Strawhall
Townland in the civil parish of Kildare, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 15.8 ha
- 39 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 2,606 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Strawhall, from 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 153,693 m² (15.37 ha, 37.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Strawhall 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
14 May 2021Conditional
Retention as constructed for. 1). 2 No. vehicle entrances to the site opening to the public roadway and the Curragh plains. 2). Internal roadways, paths, and landscaping works. 3). Existing sand gallops and sand arena. Planning Permission also required for the construction of the following buildings and structures. 4). Alterations to the existing main vehicle entrance to the public roadway, to provide a recessed entrance. 5). Single storey office/administration building (23sqm). 6). Machinery barn storage building (263sqm), 7). Single storey managers accommodation (73sqm). 8). 2 no. single storey staff cabins (37sqm x 2). 9). 4 No. horse walkers (131sqm X 4). 10). 2 No. horse barns, each with 28 stables (1277sqm x 2). 11). Horse exercise pool (800sqm). 12). Covered dungsted building (42sqm). Along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Retention, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 21670
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 Strawhall.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Strawhall.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Strawhall.
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 Strawhall.
- 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 Strawhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Strawhall
- Area
- 158,386 m² (15.84 ha, 39.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Kildare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kildare electoral division: 11,587 people in 3,873 households; 64% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curragh, Curraghfarm, Tully East
- Placenames
- Strawhall 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.