# Russellswood, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Carrick, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare; in Irish Coill an Ruiséalaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 608,584 m² (60.86 ha, 150.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 610,909 m² (61.09 ha, 150.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Carrick, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/carrick.md - Barony: Carbury - Electoral division: Carrick, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25523 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81088 - Centre: latitude 53.40376, longitude -7.047401 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1018813: 610,909 m² (61.09 ha, 150.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018813.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 23 Nov 2020, Kildare County Council 201409: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/201409/0 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 Russellswood. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Russellswood. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Russellswood. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/russellswood.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/russellswood.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/russellswood.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Russellswood 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) - Ballyboggan (Co. Meath): https://everytownland.com/meath/ballyboggan.md - Ballynakill (Co. Meath): https://everytownland.com/meath/ballynakill-160155.md - Brackagh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brackagh.md - Corwig: https://everytownland.com/kildare/corwig.md - Rahin: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rahin.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/russellswood - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/russellswood