Snugburrow
Snugburrow is a townland in the civil parish of Tankardstown, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Snugburrow.
- Area
- 87.7 ha
- 217 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 430,092 m² (43.01 ha, 106.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Snugburrow, from 809 m² to 859,375 m² (85.94 ha, 212.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Snugburrow 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
19 Jun 2018Conditional
the erection of a slatted cattle shed, with a roofed feeding area with all associated facilities and site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18730
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 Snugburrow.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Snugburrow.
Architectural heritage
- Snugburrow House, steward's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey limestone ashlar former estate manager's house, c.1800, with single-bay two-storey lower return to rear to north. Extended, c.1900, comprising two-bay single-storey end bay to return. Renovated and extended, c.1940, comprising four-bay single-storey range along front elevation to south on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey return to rear to north, and with single-bay single-storey bow bay window added to elevation to west. Now in private residential use. Hipped roofs. Replacement artificial slate, c.1940. Clay ridge tiles. Dressed stone chimney stacks (red brick chimney stacks to return). Replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1940. Snecked cut-limestone walls. Dressed stone quoins. Rendered to end bay to return to north. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings (including to bow bay window). Stone sills (concrete sills to additional ranges). 6/6 timber sash windows. Timber casement windows to additional ranges. Square-headed door opening. Timber panelled door, c.1940. Glazed timber panelled French doors to south with sidelights. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1800, to north-east on a U-shaped plan about a courtyard. Hipped roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Some panels of red brick Running bond walls. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Timber fittings. Tarmacadam courtyard. Detached six-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1800, to north-east with series of square-headed integral carriageways. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls to ground floor. Red brick walls to first floor (combination of Running bond and English Garden Wall bond). Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded windows. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Series of square-headed integral carriageways. Cut-stone piers. Cut-stone lintels. No fittings.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Snugburrow, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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_2507 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Snugburrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Snugburrow · Snugburrow
- Area
- 877,213 m² (87.72 ha, 216.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tankardstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division
- Grangemellon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 647 people lived in 227 households in the Grangemellon electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyroe, Dollardstown, Leinsterlodge, Rosetown
- Placenames
- Snugburrow 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.