# Rochestown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gilltown, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 468,130 m² (46.81 ha, 115.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 32,856 m² (3.29 ha, 8.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Gilltown, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/gilltown.md - Barony: Naas South - Electoral division: Carnalway, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,043 people lived in 710 households in the Carnalway electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/25717 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81072 - Centre: latitude 53.123892, longitude -6.678534 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rochestown, from 14,172 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres) to 53,549 m² (5.35 ha, 13.23 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1026831: 53,549 m² (5.35 ha, 13.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026831.md - Parcel 1053707: 32,856 m² (3.29 ha, 8.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053707.md - Parcel 1021409: 14,172 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021409.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rochestown 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) 1 application, newest first. - 26 May 2023, Kildare County Council 23567: Conditional. Permission. 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 246 hectares in the townlands of Brannockstown, Brownstown, Carnalway, Coghlanstown West, Corbally, Delamain, Dunnstown, Gaganstown, Greenhills, Harristown, Hillsborough, Moorhill and Rochestown in County Kildare. The solar farm will consist of solar photovoltaic panels with a surface area of 1,130,000m2 on ground mounted frames, 40 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 4 no. single storey spare parts containers, 19 no. Ring Main Units, 9 no. weather stations underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L6063, L2032, L6071, R448, L6072, R412, L6074, L6047 and R413 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 5 no. stream and drain deck crossings, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via entrances from the R412, R413, L6044, L6047 and L6063. The solar farm will have a maximum export capacity of circa 210 megawatts. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. Part of the proposed development is situated within the demesne land of Harristown House which contains Protected Structures, but no works are proposed to these Protected Structures but no works are proposed to these Protected Structures. Revised by significant Further Information consisting of revised site layout plans to reduce panelled areas in Parcels 1 and 2, relocation of meteorological mast in Parcel 1 and all associated landscaping and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23567/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rochestown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rochestown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rochestown. ## 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 Rochestown, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rochestown. - 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/rochestown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rochestown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rochestown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rochestown 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) - Brannockstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brannockstown.md - Gaganstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/gaganstown.md - Moorhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moorhill.md - Mullaghboy: https://everytownland.com/kildare/mullaghboy.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/rochestown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/rochestown