Prumpelstown Lower

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prumpelstown Lower, from 71 m² to 392,969 m² (39.3 ha, 97.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Prumpelstown Lower 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 May 2025Conditional

  for the demolition of existing single storey rear extension to allow for the construction of a single storey rear extension to an existing single storey semi-detached cottage, new windows on existing side and rear façade of existing house and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: The proposed development now includes permission for the removal of the existing septic tank system with permission to install a new secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560576

• 5 Jun 2024Refused

  for the construction of a single storey rear extension to an existing single storey semi-detached cottage and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460511

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  the demolition of existing agricultural sheds, permission for the construction of a new agricultural stock & feed shed, the construction of a dung stead, a handling area, and all associated site works. The proposed site is in the curtilage of a protected structure – NIAH ref. No. 11904005, RPS No. B40-26

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360112

• 15 Sept 2021N/a

  for internal alterations and a two storey rear extension with a mansard roof to form 3 bedrooms (one en-suite) bathroom, utility, kitchen/dining and living room and also internal alterations and a single storey rear extension to form parent accommodation (Granny Flat) comprising entrance hall leading to bathroom bedroom and kitchen/living with shared rear patio and gardens

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211316

• 27 Aug 2021N/a

  for internal alterations and a two storey rear extension with a mansard roof to form 3 bedrooms (one en-suite) bathroom, utility, kitchen/dining and living room and also internal alterations and a single storey rear extension to form parent accommodation (Granny flat) comprising entrance hall leading to bathroom, bedroom and kitchen/living with shared rear patio and gardens at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211235

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD040-018 Church
  Description

  Traces of foundations of E and S walls of church, situated within a small slightly raised rectangular graveyard (KD040-018001-) (dims. 23.5m NW-SE x 16.5m NE-SW). Church is referred to in Repertorium Viride (OSL 1837, 38). A circular, perforated font base (KD040-018002-) of granite is used as a headstone. Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 45) shows graveyard located in NW corner of complex of small rectangular fields extending to E, an oval enclosure and traces of two possible trackways. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-018001 Graveyard
  Description

  A small slightly raised rectangular graveyard (dims. 23.5m NW-SE x 16.5m NE-SW), contains a church (KD040-018001-) and a font base (KD040-018002-). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-018002 Font
  Description

  A circular, perforated font base of granite is used as a headstone in the graveyard (KD040-018001-). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-018003 Field system
  Description

  Visible on an aeriaL photograph (CUCAP BGH:45 (1971) as the cropmark of a field system surrounding a church and graveyard (KD040-018001-). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-057 Enclosure
  Description

  First recorded in August 1995 in an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett. Aerial photograph (GB95.FU.22) shows the cropmark of an enclosure. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011

• KD040-062 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.17) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD040-063 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.18) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch: one of two ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD040-064 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.18) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch: one of two ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD040-067 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB99.GH.20) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• Prumplestown House, gate lodge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1870, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced entrance bay to centre and gablets to side elevations to north-east and to south-west. Extended, c.1940, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to south-east with single-bay single-storey box bay window added to side elevation to north-east. Hipped roof with slate (gablets to entrance bay and to side elevations in style of broken pediments with finials). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Timber eaves on decorative consoles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to return. Bitumen felt. Roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered quoined strips to corners. Moulded stringcourse to eaves. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to return). Rendered block-and-start surrounds with keystones. 2/2 timber sash windows with round-headed panes. Timber sash and timber casement windows to return. Segmental-headed door opening. Rendered surround. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in grounds shared with Prumplestown House fronting on to avenue. Gateway, c.1870, to west comprising pair of rusticated banded granite piers with curved walls having cast-iron gates with spike finials.

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 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_2578 (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 Prumpelstown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Prumpelstown Lower · Baile Phrompail Íochtarach

Area

1,150,606 m² (115.06 ha, 284.32 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Johnstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Johnstown electoral division: 198 people in 65 households; 90% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyburn Lower, Ballyburn Upper, Barnhill West, Halfmiletown, Johnstown South, Prumpelstown Upper, Woodlands West

Placenames

Prumpelstown Lower 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.