Stephenstown South
Townland in the civil parish of Killashee, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 96 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stephenstown South, from 16 m² to 246,784 m² (24.68 ha, 60.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Stephenstown South 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
13 May 2026Conditional
(A) Retention permission for single storey building on site, (B) Planning permission for the change of use of the existing building into a two bedroom dwelling house, (C) the installation of an wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area to serve the new dwelling house and (D) upgrading of existing entrance to a double vehicular recessed entrance with access driveway to serve the new dwelling and all associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660510
12 Nov 2025Conditional
of amendments to planning permission 19/1100 as follows: (a) As constructed attic for domestic storage area at 1st floor level to existing house (b) As constructed single storey front extension porch to existing house (c) Window at rear elevation at 1st floor level to existing house (d) As constructed side extension to existing house and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561273
15 Jul 2025Conditional
for the construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling house and all associated site development works to complete the development. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the relocation of the percolation area by a few meters to achieve adherence with the EPA code of practice
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560801
13 Jun 2025Conditional
for (a) a single storey rear extension and replacement of a gable dormer with 2 no. flat roof dormer windows on the rear roof slope; (b) the replacement of 2 no. pitched roof dormer windows with flat roof dormer windows on the front roof slope; (c) alterations to the existing hipped roof on the front elevation providing a glazed gable and flat roof to an existing ground floor bay window; (d) alterations and extension to an existing single storey detached garage providing a home gym, shed & boiler room with attic storage above; (e) alterations to front boundary wall and widening of existing entrance gate on the public road; (f) all associated site and landscaping works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560661
13 Sept 2024Refused
for road infrastructure, vehicular entrances, services, lighting, block wall boundary treatment, Public Open Space and all associated site works required for the provision of 7 no. residential serviced sites. The proposed dwellings, on-site wastewater treatment systems and associated landscaping/boundary treatment for each serviced sites will be the subject of future individual planning applications by the owner of each site
Permission, 7 homes · Kildare County Council, 2460905
30 Apr 2024Conditional
for retention and completion of lower ground level / basement level plan measuring 254 sqm to existing dormer style dwelling, along with all associated site development and facilitating works including site landscaping
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460387
20 Feb 2024Conditional
for dwelling with attached garage and plant room as built which comprises of minor changes/alterations from that granted under planning permission Reg. Ref. 22/1218. These alterations include revised elevational detailing, fenestration & roof re-arrangements, solar photo voltaic panels to the southeast & southwest elevations at ground & first floor roof levels and associated siteworks, including retaining the use of the kerb dishing originally designated to site No. 6
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460138
22 Nov 2022Conditional
Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 16/645 - 13 no. detached dwellings consisting of 9 no. four bedroom, storey and a half dwelling houses with a single storey extension to the side together with 4 no. three bedroom storey and a half dwelling houses, a new site entrance and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a revised site layout and access arrangements, revisions to the proposed house types to incorporate an increase in the overall housing mix to provide 4 no. three-bedroom storey and a half dwellings, 3 no. four-bedroom storey and a half dwellings and 6 no. five-bed storey and a half dwellings (total 13 no. storey and half dwellings)
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 221391
11 Oct 2022Conditional
development at a 0.17-hectare site located to the south west of Stephenstown Lawns, Two Mile House, Naas. The development comprises the construction of 1 No. 5 bedroom two storey dwelling, with side (north-west) single storey attached garage for the parking of two vehicles, with an additional two surface car parking spaces, and side (north-west and south-east) single storey element. The proposed dwelling includes rooflight windows and velux windows. The proposed development also includes a new entrance to adjoining Chapel Hill residential development, landscaping works, including boundary treatment, and all associated site works and services. The proposed development involves the amalgamation of plots 5 (detached 2 storey 5 bedroom dwelling) and 6 (detached 2 storey 4 bedroom dwelling), approved in Kildare County Council Reg. Ref. 16/645 / An Bord Pleanála (ABP) Ref. PL09.248860, forming 1 plot and detached 2 storey 5 bedroom dwelling subject of this application
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221218
5 Oct 2022Conditional
(a) Sub-division of the existing site at 12 Stephenstown Lawns, Two Mile House. (b) Construction of a new 3 bedroom two-storey/split level dwelling and new wastewater treatment system on new sub-divided site. (c) New vehicle entrance to service the existing dwelling, along with all associated site development and facilitating works including site landscaping . Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the redesign of the existing vehicle entrance to provide a double recessed vehicle entrance serving both the existing dwelling and the proposed new dwelling.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221197
29 Jul 2022Conditional
sought for the following modifications to an existing domestic shed: (a) Extension to the rear; (b) Conversion of both existing and new first floor space to storage use; (c) Subdivision and partial change of use from domestic shed to home gym at ground level; (d) New first floor level gable windows and minor window/door alterations to ground level window and door arrangements; (e) Solar panels to the south facing (front) roof plane; (f) Connection to all existing on-site services, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22935
9 Feb 2022Conditional
a proposed new detached Garden Recreation Room (27 sq M floor area) to rear garden and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22134
16 Nov 2021Refused
Extension of Duration of Planning File Ref. 16/645 - 13 no. detached dwellings consisting of 9 no. four bedroom, storey and a half dwelling houses with a single storey extension to the side together with 4 no. three bedroom storey and a half dwelling houses, a new site entrance and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a revised site layout and access arrangements, revisions to the proposed house types to incorporate an increase in the overall housing mix to provide 4 no. three-bedroom storey and a half dwellings, 3 no. four-bedroom storey and a half dwellings and 6 no. five-bed storey and a half dwellings (total 13 no. storey and half dwellings)
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 211620
31 May 2021Conditional
Planning permission is sought for replacement of the existing dormers to the front with zinc clad dormers, relocating the front door along the front elevation, construction of a new zinc clad dormer and new rooflights to the rear roof, replacement of existing windows and external doors, alterations to the existing entrance gates, minor internal and external elevational alterations, all to the existing detached dormer dwelling.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21756
3 Mar 2021Conditional
(a) Internal alterations and elevational modifications to all of the elevations of the existing single storey dwelling. (b) Retention of the existing single storey garage/garden store located to the rear of the dwelling, along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21252
9 Mar 2020Conditional
Phase 1 Development: permission for the construction of a community building consisting of a mixed-use community hall (with double height element), permission for a single storey element (front door, toilets and plant room), connecting glass atrium to existing school, removal of approx. 1100 cubic metres of soil (and consequent reduction of site levels to be consistent with existing ground levels around the school), connection to existing secondary effluent treatment system on site and all associated site works. Phase 2 Development: Permission for the construction of a single storey community building consisting to adjoin Phase 1 Development consisting of meeting rooms, kitchen, sport equipment storage rooms, offices, reception and ancillary rooms, connection to existing secondary effluent treatment system on site and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20231
4 Oct 2019Conditional
the demolition of single storey side and rear extension, demolition of front porch, construction of replacement front porch, single storey side and rear extension and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191100
30 Sept 2019Conditional
of 2 No. Agricultural Sheds as constructed and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 191082
16 Aug 2019Conditional
extension and alterations to the front of the existing dwelling to include (a) Proposed new single storey flat roofed extension to provide a dining area, guest toilet, new entrance and lobby area; (b) Minor alterations to window and door openings to side and rear elevations; (c) Removal of the existing recessed vehicle entrance and the construction of a new recessed vehicle entrance approximately 20m east of the existing entrance, along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19926
31 May 2019Conditional
The demolition of existing single storey rear extension, permission for the construction of a one and a half storey rear extension with single storey element to existing semi-detached bungalow and permission to install a new front door to internalise the existing open porch of existing house, permission for a new dormer window to rear roof plane and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19620
20 Mar 2019Conditional
(a) Demolition of existing flat roof extension to rear of existing farm house and demolition of existing galvanised roofed outbuilding; (b) Two storey extension to side (north east) elevation of existing farm house and single storey extension to rear (north west) elevation; (c) Alterations to rear (north west) elevation consisting of insertion of new windows and minor internal alterations within the existing house; (d) Planning for garage for domestic use with 10 No. horse stables, tackroom, loft storage and wash down area to the north west side of existing farm house; (e) The installation of a septic tank with percolation area, and (f) Upgrading of existing field gate to a new vehicular recessed entrance to serve the house and stable block on the side road L6073 and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19285
7 Sept 2018Conditional
construction of a community building consisting of a mixed- use community hall (with double height element), connecting glass atrium to existing school with associated meeting rooms, sport equipment storage rooms and ancillary rooms (all single storey height element),removal of approx.700 cubic metres of soil ( and consequent reduction of site levels to be consistent with existing ground levels around the school), connection to existing secondary effluent treatment system on site and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181098
10 Jul 2018Conditional
the construction of a new storey and a half dwelling with habitable attic space, the provision of a new effluent treatment system with a 45sqm polishing filter and the provision of a new recessed site entrance, together with all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18826
12 Mar 2018Conditional
single storey detached garage to the side of existing house. The works will include minor modifications to the previously approved planning application reg ref. 16/359 for works to the main dwelling, together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18258
3 Nov 2017Conditional
building a new gable to replace the existing hip roof to front, to convert the attic space to habitable rooms, to demolish the attached garage and roof space and for it's re-construction as habitable rooms (phase 2), for minor fenestration alterations, associated site works and to install septic system upgrade
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171232
The 25 most recent of 28 applications.
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 Stephenstown South.
Recorded monuments
- KD024-048001 Enclosure
Description
One of three, small circular cropmarks (KD024-048001-, KD024-048002- and KD024-048003-) visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N 337-6). Located on a low ridge in well-drained pasture. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 09 July 2012
- KD024-048002 Enclosure
Description
One of three, small circular cropmarks (KD024-048001-, KD024-048002- and KD024-048003-) visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N 337-6). Located on a low ridge in well-drained pasture. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 09 July 2012
- KD024-048003 Enclosure
Description
One of three, small circular cropmarks (KD024-048001-, KD024-048002- and KD024-048003-) visible on an aerial photograph (GSI N 337-6). Located on a low ridge in well-drained pasture. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 09 July 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stephenstown South.
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 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 Stephenstown South.
- 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 Stephenstown South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Stephenstown South
- Area
- 959,882 m² (95.99 ha, 237.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas South
- Electoral division
- Ladytown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ladytown electoral division: 990 people in 317 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dowdingstown, Dunnstown, Harristown Common, Mylerstown, Stephenstown North, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Stephenstown South 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.