Ploopluck

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ploopluck, from 1,930 m² to 410,332 m² (41.03 ha, 101.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Industry and Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Naas Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  sought to construct a single storey dwelling, detached garage, connection to mains water, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22596

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ploopluck.

Recorded monuments

• KD019-017 Burial
  Description

  A cemetery of pit burials was discovered in an esker during gravel extraction in 1935. The recorded burials comprised: (1) an inhumation accompanied by a bowl food vessel; (2) an inhumation accompanied by a bowl food vessel; (3) a crouched inhumation accompanied by a bowl food vessel; (4) an unaccompanied inhumation. A fifth burial containing the inhumations of four individuals accompanied by a bowl food vessel and an urn sherd from this site may not be directly associated with the cemetery (Raftery 1951, 150). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2724 (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.

No address of the register names Ploopluck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ploopluck

Area

620,811 m² (62.08 ha, 153.41 acres)

Civil parish

Naas, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Naas Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Naas Urban electoral division: 26,306 people in 8,866 households; 71% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Jigginstown, Osberstown

Placenames

Ploopluck 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.