# Skerries North, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Narraghmore, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,033,994 m² (203.4 ha, 502.61 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,548 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Narraghmore, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/narraghmore.md
- Barony: Narragh and Reban West
- Electoral division: Skerries, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Skerries electoral division: 717 people in 228 households; 67% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% 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/25252
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81125
- Centre: latitude 53.046299, longitude -6.943559 (WGS 84)

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

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skerries North, from 84 m² to 933,673 m² (93.37 ha, 230.72 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1074050: 933,673 m² (93.37 ha, 230.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074050.md
- Parcel 1084625: 467,441 m² (46.74 ha, 115.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084625.md
- Parcel 1036974: 180,030 m² (18 ha, 44.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036974.md
- Parcel 1021723: 177,569 m² (17.76 ha, 43.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021723.md
- Parcel 6179501: 69,235 m² (6.92 ha, 17.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6179501.md
- Parcel 5932308: 60,562 m² (6.06 ha, 14.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5932308.md
- Parcel 1072397: 29,125 m² (2.91 ha, 7.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072397.md
- Parcel 5614950: 27,581 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5614950.md
- Parcel 5614982: 15,655 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5614982.md
- Parcel 1059471: 12,548 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059471.md
- Parcel 1034891: 6,779 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034891.md
- Parcel 1070900: 4,564 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070900.md
- Parcel 1058773: 4,057 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058773.md
- Parcel 5181254: 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5181254.md
- Parcel 1054184: 2,649 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054184.md
- Parcel 1015516: 2,557 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015516.md
- Parcel 1053809: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053809.md
- Parcel 1086697: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1086697.md
- Parcel 1070898: 84 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070898.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Skerries North 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 24 Apr 2026, Kildare County Council 2660445: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a bungalow, install a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to a new recessed vehicular entrance and all ancillary siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660445/0
- 27 Sept 2024, Kildare County Council 2460959: Conditional. Retention. for 1. single storey extension to front of existing dwelling 2. Pitched roof in place of flat roof over extension previously granted under Planning Ref. 76/97 3. Single storey extension to rear of existing shed 4. All ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460959/0
- 24 Sept 2024, Kildare County Council 2460942: N/a. Retention. for 1. Single storey extension to front of existing dwelling 2. Pitched roof in place of flat roof over extension previously granted under Planning Ref. 76/97 3. Single storey extension to rear of existing shed 4. All ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460942/0
- 16 Sept 2024, Kildare County Council 2460914: N/a. Retention, 1 home. for 1. Single storey extension to front of existing dwelling 2. Pitched roof in place of flat roof over extension previously granted under Planning Ref. 76/97 3. Single storey extension to rear of existing shed 4. All ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460914/0
- 2 Jun 2020, Kildare County Council 20307284: N/a. N/a. (ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307284.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP ) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Kilberry Bog Group. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20307284/0

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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 Skerries North.

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

- KD031-021: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD031-021----. In level improved tillage – local mapped field boundaries and woodland have been removed. Although not recorded on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map, the monument is shown on the latest ed. (1909) as a raised oval area (est. max. diams. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. No visible surface trace survives, but a 1968 aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM020) shows the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a roughly circular area, and the same cropmark is also visible on a 1990 aerial photograph by Dr. Gillian Barrett (GB90.BC.06). Cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph and on Google Earth imagery taken 28/06/2018. See attached image of Google Earth photographs taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the two circular enclosures based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 19 February 2019
- KD031-022: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD031-022----. In level tillage. A 1967 aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 82) shows the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a large circular area (est. max. diam. c. 60m). No visible surface trace survives. A soil mark visible on the aerial photo encroaching onto the monument at W is shown as a pit or depression on the latest ed. (1909) of the OS 6-inch map. On the ground it is an oval area (30m N-S; 20m E-W) of lush grass growth. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 October 2013
- KD031-039: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD031-039----. Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13-7-1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BC.06) shows the cropmark of a triangular enclosure defined by a fosse and set within a heart-shaped outer enclosure defined by two fosses. May be remnants of demesne landscaping, although none of the features appear on the 1st ed. of the OS 6-inch map (1838). The cropmark of a nearby enclosure (KD031-021----) c. 130m to the WNW, is also visible on the photograph. Skerries House located 120m to NNE with similar polygonal shaped enclosure or walled garden immediately SW of house as depicted on OS 25-inch map. Cropmark of polygonal shaped feature in field to S is similar in shape to the polygonal shaped enclosure to SW of Skerries House. See attached image of Google Earth photographs taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of KD031-021---- and possible designed landscape feature based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 19 February 2019

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)

- Skerries House, farm house, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 11903107, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD&regno=11903107. Detached three-bay two-storey over part-raised basement house, c.1860, on a symmetrical plan retaining some original fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre approached by flight of steps. Renovated and extended, c.1995, comprising two-bay two-storey lean-to recessed end bay to west with single-bay single-storey lean-to advanced porch. Hipped roof with slate (gabled to porch behind pediment). Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Overhanging timber eaves on brackets. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to to recessed end bay. Artificial slate. Roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered stringcourse to ground floor. Rendered band to eaves. Rendered walls to porch with rendered piers and pediment to gable. Roughcast walls to end bay. Unpainted. Rubble stone walls to advanced porch. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Some original 6/6 timber sash windows to side and rear elevations. Square-headed door opening approached by flight of stone steps. Glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Gateway, c.1880, to south-east comprising pair of rendered panelled piers with wrought iron gates.

## 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_2449, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2449.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/skerries-north.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/skerries-north.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/skerries-north.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Skerries North 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)

- Ballynabarna: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballynabarna.md
- Loughabor: https://everytownland.com/kildare/loughabor.md
- Skerries South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/skerries-south.md
- Tinnakill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tinnakill.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.

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