# Shortwood, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 422,375 m² (42.24 ha, 104.37 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,918 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Whitechurch, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/whitechurch.md - Barony: Naas North - Electoral division: Bodenstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25694 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81114 - Centre: latitude 53.288332, longitude -6.647296 (WGS 84) ## 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1089656: 131,187 m² (13.12 ha, 32.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089656.md - Parcel 1034701: 99,054 m² (9.91 ha, 24.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034701.md - Parcel 3250175: 97,063 m² (9.71 ha, 23.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3250175.md - Parcel 5188021: 38,887 m² (3.89 ha, 9.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5188021.md - Parcel 5239644: 20,186 m² (2.02 ha, 4.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5239644.md - Parcel 4798712: 12,523 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798712.md - Parcel 1084797: 9,995 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084797.md - Parcel 2669655: 5,061 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2669655.md - Parcel 1044592: 3,522 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1044592.md - Parcel 1066047: 1,918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066047.md - Parcel 5750098: 1,118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5750098.md - Parcel 5750076: 685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5750076.md - Parcel 1031464: 654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031464.md - Parcel 5239599: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5239599.md - Parcel 5750078: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5750078.md - Parcel 5750109: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5750109.md - Parcel 5750100: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5750100.md - Parcel 5750082: 35 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5750082.md - Parcel 5750081: 29 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5750081.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 2 Jul 2026, Kildare County Council 2660736: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660736/0 - 30 Jun 2026, Kildare County Council 2660724: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660724/0 - 15 Jun 2026, Kildare County Council 2660642: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660642/0 - 12 Jun 2026, Kildare County Council 2660629: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660629/0 - 24 Aug 2020, Kildare County Council 20950: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20950/0 - 12 Aug 2020, Kildare County Council 20899: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20899/0 - 13 Sept 2019, Kildare County Council 191023: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191023/0 - 29 Mar 2018, Kildare County Council 18341: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18341/0 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 Shortwood. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shortwood. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shortwood. ## 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2802.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/shortwood.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/shortwood.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/shortwood.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Daars North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/daars-north.md - Ladycastle Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ladycastle-upper.md - Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathmore-81051.md - Turnings: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnings.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/shortwood - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/shortwood