# Rowanstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Laraghbryan, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 503,125 m² (50.31 ha, 124.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 54,659 m² (5.47 ha, 13.51 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Laraghbryan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/laraghbryan.md
- Barony: Salt North
- Electoral division: Maynooth, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 18,729 people lived in 6,110 households in the Maynooth electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 47% 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/25439
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81085
- Centre: latitude 53.365697, longitude -6.603466 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowanstown, from 106 m² to 133,052 m² (13.31 ha, 32.88 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1084759: 133,052 m² (13.31 ha, 32.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084759.md
- Parcel 1018766: 130,094 m² (13.01 ha, 32.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018766.md
- Parcel 1018972: 117,472 m² (11.75 ha, 29.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018972.md
- Parcel 1066094: 60,350 m² (6.04 ha, 14.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066094.md
- Parcel 1078161: 54,659 m² (5.47 ha, 13.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078161.md
- Parcel 5377334: 4,390 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5377334.md
- Parcel 1042353: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042353.md
- Parcel 1040592: 1,230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040592.md
- Parcel 2667753: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2667753.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rowanstown 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 28 Mar 2025, Kildare County Council 2560326: Refused. Permission. for the construction of a solar PV development and an ‘under the fence’ transformer compound on a ca. 180ha site consisting of: I. Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site; II. 39 No. inverter units (ca. 2.9m (h) x ca. 6.1m (l) and 2.4(w)); III. 1 No. control room structure (5m (h) x 15.3m (l) and 3.7m (w)); IV. 1 No. transformer unit (ca. 6m x ca. 4m) and associated bund; V. Security fencing around the ‘under the fence’ transformer compound (2.65m high); VI. Electrical and communications cabling; VII. Pole-mounted security cameras; VIII. Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; IX. Upgrade of 3 No. existing Site entrances; X. Development of 2 No. new Site entrances; XI. 3 No. temporary construction compounds; XII. Internal access tracks; and, XIII All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560326/0
- 4 Aug 2022, Kildare County Council 22957: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new detached part storey and a half, part single storey type dwelling along with a single storey detached Garage for domestic use, entrance from public road to serve the dwelling via the existing private lane, installation of a new proprietary waste water treatment system (Oakstown O'Reilly BAF 6PE) together with all associated landscaping, site works and services all. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22957/0
- 6 Apr 2022, Kildare County Council 22392: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new detached part storey and a half, part single storey type dwelling along with a single storey detached Garage for domestic use, entrance from public road to serve the dwelling via the existing private lane, installation of a new proprietary waste water treatment system (Oakstown O'Reilly BAF 6PE) together with all associated landscaping, site works and services, all. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22392/0

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## 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 Rowanstown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rowanstown.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Rowanstown, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2834, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2834.zip (ZIP).
- 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/rowanstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rowanstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rowanstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rowanstown 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)

- Crinstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crinstown.md
- Donaghstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donaghstown.md
- Dowdstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dowdstown.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtown-80941.md
- Taghadoe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/taghadoe.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.

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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/rowanstown
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/rowanstown