Shortwood
Townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 42.2 ha
- 104 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 1,918 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shortwood, from 29 m² to 131,187 m² (13.12 ha, 32.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Shortwood 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jul 2026Refused
for the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling, the provision of a new vehicular driveway connecting to an existing road entrance, a new waste-water treatment system and percolation area. The provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site development works. The change of use of the existing dwelling to agricultural use.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660736
30 Jun 2026N/a
for the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling, the provision of a new vehicular driveway connecting to an existing road entrance, a new waste-water treatment system and percolation area. The provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site development works. The change of use of the existing dwelling to agricultural use.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660724
15 Jun 2026N/a
(A) construction of a single storey type house, (B) garage / store for domestic use, (C) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and (D) Upgrading works to the existing family home entrance gateway to form a new combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway to serve the new house and all associated site works Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: The red line boundary of the site has changed between application stage and further information stage.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660642
12 Jun 2026N/a
Construction of a single storey type house, garage / store for domestic use, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and upgrading works to the existing family home entrance gateway to form a new combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway to serve the new house and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660629
24 Aug 2020Conditional
(1) the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; (2) the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with attached stables and an on-site waste water system, (3) the provision of a new vehicular driveway and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20950
12 Aug 2020N/a
(1) the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; (2) the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with attached stables and an on-site waste water system, (3) the provision of a new vehicular drive-way and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20899
13 Sept 2019N/a
The demolition of an existing single storey dwelling, the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with stables, the provision of a new vehicular driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191023
29 Mar 2018Conditional
the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling; the provision of a new vehicular driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18341
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shortwood.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shortwood.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shortwood.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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_2802 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shortwood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Shortwood
- Area
- 422,375 m² (42.24 ha, 104.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas North
- Electoral division
- Bodenstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bodenstown electoral division: 5,091 people in 1,700 households; 71% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Daars North, Ladycastle Upper, Rathmore, Turnings
- Placenames
- Shortwood 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.