Straffan Demesne

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straffan Demesne, from 13 m² to 830,486 m² (83.05 ha, 205.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Straffan Demesne 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  for minor alterations to the existing dwelling, to include: The addition of a new garage structure (31.36 sq. m.) to the front of the dwelling; A ‘privacy wall’ extending from the existing dwelling to the new garage structure; The addition of a new side door to the west-facing elevation; Ground floor rear extension (31.07sq. m.) with expanded first-floor terrace above (33.17sq. m.); All associated engineering works, landscaping, and ancillary development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461383

• 12 Dec 2024N/a

  for minor alterations to the existing dwelling, to include: The addition of a new garage structure (31.36 sq. m.) to the front of the dwelling; A ‘privacy wall’ extending from the existing dwelling to the new garage structure; The addition of a new side door to the west-facing elevation; Ground floor rear extension (31.07sq. m.) with expanded first-floor terrace above (33.17sq. m.); All associated engineering works, landscaping, and ancillary development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461332

• 3 Dec 2024N/a

  for minor alterations to the existing dwelling, to include: The addition of a new garage structure (31.36 sq. m.) to the front of the dwelling; A ‘privacy wall’ extending from the existing dwelling to the new garage structure; The addition of a new side door to the west-facing elevation; Ground floor rear extension (31.07sq. m.) with expanded first-floor terrace above (33.17sq. m.); All associated engineering works, landscaping, and ancillary development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461295

• 14 Apr 2022Conditional

  for development at 685 and 686, The Garden Courtyard Apartments, The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare (Eircode W23 WK51 and W23 Y402) part of Straffan Demesne, a Protected Structure Ref: B14-29. The development consists of the retention of a change of use from use as two dwellings, to use as a single dwelling including external and internal alterations

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22432

• 17 Jan 2022Conditional

  The development consists of the retention of a change of use from use as two dwellings, to use as a single dwelling including external and internal alterations (part of Straffan Demesne, a Protected Structure Ref: B14-29)

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2232

• 12 Nov 2020Conditional

  extensions and alterations to East wing of existing Hotel Building to provide a new Function Room, entrance areas and ancillary spaces to include a new build floor area of c. 1,624 sqm and refurbishment/remodelling of part of existing building c. 484 sqm. The development will comprise: (1) removal of existing former single storey swimming pool to the South and outbuildings/service yard to the North; (2) internal alterations to the existing building; (3) lower ground floor level extension and alterations: new single storey Function Room, kitchen area, staff areas, toilets, bar, stores and plant room; (4) upper ground floor level extension and alterations to include: new entrance areas, bar area, glazed circulation link to existing Hotel building, new toilets, stores, meeting room and new stairs and lifts: (5) first floor extension and alterations to include new meeting rooms, circulation and stairs. The development also includes alterations to existing facades along with external works including upgrading existing service road to the North to form an access road to Function Room external entrance and link to existing car park; associated landscaping works; drainage; paths and ancillary works. Straffan House and gates is a Protected Structure. All

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201362

• 12 Feb 2020Conditional

  the retention of minor amendments to the existing dwelling to include an extended balcony at first-floor level to the rear of the dwelling, additional internal floor space at first-floor level, new double doors opening on to the extended balcony, new double doors opening on to the paved garden area to the rear of the dwelling, a new horizontal window at first floor level to the front of the dwelling, a new flat roof and entrance canopy to replace the previously approved flat roof and entrance canopy, and a new glass screen/louvred panel feature to replace the previously approved stone columns at the front of the dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20118

• 13 Dec 2019N/a

  of minor amendments to the existing dwelling to include an extended balcony at first floor level to the rear of the dwelling, additional internal floorspace at first floor level, new double doors opening on to the extended balcony, new double doors opening on to the paved garden area to the rear of the dwelling, a new horizontal window at first floor level to the front of the dwelling, a new flat roof and entrance canopy to replace the previously approved flat roof and entrance canopy, and a new glass screen/louvred panel feature to replace the previously approved stone columns at the front of the dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 191378

• 25 Oct 2019N/a

  for the retention and completion of amendments to the existing dwelling at 18 Churchfields, The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare. The development consists of minor amendments to the existing dwelling to include an extended balcony at first floor level to the rear of the dwelling, additional internal floor space at first floor level, new double doors opening on to the extended balcony, new double doors opening on to the paved garden area to the rear of the dwelling, a new horizontal window at first floor level to the front of the dwelling, a new flat roof entrance canopy to replace existing entrance canopy, and a new glass screen/louvred panel feature to replace the existing stone columns at the front of the dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191190

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  of: (a) General internal layout alterations; (b) Ground floor level single storey bedroom extension to the side of existing house; (c) Minor modifications to existing ground floor windows on south west elevation; (d) Partial removal of existing first floor level external terrace to side of existing house replaced with dressing room extension accessed off existing master bedroom seating area; (e) The installation of timber entrance gates and piers in front driveway and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 1927

• 20 Nov 2018N/a

  (a) General internal layout alterations; (b) Ground floor level single storey bedroom extension to the side of existing house; (c) Minor modifications to existing ground floor windows on south west elevation; (d) Partial removal of existing first floor level external terrace to side of existing house replaced with dressing room extension accessed off existing master bedroom seating area; (d) The installation of timber entrance gates and piers in front driveway and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 181401

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 Straffan Demesne.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Straffan Demesne.

Architectural heritage

• Straffan House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1835, comprising pair of cut-limestone piers with moulded cornices, decorative ball finials, cast-iron double gates and cut-limestone flanking walls having square-headed pedestrian gateways (appearing as segmental-headed from north-west) with decorative cast-iron gates.

• Weir, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Diagonal weir, c.1930, with cast-iron sluice gate/hydraulic dam to south retaining original mechanisms. Sited spanning River Liffey.

• Straffan House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Sections of rubble stone boundary walls, c.1835.

• Straffan House, gate lodge, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1835, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey canted bay window to side elevation to south-east and single-bay single-storey lower return to rear to north-east having single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking bay to east. Now in use as offices. Gable-ended roof on a T-shaped plan with slate (polygonal to canted bay window; lean-to to flanking bay). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Overhanging timber eaves on paired brackets. Timber bargeboards to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Painted. Rendered block-and-start detailing to corners. Square-headed openings (including to canted bay window to south-east). Stone sills (continuous to canted bay window). Block-and-start surrounds. 8/6 round-headed timber sash windows. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1995. Set back from road in grounds shared with Straffan House (Hotel) adjacent to tarmacadam avenue with side (south-east) elevation fronting on to road.

• Straffan House, country house, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey country house with dormer attic, built 1832, retaining some original fenestration with single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront and nine-bay rear elevation to south having three-bay two-storey bowed projecting bay to centre. Extended, c.1850, comprising four-bay two-storey flat-roofed lower wing to east with single-bay four-stage Italianate campanile tower to north on a square plan. Renovated and truncated, c.1937, with entrance bay remodelled and pediment added. Renovated and extended, post 1949, with truncated portion restored and single-bay two-storey recessed end bay added to west having original prostyle tetrastyle Ironic portico inserted to ground floor. Extended, c.1990, comprising ten-bay two-storey wing with dormer attic to west on a cranked plan having pair of single-bay two-storey bowed projecting bays to south and three-bay three-storey split-level linking bay to east on a polygonal plan. Extended, c.2000, comprising eleven-bay two-storey wing with dormer attic to west having single-bay three-stage tower to north on a square plan. Now in use as hotel. Mansard roofs with slate (gabled to dormer attic windows). Rolled lead ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Rainwater goods not visible behind cut-stone blocking course. Flat-roofed to bowed projecting bays. Materials not visible behind cut-stone blocking courses. Rendered walls. Painted. Channelled to ground floor. Rendered dressings including moulded stringcourses, sill courses, quoined piers to corners and rendered band to eaves. Cut-stone blocking course to eaves with cut-stone surround to pediment. Moulded rendered dressings to original campanile tower including consoled string/sill courses and consoled cornice to top stage. Square-headed openings (including Venetian-style tripartite openings). Sills incorporated into plinth to ground floor. Moulded rendered string/sill course to first floor. Moulded rendered surrounds to first floor having pediments over (segmental to some openings). 3/3, 6/6 and 9/9 timber sash windows. Round-headed openings to ground floor breakfront. Moulded rendered surrounds. Glazed timber panelled double doors. Decorative fanlight. Lunette window to pediment. Cut-stone prostyle tetrastyle Ionic portico to additional entrance bay with frieze and moulded cornice. Round-headed openings to campanile tower (some paired) with moulded rendered surrounds and dressings. 1/1 round-headed timber sash windows to bottom stages. Fixed-pane timber casement windows to upper stages. Set back from road in own extensive landscaped grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt/carpark to front (north). Formal Italianate garden to rear (south) with pool and decorative fountain.

• Straffan House, stables, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey former stable complex, built 1832, on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard with single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront having round-headed integral carriageway, single-bay two-storey advanced end bays, ten-bay two-storey wings at right angles to east and to west, nine-bay two-storey wing to south completing quadrangle and originally with series of segmental-headed integral carriageways to interior of courtyard including second pedimented integral carriageway to south-east. Renovated, c.1995, to accommodate use as hotel. Hipped roof on a quadrangular plan with slate. Rolled lead ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on brackets. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Cut-limestone breakfront with pediment over having cut-stone surround. Cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners and stringcourse to first floor end bays. Cut-limestone to ground floor interior of courtyard with cut-limestone piers. Roughcast/pebbledashed to first floor. Square-headed window openings (in round-headed recessed niches to end bays having cut-limestone voussoirs). Stone sills. Cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds. 8/4 and 12/8 timber sash windows (some possibly replacement). Round-headed integral carriageway. Cut-limestone dressings including stringcourse to spring of arch and voussoirs. Some oculus windows to first floor to interior of courtyard. Cut-limestone voussoirs. Timber fittings. Series of segmental-headed integral carriageways to ground floor interior of courtyard remodelled, c.1995, to accommodate square-headed openings having glazed iron continuous canopy over on cast-iron pillars. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1995, on timber panelled plinths with decorative fanlights over. Replacement glazed timber double doors, c.1995, with sidelights and fanlights. Set back from road in grounds shared with Straffan House (Hotel). Tarmacadam drive off main avenue to front (north). Formal garden to courtyard.

• Turbine house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey mass-concrete hydro-electric turbine engine house, c.1930, retaining early fenestration. Gable-ended roof with concrete. Mass-concrete walls. Unpainted. Square-headed openings. No sills. Iron swivel windows. Iron double doors approached by flight of concrete steps. Sited on north bank of River Liffey.

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 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2801 (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 Straffan Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Straffan Demesne

Area

871,195 m² (87.12 ha, 215.28 acres)

Civil parish

Straffan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Straffan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Straffan electoral division: 2,513 people in 758 households; 83% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnoges, Glebe, Irishtown Lower, Ladycastle Lower, Lodgepark, Straffan

Placenames

Straffan Demesne 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.