# Racefield, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyshannon, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare; in Irish Páirc an Ráis. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 784,359 m² (78.44 ha, 193.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,812 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyshannon, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ballyshannon.md - Barony: Offaly West - Electoral division: Ballyshannon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,813 people lived in 577 households in the Ballyshannon electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24955 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81023 - Centre: latitude 53.089882, longitude -6.844268 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racefield, from 388 m² to 579,511 m² (57.95 ha, 143.2 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1086988: 579,511 m² (57.95 ha, 143.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1086988.md - Parcel 1031563: 134,047 m² (13.4 ha, 33.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031563.md - Parcel 1053700: 56,161 m² (5.62 ha, 13.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053700.md - Parcel 1064534: 4,579 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1064534.md - Parcel 1034785: 2,494 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034785.md - Parcel 1027285: 2,233 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027285.md - Parcel 1021694: 1,390 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021694.md - Parcel 1025020: 1,082 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025020.md - Parcel 2650901: 866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650901.md - Parcel 1049294: 852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1049294.md - Parcel 2650919: 756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650919.md - Parcel 2650922: 388 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650922.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Racefield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Oct 2019, Kildare County Council 191097: Refused. Permission. a new sand and gravel extraction development on an overall site of c.32.2 hectares and comprises: Extraction of sand and gravel with excavation (dry and wet workings) occurring within a c.17.2 ha active area (location to vary over the operational phase) and related mobile processing activities that includes crushing, washing and screening and all ancillary works, plant and structures (including closed circuit silt disposal lagoons); Stockpiling of overburden (topsoil, subsoil and waste), raw and finished aggregates (prior to processing on-site / transportation off-site); Staff facilities including prefabricated canteen facility and welfare facilities (located within an existing agricultural shed); Ancillary site works including hardstand areas, bunded and covered fuel tanks, weighbridge, wheelwash, and packaged waste water treatment system; Perimeter landscaped screening berms; A new vehicular access point onto the L8006 including boundary treatment and signage; Landscaping and full restoration of the site with the establishment of a terrestrial and freshwater wildlife habitat; and The proposed extraction operational period is for 12 years with 2 years to complete restoration (total duration sought 14 years). This application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Natura Impact Statement, all development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191097/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Racefield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Racefield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Racefield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Racefield, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2573, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2573.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/racefield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/racefield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/racefield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Racefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyshannon Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballyshannon-demesne.md - Crawnglass: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crawnglass.md - Crockaun: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crockaun.md - Tippeenan Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tippeenan-lower.md - Whitehouse: https://everytownland.com/kildare/whitehouse.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/racefield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/racefield