Russellstown

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Russellstown, from 30 m² to 229,402 m² (22.94 ha, 56.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Russellstown 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  to Amend Bungalow type to that of previously Approved under planning ref: No.25109 and all associated works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2695

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  for to construct Bungalow, Domestic Garage, Oakstown waste water treatment system and all associated works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 25109

• 13 Mar 2025Refused

  to construct bungalow, domestic garage, Oakstown waste water treatment system and all associated works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2558

• 25 Oct 2024N/a

  For construction of bungalow, domestic garage, Oakstown waste water treatment system and all associated works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 24337

• 27 Oct 2022Conditional

  construction of a single storey rear extension to existing detached single storey bungalow, permission for the construction of a single storey front porch, amendment of internal layout of existing house, amendment to front facade and windows of existing house, upgrading of existing septic tank to secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221277

• 25 Apr 2022Conditional

  the demolition of existing habitable bungalow with permission to construct a replacement bungalow house with a partial one and half storey element, upgrade existing septic tank system with secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22469

• 28 May 2021Refused

  Single storey dwelling, effluent treatment plant, new site access all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21751

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  (a) two no. single storey extensions to side of existing dwelling house and connection to existing site services, (b) minor modifications to window and garage door arrangement to front elevation of existing dwelling house, (c) agricultural entrance and all associated development works. Dwelling was originally granted permission under Planning Register Reference No. 69/8418. All at

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 21398

• 23 Sept 2020N/a

  a log cabin and packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter,

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201089

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  for a single storey side extension to an existing two storey dwelling, ancillary alterations to side elevation and all associated site works. 174 sqm shed for domestic use ancillary to the house and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20726

• 2 Jun 2020Conditional

  of a sun room to the side of the residential dwelling, retention of storage units to rear of the dwelling, retention of a greenhouse located within the curtilage of the dwelling site

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20547

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  extensions and alterations to existing bungalow to include (A) Single storey extensions, bedroom, front porch and bay window to front of existing house (B) Single storey bedroom extension to rear of existing house (C) Single storey extensions, kitchen, dining, living and utility to rear and side of existing house (D) Modifications to windows/creation of new window opes to all elevations (E) Relocation of site entrance and associated works (F) All associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191344

• 13 Aug 2019Refused

  Retention; a storage shed erected

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 19916

• 1 Nov 2017Conditional

  dormer dwelling/storey and a half type dwelling, garage building, effluent treatment plant, new site entrance, landscaping and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171214

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of a four bed detached dwelling house, double garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17349

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 Russellstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD018-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular area (est. max. diam. c. 25m) defined by a bank. Described in 1986 as only surviving as a cropmark of weeds in a hay-field (SMR file). On level improved pasture at the N edge of a large tract of bog. The area is now used as a garden centre and, while the site is overlain by plastic tunnels, sub-surface deposits may survive intact. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, c.1860, with round-headed door opening to centre having cut-stone doorcase, advanced portions to flanking bays and three-bay two-storey lean-to lower range along rear elevation to west having higher bay to centre. Reroofed, c.1980. Refenestrated, c.1995. Hipped roof (lean-to to parallel range). Replacement artificial slate, c.1980. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks (one re-rendered, c.1995). Overhanging timber eaves on paired brackets. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings (round-headed to higher bay to rear to west). Stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Round-headed door opening. Cut-granite columnar doorcase with entablature. Replacement glazed uPVC door, c.1995. Fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Enclosed yard to rear with rubble stone boundary walls having cast-iron double gates.

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Russellstown.

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 Russellstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Russellstown

Area

1,547,917 m² (154.79 ha, 382.5 acres)

Civil parish

Rathernan, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Rathernan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathernan electoral division: 683 people in 221 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintine, Grangehiggin, Kilmeage, Lattensbog, Rathernan

Placenames

Russellstown 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.