Reeves

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reeves, from 3 m² to 36,840 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Reeves 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Reeves in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Reeves.

Recorded monuments

• KD015-001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a very low pasture spur which projects NE into tillage. A 1973 aerial photograph (CUCAP BOC 39) shows a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 45m) defined by the cropmarks of two concentric fosses, probably the remains of a ringfort. Not visible at ground level. A tower house (KD015-002001-) and bawn (KD015-002002-) stand c. 75m to the SE. (GSI N 396) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD015-002001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The castle is marked on the Down Survey (1655-6). On the E side of a bawn (KD015-002002-) located on a short, low, pasture spur which projects NE into tillage, c. 700m S of the River Liffey. A small, fairly well-preserved, almost square (dims. L 6.6m N-S; Wth 6.1m), four-storied, unvaulted structure, with a semi-circular stairs-tower projecting E from the SE angle, is built of randomly coursed, unbattered, limestone blocks with roughly dressed quoins (av. wall T 0.85m). The building is entered through a modern doorway (Wth 1.15m; H 2.1m), with a redbrick, flat-arched top, centrally placed in the W wall, which is probably broken through an older window ope. A modern rectangular ope (Wth 0.4m; H 0.7m) pierces the wall immediately S of the doorway. Ground-floor level has a modern, concrete floor and is lit by a centrally placed loop in a narrow embrasure in the N wall. Heavy plaster obscures other features including the original, pointed-arched doorway (Wth 0.75m; H 1.14m) at the E end of the S wall, which is only visible on the outer wall face, which is abutted by a late-18th/19th century farmhouse, now uninhabited. A low, square-headed doorway (Wth 0.7m; H 1.4m) at the S end of the E wall gives access to the projecting, semi-circular tower (int. diam 1.4m) containing a spiral stairs (clockwise), which is lit by four loops; two looking N (between ground and first-floor level, and between first and second-floor level) and two looking S (at first and third-floor levels). First-floor level is accessed off the stairs through a plain, square-headed doorway. Its wooden floor, at 2.07m above ground floor level and supported on a large, central, reinforced steel joist, may be higher than the original floor level, and was used as a granary. This level is lit by a plain, square-headed window in a gently splaying embrasure which has a gently rising top and a steeply plunging sill, centrally placed in the W wall, and by a loop in a square-headed embrasure with gently falling sill, centrally placed in the N wall. A central window in the S wall is broken out as a doorway giving access to the adjoining farmhouse. Second-floor level is accessed off the stairs through a fine pointed-arched doorway. This floor is lit by loops in gently splaying embrasures centrally placed in each wall, the loop in the S wall now plastered over but visible on the outer wall face. Third-floor level is accessed off the stairs through a plain, square-headed doorway, and is lit by centrally placed loops, in gently splaying embrasures, in each wall. Access is blocked to the battlements which are reduced to a few courses in height and sloped down from E to W to carry a modern corrugated roof. A string course projects (Wth 0.15-0.2m) under the battlement line and small gutter holes survive on the E wall and at the higher, E ends of the N and S walls. Traces of a defended gate-arch on the W side of the castle are visible on the outer wall face at the N end of the W wall. Here the E jamb (H 2.2m) of a gate arch, of very well-dressed quoins survives, with a scar-line of robbed-out quoins above at second floor level from where an arch stone springs W. Also associated is a blocked doorway with massive jamb stones, but with only a thin flag lintel, which gave access from the tower house to a narrow rectangular guard chamber above and inside the gate arch, the scar lines of which are visible to the N and S of the doorway. An armorial stone (KD015-002003-) is affixed to a wall of the adjacent, farmhouse. (CUCAP BOC 39) A ringfort site (KD015-001----) lies c. 75m to the NW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD015-002002 Bawn
  Description

  On the W side of a tower house (KD015-002001-), which retains traces of a defended gate arch giving access to the bawn. A 1973 aerial photograph (CUCAP BOC39) shows the cropmark of a fosse defining a rectangular area (dims. L c. 65m NE-SW; Wth c. 50m NW-SE). Extensive modern farm buildings and a large concrete yard overlie the monument. (GSI N 396) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD015-002003 Armorial plaque
  Description

  Affixed to the wall above the back door of a disused, late-18th/19th century farmhouse abutting Reeves castle (KD015-002001-). A small plaque (est. dims. Wth c. 0.4m; H c. 0.5m) carries a horizontally elongated lozenge motif with small central boss, which is flanked above by two more bosses, above which are a further two, slightly smaller bosses, each of which appears to carry an animal motif (? a hound), obscured by dense green-mould. 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 Reeves.

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_2869 (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 Reeves with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Reeves

Area

887,758 m² (88.78 ha, 219.37 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghcumper, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Donaghcumper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycommon, Castledillon Upper, Commons Upper, Friarstown, Killadoon, Newtown, Wheatfield Lower, Wheatfield Upper

Placenames

Reeves 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.