Roestown

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roestown, from 342 m² to 137,052 m² (13.71 ha, 33.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Roestown 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.

• 24 Jun 2025N/a

  for (a) new detached single storey / storey and a half type dwelling house, (b) new domestic on-site wastewater treatment system, (c) modifications to existing vehicular entrance to create a new shared / dual entrance serving proposed dwelling and lands located at the rear of the subject site, (d) relocated access roadway serving said lands at the rear of the subject site, (e) new site boundaries, landscaping and all associated development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560699

• 21 Aug 2020Refused

  construction of a new detached two storey low profile type dwelling along with a detached single storey low profile domestic garage, together with access from public road via new shared recessed entrance, installation of a new proprietary waste water treatment system together with all associated landscaping, site works and services, all

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20940

• 16 Aug 2019Conditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 14/329 - A combination of a single storey and a storey and a half style extension to the side and rear of an existing dwelling, material alterations to the existing dwelling and alterations to the existing facades, re-location of the existing site entrance and driveway and installation of a new treatment plant and percolation area, all associated site works and demolition of existing agricultural buildings

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 19927

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new detached two storey house (247 sqm) together with an adjacent single storey stable block (91 sqm) and all associated services (including on-site waste water treatment system and polishing filter), site development and landscaping works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18596

• 26 Jun 2017Conditional

  extension to the side of the house accommodating more living space with new front door and new skylights, new dormer windows to the front in the existing roof, upgrading existing dormer windows to the rear of the existing roof, removal of existing porch, removal of existing conservatory, and waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17740

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 Roestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roestown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2797 (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 Roestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Roestown

Area

919,592 m² (91.96 ha, 227.24 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcock, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Kilcock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcock electoral division: 8,896 people in 2,853 households; 69% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gragadder, Laragh, Laragh Demesne, Maws, Treadstown

Placenames

Roestown 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.