstown Commons, Redbog, Slatequarries
- Placenames
- Pipershall 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.