Rickardstown Lower

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rickardstown Lower, from 327 m² to 350,044 m² (35 ha, 86.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Rickardstown 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  of domestic garage and for retention and completion of domestic shed

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 25161

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  for (I) Milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, meal bin, Water tank, Office, flow channel, storage rooms and plant rooms with underground effluent tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461356

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  for Single Storey Front Extension & Attic Extension with 2 no. Dormer Windows to Existing Dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460790

• 29 Jul 2024N/a

  for Single Storey Front Extension & Attic Extension with 2 no. Dormer Windows to Existing Dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460724

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a 27 metre lattice mobile and broadband tower with headframe carrying telecommunications equipment, together with associated equipment and cabinets enclosed within a 2.4m palisade fence compound and access track

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23299

• 20 Apr 2022Refused

  sought to erect a stable barn consisting of ten No. boxes, tack room, office, dung heap and under ground storage tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22454

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  for Single Storey Rear Extension & Planning Permission sought for Dormer Roof Extension to Existing Single Storey Dwelling Using Existing Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22267

• 29 Sept 2021N/a

  for (A) to retain single storey extension to rear (B) permission for new single storey extensions/alterations to existing bungalow dwelling to; front, rear & side, to include upgrade to existing wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211393

• 9 Dec 2020Refused

  for a 1.8 metre high fence to front of existing dwelling house with all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201505

• 16 Jul 2018Conditional

  Bungalow, detached double garage, wastewater treatment system , recessed entrance, and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18854

• 13 Sept 2017Refused

  bungalow, detached double garage, recessed entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171031

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 Rickardstown Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rickardstown Lower.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rickardstown Lower.

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

Name

Rickardstown Lower

Area

1,980,894 m² (198.09 ha, 489.49 acres)

Civil parish

Harristown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Harristown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Harristown electoral division: 479 people in 158 households; 85% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn, Coolagh, Cush, Derryoughter East, Eskerhill, Kilbeg, Kildangan, Rickardstown Upper

Placenames

Rickardstown 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.