# Sheshoon, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballysax, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare; in Irish Seisiún. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,275,332 m² (127.53 ha, 315.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballysax, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ballysax.md - Barony: Offaly East - Electoral division: Ballysax West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,233 people lived in 415 households in the Ballysax West electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/25665 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81112 - Centre: latitude 53.126464, longitude -6.868686 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheshoon, from 1,012 m² to 629,863 m² (62.99 ha, 155.64 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1090609: 629,863 m² (62.99 ha, 155.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090609.md - Parcel 1018613: 572,809 m² (57.28 ha, 141.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018613.md - Parcel 1021604: 59,800 m² (5.98 ha, 14.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021604.md - Parcel 1080912: 3,263 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080912.md - Parcel 1081415: 2,348 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081415.md - Parcel 1027187: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027187.md - Parcel 1042634: 1,596 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042634.md - Parcel 1038816: 1,492 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038816.md - Parcel 1036871: 1,075 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036871.md - Parcel 1078084: 1,012 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078084.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Sheshoon 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 31 May 2024, Kildare County Council 2460500: Conditional. Permission. for construction of single-story outbuilding to include: garage, office space and domestic storage area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460500/0 - 29 May 2024, Kildare County Council 2460482: N/a. Permission. for the construction of single-story outbuilding to include: garage, office space and domestic storage area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460482/0 - 28 Jun 2017, Kildare County Council 17749: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. development at the existing equine bloodstock facility comprising: (i) Construction of a new single storey farm security building (50sqm) with solar panel on south facing roofslope; (ii) Construction of a new single-storey, 3 bedroom staff accommodation unit (146.5sqm) with solar panel on south facing roofslope; and, (iii) Modifications to existing farm service entrance to provide new entrance gates and piers with 2 No. new pedestrian access gates. The development will also include staff car parking, upgrade to part of internal access road, wastewater treatment system and rainwater harvesting tanks, landscaping, boundary treatments and all associated site development works necessary to facilitate the development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17749/0 - 12 May 2017, Kildare County Council 17543: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolition of dwelling along with all associated site development and facilitating works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17543/0 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 Sheshoon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheshoon. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheshoon. ## 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 Sheshoon, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2541, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2541.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/sheshoon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/sheshoon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/sheshoon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Sheshoon 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) - Bohergoy Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bohergoy-upper.md - Brownstown Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brownstown-upper.md - Carn: https://everytownland.com/kildare/carn.md - Churchland West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/churchland-west.md - Maddenstown Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maddenstown-demesne.md - Maddenstown Middle: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maddenstown-middle.md - Maddenstown North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maddenstown-north.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/sheshoon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/sheshoon