Pluckerstown
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeage, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 139.8 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 100
- registered freehold, median 3,163 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pluckerstown, from 14 m² to 152,736 m² (15.27 ha, 37.74 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
No zone of a development plan covers Pluckerstown 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
15 Jun 2026Refused
storey and a half type dwelling, access via existing family laneway, effluent treatment plant, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660646
21 May 2024Conditional
for correction of on-site boundaries forming the overall site. Alterations to site boundaries relate to those granted under Pl. Ref. No. 00/1653
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460444
13 May 2024N/a
for correction of on-site boundaries forming the overall site. Alterations to site boundaries relate to those granted under Pl. Ref. No. 00/1653
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460415
2 Aug 2023Refused
Single storey dwelling, effluent treatment plant and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23828
7 Nov 2022Refused
single storey dwelling, effluent treatment plant, and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221327
10 Jun 2022Refused
single storey dwelling, effluent treatment plant, and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22721
9 Feb 2021Refused
(a) erection of a single storey house on a family land holding, (b)erection of a garage for domestic use, (c) form new single entrance off existing road, (d)installation of a proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and (e) all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21142
26 Jan 2021N/a
(a) erection of a single storey house on a family land holding, (b) erection of a garage for domestic use, (c) installation of a proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and (d) all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2178
3 Sept 2018Refused
construction of a bungalow, domestic garage, Aswaflow effluent treatment system and percolation, and shared entrance
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181084
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 Pluckerstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pluckerstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pluckerstown.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pluckerstown.
- 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 Pluckerstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Pluckerstown
- Area
- 1,397,788 m² (139.78 ha, 345.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeage, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Rathernan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathernan electoral division: 683 people in 221 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloncumber, Feighcullen, Pluckerstown, Punchersgrange
- Placenames
- Pluckerstown 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.