# Riverstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballybrackan, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 976,106 m² (97.61 ha, 241.2 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,705 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballybrackan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ballybrackan.md - Barony: Offaly West - Electoral division: Ballybrackan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 660 people lived in 223 households in the Ballybrackan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/24936 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81069 - Centre: latitude 53.0953, longitude -7.050735 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riverstown, from 425 m² to 257,650 m² (25.77 ha, 63.67 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1024912: 257,650 m² (25.77 ha, 63.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024912.md - Parcel 1086754: 249,912 m² (24.99 ha, 61.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1086754.md - Parcel 1014870: 178,647 m² (17.86 ha, 44.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014870.md - Parcel 5629891: 123,895 m² (12.39 ha, 30.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629891.md - Parcel 1024956: 76,226 m² (7.62 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024956.md - Parcel 1084683: 71,655 m² (7.17 ha, 17.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084683.md - Parcel 2974503: 5,705 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2974503.md - Parcel 1058656: 2,942 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058656.md - Parcel 1034859: 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034859.md - Parcel 5308194: 1,747 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5308194.md - Parcel 1080908: 1,534 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080908.md - Parcel 1016185: 1,053 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016185.md - Parcel 6180950: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6180950.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Riverstown 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 16 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21869: Conditional. Permission. A. new tennis court within the curtilage of the house, enclosed by a 2.4m high fence on two sides and a 3.6M high fence to south boundary. All at a Protected Structure. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21869/0 - 28 May 2021, Kildare County Council 21747: N/a. Permission. a new tennis court within the curtilage of the house, enclosed by a 2.4m high fence on two sides and a 3.6m high fence to south boundary. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21747/0 - 2 Jun 2020, Kildare County Council 20553: Conditional. Permission. amendments and additions to previous planning permission application ref:18/1456 including demolition of existing non-historic two-storey extension and replacement with new single-storey extension; three new windows to historic detail, two in historic openings and one new opening; alterations to historic internal layout and fabric including new lowered first floor in north of east wing pavilion and two new en-suite bathrooms (a Protected Structure). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20553/0 - 4 Dec 2018, Kildare County Council 181456: Conditional. Permission. New single storey extension to rear, landscaping works, refurbishment works to existing house consisting of reinstatement of windows to historic detail, three new window openings, three new roof lights to rear, reinstatement of former arched opening to rear, renewal of external lime render, alterations to historic internal layout and fabric, new staircase, secondary glazing, internal breathable insulation, limecrete ground floor, renewal of mechanical and electrical services. Revised by significant further information consisting of; provision of a new wastewater treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181456/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD026-011: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD026-011----. In a farmyard c. 85m N of Riverstown House. A large, heavily overgrown circular area (diam. 10m) is enclosed by a stone wall. Jackson (1979-80, 158) recorded that, ‘There are six upright stone posts in the centre of the well on which is placed a wooden cross. A stone with indentations beside the well is said to be the imprints of the saint’s knees. The well is still visited for cures … [but] there is no record ofa Pattern. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 August 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Riverstown House, house, 1750–1800, Regional interest, registry number 11902602, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11902602. Detached nine-bay two-storey building, c.1775, on a T-shaped plan possibly originally part of larger building retaining early aspect with series of round-headed openings to ground floor, single-bay two-storey advanced bays to side elevations having full-height round-headed recessed niches with single-storey round-headed flanking niches, and three-bay two-storey return to rear having single-bay two-storey projecting bay with full-height round-headed recessed niche to side elevation. Hipped roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Square rooflights. Moulded eaves band. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls over rubble stone construction (exposed rubble stone construction to side elevations and to part of return). Stringcourse to spring of round-headed openings and to first floor. Round-headed recessed niches (single-storey and full-height) to various elevations. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Continuous sill course to first floor. 1/1, 2/2, 3/3 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Series of round-headed openings to ground floor (including door opening). Timber panelled double doors. Spoked fanlights to all round-headed openings. Set back from road in own part-overgrown grounds. Gravel verge to front.Detached five-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half attic, c.1775, to site. Now disused and part derelict. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Eaves band. Rainwater goods now gone. Rubble stone walls. Red brick dressings. Shallow segmental-headed window openings. Stone sills. Red brick to heads. Fittings now gone. Remains of shallow segmental-headed integral carriageways. Red brick dressings. One now blocked-up (rubble stone) with one remodelled, c.1900, having lintel added forming square-headed opening. Fittings now gone. ## 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 Riverstown, about 1 in 5 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Riverstown. - 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/riverstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/riverstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/riverstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Riverstown 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) - Belan (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/belan.md - Derryoughter East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/derryoughter-east.md - Derryoughter West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/derryoughter-west.md - Fearmore: https://everytownland.com/kildare/fearmore.md - Fisherstown (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/fisherstown.md - Gorteen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/gorteen-80580.md - Grangecoor: https://everytownland.com/kildare/grangecoor.md - Killeen West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/killeen-west.md - Lughil: https://everytownland.com/kildare/lughil.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/riverstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/riverstown