Robertstown East

124 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Robertstown East, from 26 m² to 188,292 m² (18.83 ha, 46.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Robertstown, Kildare · 55 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Robertstown, Kildare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Robertstown, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Robertstown, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Robertstown, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 May 2026Refused

  the construction of a dwelling, a secondary treatment system, a road entrance and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660536

• 21 May 2026Refused

  the construction of a dwelling, a secondary treatment system, a road entrance and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660537

• 11 Mar 2025N/a

  for construction of a stable block containing 6 stables, feed room, tack room & WC, a hay shed, dungstead, an underground effluent holding tank and puraflo effluent treatment system, and all associated site

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560249

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  for (A) the retention of the existing works completed to date (B) permission to complete the construction of 4no. two-storey semi-detached townhouses with attic conversions in two blocks with 8 parking spaces with foul drainage connections to public mains, onsite surface water treatment and all associated ancillary siteworks, previously granted under planning file ref. 19/293. (C) permission for minor alterations to the house type from that granted under file ref 19/293, to increase the no. of bedrooms from three to four, in each house. Revised by Significant Further Information consisting of revised dwelling heights and revised design of the dwellings – removing the second floor attic conversions and reducing the ridge height from 8584mm to 7225mm. Each new redesigned house is to be a 4-bedroom house

  Retention, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 2560214

• 26 Feb 2025N/a

  for (A) the retention of the existing works completed to date (B) permission to complete the construction of 4no. two-storey semi-detached townhouses with attic conversions in two blocks with 8 parking spaces with foul drainage connections to public mains, onsite surface water treatment and all associated ancillary siteworks, previously granted under planning file ref. 19/293. (C) permission for minor alterations to the house type from that granted under file ref 19/293, to increase the no. of bedrooms from three to four, in each house

  Retention, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 2560188

• 27 Jan 2025N/a

  for construction of a stable block containing 6 stables, feed room, tack room & WC, a hay shed, dungstead, an underground effluent holding tank and puraflo effluent treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560059

• 28 Aug 2024Conditional

  for (A) retention permission of a metal clad garage for domestic use and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460840

• 2 Jul 2024Refused

  Extension of Duration of 19/293 for the construction of 4 No. three bed, two storey townhouses with attic conversions in two blocks with 8 parking spaces with foul drainage connections to the public mains, onsite surface water treatment and all associated and ancillary site and ground works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 24213

• 1 Feb 2024Conditional

  (A) the erection of a single storey extension to the rear of existing house previously granted under file ref. 72/979, (B) increase window size on side elevation (east elevation) of existing house and other minor internal alterations, (C) metal clad garage for domestic use, (D) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460080

• 31 Jan 2024N/a

  for (A) the erection of a single storey extension to the rear of existing house previously granted under file ref. 72/979, (B) increase window size on side elevation (east elevation) of existing house and other minor internal alterations, (C) metal clad garage for domestic use, (D) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460070

• 24 Jun 2022Conditional

  the provision of a community amenity area including car-parking, playground, playing pitch, skate park, open-air performance space, toilet and kitchenette facility, recycling zone, dog socialising area, alterations to parking at Robertstown National School, pedestrian link to the Grand Canal and the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22768

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  Bloodstock development consisting of: (a) Single storey stable building consisting of 6 No. horse boxes, tack room, vet's room and dungstead. (b) 1 No. hay/feed/machinery store in typical metal clad agricultural style building. (c) Modified recessed entrance, landscaping and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22350

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. 16/392 - (a) Erection of 3 No. dormer type houses (single storey in scale) in a cluster type development; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use on each site and (c) New recessed vehicular entrance onto the public road, connection into the existing public foul sewer and all associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 21493

• 5 Oct 2020Refused

  deforestation of part of my lands comprising of 16.53 hectares of mixed broadleaf forest for conversion to agricultural land,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201152

• 25 Sept 2020N/a

  deforestation of part of my lands comprising 16.53 hectares of mixed broadleaf forest for conversion to agricultural land

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201102

• 29 May 2020N/a

  Extension of Duration of Planning File Ref. 16/392 - (a) Erection of 3 No. dormer type houses (single storey in scale) in a cluster type development; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use on each site and (c) New recessed vehicular entrance onto the public road, connection into the existing public foul sewer and all associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 20538

• 20 May 2019N/a

  The construction of a two storey, detached, 309.57m2 farmhouse; with new foul treatment system and percolation area; new piers and entrance gates to new vehicular entrance; as well as all associated and ancillary site and ground works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19563

• 21 Mar 2019Conditional

  the construction of 4 No. three bed, two storey townhouses with attic conversions in two blocks with 8 parking spaces with foul drainage connections to the public mains, onsite surface water treatment and all associated and ancillary site and ground works

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 19293

• 13 Mar 2019N/a

  the construction of 4 no. three bed, two storey townhouses in two blocks with 8 parking spaces with foul drainage connections to the public mains, onsite surface water treatment and all associated and ancillary site and ground works

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 19250

• 15 Feb 2019Conditional

  replacement of existing roof with new roof, renovation of existing building to include re-opening of previous window opes, installation of new rear fire escape door at ground floor level and 2 new rear windows to first floor level, conversion for use as an office and all associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19138

• 18 Jan 2019N/a

  construction of 4 No. three bed, two storey townhouses in two blocks with 8 parking spaces, with foul drainage connections to the public mains, on-site surface water treatment and all associated and ancillary, site and ground works

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 1935

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Robertstown East.

Architectural heritage

• Binn's Bridge, bridge, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump back bridge over canal, dated 1784. Part ivy-covered repointed walls with braced lichen-spotted cut-limestone coping to parapets centred on drag edged cut-limestone date stones ("1784"). Single round arch with drag edged limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Grand Canal with grass banks to canal.

• Unknown, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey rubble stone building, c.1850, probably originally detached retaining early aspect with door opening to first floor to side elevation to north-west. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Red brick course to eaves with traces of render over. No rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls with traces of render over. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Red brick dressings. Timber casement windows (glazing now missing). Square-headed door openings to side elevation to north-west (one to first floor). Red brick dressings. Timber lintels. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set back from bank of Grand Canal on grass verge. Gravel lane/drive to north-west and to north-east.

• House, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1885, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre. Extended, c.1980, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north-east. Gable-ended roof with thatch. Rope work to ridges. Rendered chimney stack. Rendered coping to gables. Gabled to porch. Corrugated-iron. Iron ridge tiles. Decorative saw tooth bargeboards. Flat-roof to return. Bitumen felt. Rendered walls (possibly over rubble stone construction). Painted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills (concrete to return). 2/2 timber sash windows (timber casement windows to return). Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from bank of Grand Canal on grass verge. Concrete forecourt to front. Pre-cast concrete boundary wall, c.1980, to boundary.

• Hotel, 1795–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement hotel, built 1799-1801; opened 1801, on a rectangular plan centred on three-bay full-height pedimented breakfront. Extended, 1804, producing present composition. Closed, 1849. Leased, 1869, to accommodate alternative use. Occupied, 1901; 1911. In alternative use, 1942-8. Renovated, 1995, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part ivy-covered roughcast walls on lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered cushion course on roughcast base with cut-granite monolithic pediment (breakfront) framing cast-iron clockface in cut-granite surround. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of six steps supporting cast-iron bootscrapers, timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings centred on cut-granite double keystone framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in round-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (first floor) centred on square-headed window opening in round-headed recess with cut-granite sill course, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows without horns. Road fronted.

• Aqueduct, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone aqueduct, c.1780, with cut-stone coping. Random rubble stone walls. Cut-stone coping. Single-round arch. Rendered voussoirs. Sited spanning stream leading to/off Grand Canal.

• Lamp standard, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron gas lamp standard, c.1900, comprising moulded plinth with embossed crest and fluted shaft having lamp fitting over. Subsequently converted to electric. One of a number of gas lamp standards along bank of Grand Canal.

• Canal (section of), 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of Grand Canal, c.1785, with dressed stone retaining walls.

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 moderately low, 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_2595 (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 Robertstown East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Robertstown East

Area

1,364,851 m² (136.49 ha, 337.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeage, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Robertstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Robertstown electoral division: 2,344 people in 781 households; 78% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolaght, Graigues, Grangeclare East, Moods, Mylerstown, Robertstown West

Placenames

Robertstown East 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.