Toghereen

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toghereen, from 186 m² to 114,038 m² (11.4 ha, 28.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Toghereen 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.

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  construction of a single storey extension to the side (east elevation), Front (north elevation) and Rear (south elevation). Alterations to the existing window fenestration on Front (north Elevation), side (west elevation) and amendments to the existing house internal room layout and the removal of the existing chimney and the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information that consist of: (a) A significant modification to the Site Layout Plan red line boundary. (b) A new Waste Water Treatment System.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660585

• 7 Nov 2022Conditional

  a single storey dwelling, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, accessed via a recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221328

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  for bungalow dwelling, adjoining garage, domestic storage sheds situated to rear of bungalow, changes to site boundary and an increased entrance width from 3.05 metres to 3.8 metres. Changes to bungalow include changes to floor plans, addition of rear hall and amendments to all four elevations. Also addition of adjoining garage mentioned above. It is planned that the existing septic tank and percolation area is decommissioned and a new septic tank and percolation area is installed as per site suitability assessment report to be included with application. The site to which the above relates to is located

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181379

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 Toghereen.

Recorded monuments

• KD022-013 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In level pasture. Marked 'Site of', i.e. non extant, on the latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survived in 1986 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 december 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2313 (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 Toghereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Toghereen

Area

622,897 m² (62.29 ha, 153.92 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Lackagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lackagh electoral division: 841 people in 265 households; 90% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clondown, Lackagh Beg, Mountrice, Tobercocka, Togherorymore

Placenames

Toghereen 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.