Russellswood

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Russellswood, from 610,909 m² (61.09 ha, 150.96 acres) to 610,909 m² (61.09 ha, 150.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Russellswood 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.

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  Development within an overall application area of 17 hectares. Upgrading of the site entrance onto the R401 regional road, consisting of improvements to the surface to allow regular HGV traffic. Installation of all required site facilities, consisting of a prefabricated welfare facility (including a toilet facility with septic tank and percolation area), a double skinned fuel tank in a secure container, a weighbridge and a wheelwash. Installation of a processing plant and associated settlement lagoon (closed water system). Extraction of sand and gravel with processing that includes crushing, washing and screening, using the newly installed plant over an area of 9.2 hectares. The extraction works will take place in two phases (Extraction Phase 1: c. 4.9 hectares and Extraction Phase 2: c. 4.3 hectares). The sand and gravel extraction will be dry working above the water table. The remaining c. 7.8 hectares will consist of the processing area, a stockpile area, and overburden storage area and buffer zones to the site boundaries. Restoration of the site lands will be to a beneficial agricultural after-use. The proposed operational period is for 8 years plus 1 year to complete restoration (total duration sought 9 years). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of this planning application. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of updates to the EIAR and revised plans which include amendments to the proposed sand and gravel extraction depths within Phase 1 and Phase 2

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201409

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 Russellswood.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Russellswood.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Russellswood.

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

Name

Russellswood · Coill an Ruiséalaigh

Area

608,584 m² (60.86 ha, 150.38 acres)

Civil parish

Carrick, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Carrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrick electoral division: 304 people in 100 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboggan (Co. Meath), Ballynakill (Co. Meath), Brackagh, Corwig, Rahin

Placenames

Russellswood 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.