Rickardstown Upper

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rickardstown Upper, from 1,088 m² to 155,377 m² (15.54 ha, 38.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rickardstown Upper 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.

• 23 Apr 2026Conditional

  existing ball stop nets 2 no. and planning for extension in height to the existing 2 no. Ball stop nets, and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660442

• 26 Feb 2026N/a

  extension in height to the existing 2 no. ball stop nets, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660206

• 25 Feb 2026N/a

  extension in height to the existing 2 no. ball stop nets, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660193

• 18 Sept 2023Conditional

  the erection of 28 no 6 metre high lamp standards and 4 no 10 metre high lamp standards with led light fittings to provide lighting to walking track and car park and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23903

• 6 Sept 2023N/a

  the erection of 28 no 6 metre high lamp standards and 4 no 10 metre high lamp standards with led light fittings to provide lighting to walking track and car park and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23885

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD027-020 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (est. c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S), with several trees growing on the perimeter. In undulating pasture. The site survives as a circular hollow (diam. c. 20m; D 1m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-021 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  According to Jackson (1979-80, 158), the well had dried up by 1937. 'Toberreendoney' means the ‘Well of the King of Sunday', and is named as Sunday's Well by Fitzgerald (1896-99, 158). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rickardstown Upper, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rickardstown Upper

Area

949,141 m² (94.91 ha, 234.54 acres)

Civil parish

Harristown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Harristown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

479 people lived in 158 households in the Harristown electoral division. 85% of households owned 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, Harristown Upper, Kildangan, Lenagorra, Rickardstown Lower

Placenames

Rickardstown Upper 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.