St. Wolstans

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in St. Wolstans, from 2 m² to 34,825 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers St. Wolstans 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.

• 22 Apr 2026Conditional

  alterations including creation of new entrance and exit doors with entrance canopy structure with non illuminated signage to existing retail store. New 2no. pedestrian access gates to boundary wall. Proposed advertising totem to boundary with new illuminated LED screen signage to both sides. Associated engineering works and site works. Works are within curtilage of exiting listed bothy/hothouse protected structure ref: KD011-028

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660435

• 29 Jan 2026Refused

  alterations to existing garden centre retail spaces including retention of first floor retail areas 574m², new access and entrance. Proposed new 2 storey extension to provide storage warehouse to the west of the site 903m². Extension to existing external canopy to the east for covered external retail 916m². Demolition of existing storage building and bungalow on site to allow for increased parking. Extension and alterations to existing café including single storey extensions external food to go/BBQ area and staff area. Converting and refurbishing existing listed bothy/hothouse for use as retail space. Protected structure ref: KD011-028. Proposed new signage and advertising totems to entrance. Associated engineering works and site works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 2614

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a three bedroom (plus farm office), single storey, detached dwelling house, new site entrance off existing private access roadway to stud farm, and all associated site works, landscaping, drainage etc., located on lands

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22162

• 29 Jun 2021Refused

  for development consisting of the construction of a three bedroom (plus farm office), single storey, detached dwelling house, new site entrance off existing private access roadway to stud farm, and all associated site works, landscaping, drainage etc., located on lands at

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21948

• 24 Nov 2020Conditional

  alterations to existing garden centre retail spaces including retention of first floor retail areas 574m², new access and entrance. Proposed new 2 storey extension to provide storage warehouse to the west of the site 903m². Extension to existing external canopy to the east for covered external retail 916m². Demolition of existing storage building and bungalow on site to allow for increased parking. Extension and alterations to existing café including single storey extensions external food to go/BBQ area and staff area. Converting and refurbishing existing listed bothy/hothouse for use as retail space. Protected structure ref: KD011-028. Proposed new signage and advertising totems to entrance. Associated engineering works and site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201417

• 19 Nov 2020N/a

  alterations to existing garden centre retail spaces including retention of first floor retail areas 574m², new access and entrance. Proposed new 2 storey extension to provide storage warehouse to the west of the site 903m². Extension to existing external canopy to the east for covered external retail 916m². Demolition of existing storage building and bungalow on site to allow for increased parking. Extension and alterations to existing café including single storey extensions external food to go / BBQ area and staff area. Converting and refurbishing existing listed bothy/ hothouse for use as retail space. Protected structure ref: KD011-028. Proposed new signage and advertising totems to entrance. Associated engineering works and site works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201393

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of St. Wolstans.

Recorded monuments

• KD011-014 Religious house - Augustinian canons
  Description

  St Wolstan's, known as 'Scala Caeli' - 'Steps of Heaven', was founded by Richard, the first prior, and Adam de Hereford c. 1205 for the Augustinian canons of St Victor. The priory was suppressed in 1536 when Richard Weston, the last prior, was seized of the site (with gardens, orchards, cottages, etc) and the property was granted to John Allen, Lord Chancellor (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 193). On a short, gentle, N-facing pasture slope on the S bank of the R. Liffey. The very poorly preserved remains are very similar in layout to the Augustinian Priory at Athassel, Co. Tipperary (TS068-013----), founded slightly earlier, c. 1200. No ecclesiastical buildings survive and the upstanding remains comprise the defensive, enclosing elements of the priory. An inner rectangular area (dims. L c. 100m E-W; Wth c. 80m N-S) immediately S of the river is defined along the W and N by a small tributary of the Liffey, and by a partially stone-faced drain or fosse along the E. A faint fosse along the S noted in 1985 (SMR file) is no longer clearly visible. The inner area was entered via a main gatehouse mid-way along the S side, and there is a second, small gate (postern gate?) mid-way along the E. A third, outer gateway, c. 180m to the SE, marks the outer extent of the priory. The OS 6-inch map records a fourth 'Gate' located almost midway between the main inner and outer gates, of which no visible surface trace survives: it was drawn by A. Cooper in 1782 as a two storied, circular tower with a significant crack running up its full height, and fell c. 1830 (Cane 1920, 55, 59). The main inner gatehouse is a partially ivy-clad, substantial, three-storied, rectangular structure (ext. dims. L 11.15m E-W; Wth 6.6m N-S) with a small, rectangular, stairs-tower at the S end of the E wall (ext. dims. L 3.13m N-S; Wth 2.2m E-W). Built of roughly coursed, undressed limestone blocks, there is a slight base batter on the N wall. A very tall archway (dims. H c. 6m; L 6.6m N-S; Wth 2.7m E-W) on the E side of the structure is flanked on the W by a rectangular guardroom entered from the archway through a round-arched doorway at the N end of its E wall. Corbel stones mark first-floor level and there is a vaulted ceiling (N-S) above the first floor. The ground floor is lit by a double-splayed loop in the N wall, while the first floor is lit by a pointed-arched window in the N wall. The spiral stairs is accessed through a round-arched doorway in the N wall of the tower, and lit by a loop at ground and first-floor level. There is no longer access from the stairs to the area above the archway and guardroom. Farm sheds and a silage pit are built, almost abutting this gatehouse. The surviving portion of the smaller gate on the E side stands forward of (8m outside) the fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.7m) defining the inner enclosure. Now no more than an ivy-clad, single-storied wall, built of coursed, roughly dressed, limestone blocks (dims. L 5m N-S; T 1.7m), rounded at its N end with traces of a step on its inner face at N, it contains a tall, round arched doorway (H 2.25m; Wth 1.23m). A grassed-over causeway crosses the fosse inside. A small tower stands in the NE sector of the inner enclosure. Built of coursed, roughly dressed limestone blocks, this three-storied, almost square structure (ext. dims. L 5m N-S; Wth 4.5m E-W) has a small, rectangular, four-storied, turret (ext. dims. L 2.1m E-W; Wth 0.75m N-S) at its SW angle which helps accommodate a spiral stairs. It appears to be a folly: externally at first-floor level, the faces of the W, N and E wall are stepped out beyond the wall faces below and each floor is lit by Gothic-arch style windows. The third, outer gateway, c. 180m to the SE of the main gatehouse to the inner enclosure, marks the S extent of the priory. A rectangular structure (dims. L 6.75m E-W; Wth 5.05m N-S) built of coursed, roughly dressed limestone blocks, it contains a tall archway (dims. H c. 4.4m; L 5.05m N-S; Wth 2.95m E-W) flanked on the E by an intramural stairs entered through a square-headed doorway in the N wall, and lit by a robbed-out loop in the SE angle. Short fragments of two walls running E (L 1.65m; T 0.6m) and W (L 2.05m; T 0.9m) from the SE and SW angles of the gateway appear to be the vestiges of a curtain wall. There are historical references to several mills at St Wolstan's (Boylan 1972, 141, 146), of which no visible surface traces survive. (Kirkpatrick 1896-99, 283-288; Lyster 1903-5, 101; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 101; Harbison 1972, 136-40; Meagher 1979-80, 118) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-028 House - 17th century
  Description

  According to Bence-Jones (1978, 253), the house originally belonged to the Alen family and was 'said to have been built in the early 17th century by John Allen, the architect of Strafford's great palace at Naas (Jigginstown House (KD019-033001-)). Subsequently much altered and now of 18th century aspect: 3 storey, 5 bay, gable-ended centre block with 2 storey overlapping wings. … Interior remodelled 1830's'. Currently in use as a convent. Inaccessible on date of visit (June 2000). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of St. Wolstans.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2938 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names St. Wolstans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

St. Wolstans

Area

446,146 m² (44.61 ha, 110.25 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghcumper, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Donaghcumper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymadeer, Ballyoulster, Castletown, Coneyburrow, Donaghcumper, Parsonstown

Placenames

St. Wolstans 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.