Spratstown
Townland in the civil parish of Narraghmore, barony of Narragh and Reban East, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 130.9 ha
- 324 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 3,535 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Spratstown, from 25 m² to 238,250 m² (23.82 ha, 58.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Spratstown 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
26 Sept 2025Conditional
for to retain altered boundary and new location of effluent treatment system and ancillary works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Retention permission for an existing outbuilding structure to the rear of dwelling. Retention of the vehicular entrance and retention of the dwelling as constructed
Retention · Kildare County Council, 25157
4 Oct 2021Conditional
the erection of 1. cattle shed including slatted tank, cubicles, and bedded area along with concrete yards and all ancillary works. 2. Road underpass for cows under the L8033, soiled water tank and ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211430
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 Spratstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Spratstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Spratstown.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Spratstown.
- 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 Spratstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Spratstown
- Area
- 1,309,443 m² (130.94 ha, 323.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Narraghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Electoral division
- Ballitore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballitore electoral division: 1,245 people in 427 households; 67% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annalough, Ballynure (Co. Wicklow), Colbinstown, Crookstown East, Crookstown Upper, Inchaquire, Knockdoo (Co. Wicklow), Moyleabbey, Rahoonbeak
- Placenames
- Spratstown 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.