# Simonstown West, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killelan, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,681,639 m² (168.16 ha, 415.54 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,073 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Killelan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/killelan.md
- Barony: Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division: Carrigeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 644 people lived in 235 households in the Carrigeen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/24996
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81122
- Centre: latitude 52.96704, longitude -6.809648 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Simonstown West, from 777 m² to 548,738 m² (54.87 ha, 135.6 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1088378: 548,738 m² (54.87 ha, 135.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1088378.md
- Parcel 1089887: 317,249 m² (31.72 ha, 78.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089887.md
- Parcel 1022931: 190,125 m² (19.01 ha, 46.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022931.md
- Parcel 1056620: 153,529 m² (15.35 ha, 37.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056620.md
- Parcel 1077937: 129,421 m² (12.94 ha, 31.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1077937.md
- Parcel 1022932: 67,226 m² (6.72 ha, 16.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022932.md
- Parcel 1054290: 22,378 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054290.md
- Parcel 1075696: 18,380 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075696.md
- Parcel 1045334: 17,183 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045334.md
- Parcel 1013674: 11,706 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013674.md
- Parcel 1068490: 5,138 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068490.md
- Parcel 4671703: 4,073 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671703.md
- Parcel 3892270: 3,425 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3892270.md
- Parcel 1046805: 3,188 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1046805.md
- Parcel 1021775: 2,714 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021775.md
- Parcel 1080789: 2,474 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080789.md
- Parcel 1038959: 2,429 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038959.md
- Parcel 1072333: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072333.md
- Parcel 1014160: 1,839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014160.md
- Parcel 1047443: 1,582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1047443.md
- Parcel 1015442: 1,485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015442.md
- Parcel 1018509: 1,331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018509.md
- Parcel 1014824: 777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014824.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Simonstown West 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.

- 18 Dec 2017, Kildare County Council 171436: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a single storey extension to side and rear of existing single storey cottage, minor alterations to front elevation, replacement of existing septic tank with new Aswaflow SBR wastewater treatment system & soil polishing filter & all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/171436/0

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## 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 Simonstown West.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KD038-005: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD038-005----. In a small coniferous forest clearing at the top of a short, moderately steep SW slope, c. 120m to SSW of a barrow site (KD038-056----), in what was known as the 'Long Stone Field on Mr. Leonard's farm', where it stood 'at a sharp angle with the ground' (Fitzgerald 1906-8, 465). The tall, (and now vertical) sub-rectangular granite stone is orientated on a N-S axis (H 2.45m; L 0.95m; Wth 0.4m) with packing stones at the base. It tapers slightly towards the top, portion of which is broken off, and its smooth E face contrasts with the other, rougher faces. Date of upload: 15 September 2016
- KD038-056: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD038-056----. 'Prominently sited on a now conifer-forested hilltop c. 120m to NNE of a standing stone. Described as being 'In the Long Stone Field on Mr. Leonard's farm ... a small rath, much demolished on the south-east side; it has one encircling parapet, with the fosse, strange to say, inside, moat fashion.' (Fitzgerald 1906, 465). In 1955, it was described as having a fosse with a low, broad external bank (diam. c. 32m), (SMR file). The monument is no longer visible at ground level but was probably a ringbarrow.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Simonstown West, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Simonstown West.
- 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/simonstown-west.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/simonstown-west.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/simonstown-west.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Simonstown West 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)

- Bolton: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bolton.md
- Commonstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commonstown.md
- Killelan: https://everytownland.com/kildare/killelan.md
- Moone: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moone.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtown-80933.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.

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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/simonstown-west
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/simonstown-west