Pollardstown

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollardstown, from 82 m² to 422,873 m² (42.29 ha, 104.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Pollardstown 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.

• 29 Mar 2024N/a

  of the following; 1. Construction of new recessed entrance from public road through existing site to access agricultural land contained in additional site 2. The removal of minimum hedgerow to accommodate same and relevant sightlines in both directions 3. and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460268

• 16 May 2023Refused

  revisions to previously granted planning ref. 19/1090, which include : a: Refurbishment of existing stable block to include a new front facade, b: Alterations to existing dwelling for use as staff quarters, which include the demolition of existing side annex and store to the rear, and revision to existing layout and elevations. C: Refurbishment of existing water walker and horse walker and construction of a new roof covering over same, d: Construction of a new covered horse walker, e: Construction of a new stable block to the east of the site, f: Construction of a new dormer style dwelling and new detached garden room, g: decommissioning of existing septic tank serving existing dwelling onsite and the installation of 2 no. wastewater treatments systems. The application also includes for the following works which were previously granted under planning ref. 19/1090: h: Elevational alterations to existing horse pool building, and minor internal alterations including the removal of a staff living compartment within the building; i: Horse gallops, including alterations to localized ground levels, and including associated gallop lighting consisting of pole mounted lights, each pole 8 metre high at 20 metre centres; j: Alterations to existing site entrance including repositioning and construction of new entrance gates and associated localized boundary hedging; k: All associated site development works including roads, yards, paths, all-weather paddocks and exercise ring, paddock and gallop fencing, internal farm gates, undergrounding of main ESB lines with erection of associated poles, storm water percolation area, and general site and yard lighting

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23520

• 4 Apr 2023Conditional

  Will consist of a: A - realigning pitch no.3 and inclusion of new flood lights and spectator fencing around pitch no.3 and ball stops, B - construction of a new all weather juvenile pitch with associated fencing and lighting. C - construction of a new ball skills wall with associated fencing and lighting. D - construction of a new viewing stand. E -construction of a new playground with associated fencing and lighting. F - construction of a new car park area between pitch no.1 and pitch no.2 and associated fencing G-construction of a new walking path and all ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23350

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  a) The construction of proposed ground and first floor extensions to the existing two storey dwelling totalling 39.5 m2 for the option 'A' plans, and 32.5 m2 for the option 'B' plans, submitted as part of the planning application submission. Clarification of the proposed extension works to the existing two storey dwelling, and the difference between the proposed Option 'A' and 'B' plans is provided as follows: 1. Single storey rear extension 1 with floor area of 7.0 m2 (included in option 'A' plans but omitted from Option 'B' plans); 2. Two storey side extension 2 with floor area of 14.3 m2 at ground floor and 15.0m2 at first floor (29.3 m2 total) included in both option 'A' and 'B' plans; and 3. First floor front extension 3 of 3.2 m2 (infilling existing front balcony) included in both Option 'A' and Option 'B' plans. (b) Modifications to the existing dwelling to include: -Replacement of all existing windows and doors with newly sized and proportioned windows and doors; internal alterations to facilitate the proposed extension works and new internal layout; and replacement of existing rainwater goods ( fascia's, gutters and downpipes). (c) The part demolition of the existing single storey garage (the oil boiler house element with floor area of 4.8m2) to facilitate access around the house at the location of the proposed new two storey side extension 2. (d) All associated site development works including connection to all services on site

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23279

• 6 Dec 2022Conditional

  of a horse exercise and walking structure which consists of walls and associated roof canopy and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 221449

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  for (A) the erection of two storey type house with single storey element to front (south) elevation, (B) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area, (C) garage/fuel store for domestic use and 2 No. isolation horse stables with tack room & feed store to serve the existing equestrian yard and (D) upgrading of the existing field entrance to form a recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211407

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  a single storey dwelling, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201565

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  (a) The demolition of existing stable building which incorporates machinery store, haybarn and associated rooms and store, and demolition of an existing horse walker building, and for permission for the construction of: (b) A stable barn consisting of 30 stables and associated ancillary rooms and staff facilities; (c) Horse wash bays with associated plant room; (d) A separate stable barn consisting of 6 No. stables; (e) A haybarn; (f) 2 No. covered horse walkers; (g) A covered lunge ring; (h) A machinery shed; (i) A single storey staff dwelling; (j) Elevational alterations to existing horse pool building, and minor internal alterations including the removal of a staff living compartment within the building; (k) Roof over existing horse water walker; (l) Horse gallops, including alterations to localized ground levels, and including associated gallop lighting consisting of pole mounted lights, each pole 8 metre high at 20 metre centres; (m) Alterations to existing site entrance including repositioning and construction of new entrance gates and associated localized boundary hedging; (n) Walled manure pit with associated effluent tank; (o) Erection of a covered circular overground water storage tank; (p) All associated site development works including roads, yards, paths, all-weather paddocks and exercise ring, paddock and gallop fencing, internal farm gates, undergrounding of main ESB lines with erection of associated poles, effluent tank, rain water harvesting tank, storm water percolation area, decommissioning of existing septic tank serving existing dwelling on site and the construction of a new septic tank and percolation area to serve the development, horse loading ramp and muck trailer ramp, and general site and yard lighting, all

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191090

• 7 Feb 2019Conditional

  (1) American Horse-barn comprising of 6 No. stables, tack/store room and lunging area. (2) Stable block comprising of 3 No. stables. (3) Store room. (4) Dungstead/effluent holding tank, and (5) All associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 19111

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  the following: Extension of existing storage unit for the use of the existing dwelling. Alterations of the external windows and doors of the existing storage unit which was originally constructed in compliance with the original planning grant

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18956

• 18 Jul 2018N/a

  the extension of existing storage unit for the use of the existing dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18870

• 15 May 2018Conditional

  agricultural building for use ancillary to the existing bloodstock business on site. The single storey building consists of tack room, changing area, storage, machinery store and feed store, and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18564

• 6 Apr 2018Refused

  new bungalow and effluent treatment system, new entrance gate and domestic double garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 18380

• 9 Mar 2018N/a

  Agricultural building for use ancillary to the existing bloodstock business on. The single storey building consists of tack room, changing area, storage, machinery store and feed store, and all associated site development works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18246

• 30 Jan 2018Conditional

  a) sand arena building with associated uses, b) isolation box building in revised location on site, c) modifications and alterations to approved dwelling house as granted planning permission on planning file register reference 73/65. All associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1887

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  of boundary wall and entrance gates, stable block and associated works containing 21 horse stable units, yard manager accommodation, stable lads accommodation, sitting up room, plant room, tack room, feed room, rug room and associated storage rooms and for retention of swimming pool, gym changing rooms toilets and plant room, retention of car port and permission for new Oakstown effluent treatment system and percolation area, new dungstead and associated underground storage tanks being replacement of older stable block, hayshed and associated units. Revised by significant further information consisting of: addendum to appropriate assessment report, retention of sunroom, retention of 2 storey rear extension of 45.6 Sq.m

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171337

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  for a ten year permission for the construction of an up to 5MWp Solar PV farm, with a maximum export capacity of 4MW comprising approximately 18,000 no. photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 6.08 hectares and associated ancillary development including 4 no. transformer stations, 4 no. auxiliary transformer stations, 4 no. inverters, 1 no. client side substation on the eastern side of the landholding to the east of the area of the photovoltaic panels, 1 no. single storey storage building, 1 no. single storey communications building, 1 no. single storey DNO building, 3 no. CCTV security cameras mounted on 4 metre high poles and perimeter security fencing (2 metres high), the construction of a site access from the adjoining L7032 road to the east and the construction of a hardcore access road between the area of the photovoltaic panels and the site access.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17707

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Pollardstown Fen SAC 000396
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pollardstown Fen 000396

Recorded monuments

• KD023-003 Church
  Description

  Towards the N end of a small triangular-shaped graveyard (KD023-003001-). The surviving upstanding remains comprise the E and W gable walls of a rectangular structure (int dims. 11.6m E-W; 5.7m N-S), built of uncoursed mortared limestone flags and boulders, with granite quoins and mouldings. The E gable wall contains the remains of a robbed-out three-light window, while the window in the W gable wall has three very narrow lancets with granite mouldings, round heads, small external pointed hoods and pointed rubble rear arches. The N and S sidewalls are traceable as grassed-over foundation lines. The church may date to the 14th-century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 April 2012

• KD023-003001 Graveyard
  Description

  In level pasture overlooking Pollardstown Fen to the NNE. A roadside graveyard, triangular in shape (est. max. dims. c. 55m ESE-WNW; c. 45m N-S) is enclosed by a well-preserved stone wall with entrance gate and adjacent stone steps at E end of S (roadside) wall. A disused boithrín runs NW from the road along the E side of the graveyard. An earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; Wth 1.9m; ext. H 1.5m) and outer, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.7m; D 0.3m) runs inside and parallel to the graveyard's S wall: the bank continues to run on inside the E wall (int. H 0.4m; Wth 0.9m; ext. H 0.2m), but is faced externally by the wall, with the area outside occupied by the boithrín which may run along the line of an earlier fosse? There is a gap (Wth 5m) in this bank, together with a short in-turning, opposite the E gable wall of the church (KD023-003----) which located in the N portion of the graveyard, but there no obvious corresponding entrance gap in the wall outside. Burials occur to the S of the church, and legible grave markers date from the 18th to the 20th-century. No longer in use. (www.kildare.co/Graveyard-Details.asp?ID=K018: Last accessed 16-04-2012) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 April 2012

• KD023-004 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  On a narrow gravel ridge and levelled in the course of gravel extraction. A rougly circular (est. ext. diam. c. 80m), raised area was enclosed by an earthen bank, a deep external fosse and a second, outer bank. Limited archaeological excavation (Fanning 1973-4, 251-61) produced iron objects (including horseshoe nails, blades, an arrowhead, a buckle and a stirrup) which were interpreted as suggesting the monument was constructed and occupied between the 12th and 14th-century; although it was acknowledged that several finds might date to the 15th-century. While both Fanning (op. cit.) and O'Conor (1998, 35) interpret the monument as a possible ringwork castle, Fitzpatrick (2009, 282) argues that this interpretation ignores the possibility of the native Irish occupying a rath and sharing the material culture of the colonist, or, of incoming manorial tenants occupying an existing rath. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 April 2012

• KD023-005 Burial
  Description

  In 1903, sherds of an encrusted urn were recovered from a possible cist during gravel extraction at a large pit used by the Great Southern and Western Railway Co. (O'Grady 1903-5, 313; Waddell 1970, 120). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 April 2012

• KD023-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure, and while not recorded on the latest ed. (1939) of the 6-inch map where the area is shown as a quarry, the feature is hachured as a small sub-rectangular enclosure (est. ext. dims. c. 25m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SE) on the intervening OS 25-inch mapping. Appears to have been quarried away. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 May 2012

• KD023-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, the latest ed. (1939) shows a small raised, circular area (est. diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp from W-N-E, and elsewhere by a slightly curved field boundary, located on the N edge of a very large quarry from which the Great Northern and Western Railway Co. extracted gravel for use as ballast on their rail lines. Appears to have been quarried away. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 May 2012

• KD023-014 Mound
  Description

  Described in 1972 as a roughly circular mound set on the end of a low ridge in open pasture, the S limits of which were truncated by a road. When revisited in 1986, no visible surface trace survived (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 25 May 2012

• KD023-124 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In level pasture in an area of extensive sand and gravel pits. Visible on a 2009 Google earth image as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (estimated diameter c. 18m), possibly a ringbarrow (pers. comm. D. Brennan, 30-03-2015). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22-12-2015

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Pollardstown, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2569 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Pollardstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Pollardstown · Baile an Pholardaigh

Area

4,291,798 m² (429.18 ha, 1,060.53 acres)

Civil parish

Pollardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Pollardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

337 people lived in 120 households in the Pollardstown electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornelscourt, Curragh, Loughbrown, Morristownbiller, Rathbride, Rosberry, Scarletstown

Placenames

Pollardstown 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.