Shanrath West

305 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanrath West, from 1 m² to 107,549 m² (10.75 ha, 26.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 321 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  for to retain Staff Room unit as constructed to the front of existing childcare building, to retain 2 no. single storey prefabricated childcare classrooms as constructed to the rear of existing childcare building, all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560633

• 22 Sept 2021Conditional

  1 single storey creche, 36 No. 2 storey 3/4 bed semi-detached houses Type A/B, 12 No. 2-storey 3 bed semi-detached houses Type C, 32 No. 2 storey 3 Bed townhouses in blocks

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 211361

• 14 May 2021Conditional

  Full planning permission to construct new extension to side of our existing dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21662

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a new 2-storey detached dormer dwelling, and single storey detached garage, private well, and on-site waste water treatment facility to current EPA standards, together with all ancillary site and landscaping works including a new section of driveway to access the dwelling, and use of existing shared driveway and vehicular entrance onto the public road at a site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201496

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  change of house type on site no. 34 from Type C, as granted by planning permission 05/300070, extended by register ref. 17-1013, to type E, a 2-storey, 3 bedroom, semi-detached house, including revised boundary outline

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20666

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  Construction of a new two storey dwelling, garden store and lean-to-shed; a private well, septic tank and percolation area; landscaping; new section of driveway to access the dwelling and use of existing shared driveway and site entrance including realignment of a section of roadside boundary and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19759

• 26 Mar 2019Conditional

  Change of house type designs and layout for certain houses granted under permission register reference 05/300070, which was for construction of 100 houses and a crèche. It is proposed to change the houses on sites 2-13, 38-45 and 62-65 from Type E, 2- storey 3 bedroom terraced houses to modified Type E2, two – storey 3- bedroom terraced house type. It is also proposed to omit 8 houses on sites 50-57, currently Type D and E1, 2-storey 3- bedroom houses and replace them with 7 no. type A & A1 (mid terrace), 2 storey 3 bedroom houses in two blocks of 2 semi-detached and one block of 3 terraced houses and associated site works. No change to roads or services layouts. Overall reduction of one house in the full scheme.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19319

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  2 no. single storey prefabricated childcare classrooms to the rear of existing childcare building and all ancillary development works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 181381

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 05/300070 - 1 single storey creche, 36 No. 2 storey 3/4 bed semi-detached houses Type A/B, 12 No. 2-storey 3 bed semi-detached houses Type C, 32 No. 2 storey 3 Bed townhouses in blocks

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 171013

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 Shanrath West.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-064 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.O3) shows the cropmark of a circular pit with faint traces of a widely spaced concentric narrow fosse. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_2399 (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 Shanrath West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Shanrath West · An Seanráth Thiar

Area

466,780 m² (46.68 ha, 115.34 acres)

Civil parish

St. Michael's, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Athy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardree, Chanterlands, Coneyburrow, Graysland, Shanrath, Shanrath East

Placenames

Shanrath West 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.