# Turnerstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Moone, barony of Narragh and Reban East, Co. Kildare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 498,903 m² (49.89 ha, 123.28 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,618 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Moone, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/moone.md
- Barony: Narragh and Reban East
- Electoral division: Grangemellon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 647 people lived in 227 households in the Grangemellon electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25104
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81202
- Centre: latitude 52.991931, longitude -6.912743 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turnerstown, from 1,340 m² to 177,671 m² (17.77 ha, 43.9 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1055001: 177,671 m² (17.77 ha, 43.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1055001.md
- Parcel 1021752: 159,493 m² (15.95 ha, 39.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021752.md
- Parcel 1068959: 133,942 m² (13.39 ha, 33.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068959.md
- Parcel 3294937: 8,820 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3294937.md
- Parcel 3361149: 2,954 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3361149.md
- Parcel 1067119: 2,618 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1067119.md
- Parcel 2658145: 2,587 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2658145.md
- Parcel 4769932: 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4769932.md
- Parcel 1040522: 1,998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040522.md
- Parcel 1025031: 1,775 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025031.md
- Parcel 1053937: 1,340 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053937.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Turnerstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 2 Sept 2022, Kildare County Council 221073: Conditional. Permission. alterations and refurbishment of an existing single storey dwelling including demolition of existing flat roofed extensions to the rear; a new single storey extension to rear/north; erection of detached garage and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/221073/0
- 21 Mar 2022, Kildare County Council 22313: Refused. Permission, 1 home. A. constructing a part single storey & part 2 storey dwelling, B. constructing a detached single storey garage and home office C. installation of a new waste water treatment system, D. alterations to existing driveway serving Turnerstown House and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22313/0
- 16 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21868: Refused. Permission, 1 home. A. constructing a part single storey & part 2 storey dwelling, B. constructing a detached single storey garage and home office C. installation of a new wastewater treatment system, D. alterations to existing driveway serving Turnerstown house and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21868/0
- 28 May 2021, Kildare County Council 21752: N/a. Permission, 1 home. The development will consist of : A. constructing a part single storey & part 2-storey dwelling, B. constructing detached single storey garage and home office C. installation of a new wastewater treatment system, D. alterations to existing driveway serving Turnerstown house and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21752/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KD035-029001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD035-029001-. On level ground overlooking a gentle E-facing slope in tillage. According to Fitzsymons (1906, 104-5), ‘… the ruins of Whitechurch (Kilbawn) … now form part of the mearin-ditch between the townlands of Turnerstown and Fox-hill (formerly called Knockshannagh). Very little now remains of the ruins, as only the walls, very much dilapidated, of a small oblong building are visible (int. 24.5 ft. [c. 7.47m] E-W; 14 ft [c. 4.27m] N-S; wall T 2ft 4 ins. [c. 0.71m]); at the west end the wall is five feet high [c. 1.52m]; they are nearly level with the ground on the north and east sides; the surrounding burial ground [KD035-029002-] is entirely obliterated.’ Fitzsymons shows a doorway (Wth 4.5 ft. [c. 1.37m]) near the W end of the S wall on his plan of the church (op. cit.). In 1985, the surviving walls, built of small undressed mortared limestone boulders, were only 0.9m high, the entrance was no longer identifiable and the field was ploughed up to the base of the church walls (SMR file). When re-inspected in 1996, the walls had been removed: an almost square patch of unploughed clay (18m E-W; 16m N-S) in a ploughed field marked the site of the church (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 December 2013
- KD035-029002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD035-029002-. On level ground overlooking a gentle E-facing slope in tillage. Not recorded on any edition of the OS mapping, and according to Fitzsymons (1906, 105), ‘… the surrounding burial-ground [ie. surrounding Whitechurch church (KD035-029001-)] is entirely obliterated.’ In 1986, the church was found to have been destroyed; an almost square patch of unploughed clay (18m E-W; 16m N-S) in a ploughed field marking its site, and no visible surface trace of an associated graveyard was noted(SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 December 2013

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Turnerstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2505, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2505.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnerstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnerstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnerstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Turnerstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballycullane: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballycullane.md
- Foxhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/foxhill.md
- Inch: https://everytownland.com/kildare/inch.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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