# Turnings, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare; in Irish Toirnín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 213,144 m² (21.31 ha, 52.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,285 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Whitechurch, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/whitechurch.md - Barony: Naas North - Electoral division: Bodenstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Bodenstown electoral division: 5,091 people in 1,700 households; 71% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25695 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81203 - Centre: latitude 53.289268, longitude -6.63653 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turnings, from 249 m² to 102,039 m² (10.2 ha, 25.21 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1065958: 102,039 m² (10.2 ha, 25.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065958.md - Parcel 1018348: 91,203 m² (9.12 ha, 22.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018348.md - Parcel 5704580: 3,713 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5704580.md - Parcel 1058703: 2,837 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058703.md - Parcel 1074148: 2,016 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074148.md - Parcel 1044566: 1,990 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1044566.md - Parcel 1014914: 1,623 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014914.md - Parcel 1056428: 1,603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056428.md - Parcel 1053678: 1,285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053678.md - Parcel 1021505: 1,233 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021505.md - Parcel 1027101: 843 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027101.md - Parcel 5768575: 648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5768575.md - Parcel 1013796: 546 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013796.md - Parcel 1081024: 510 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081024.md - Parcel 5669524: 474 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5669524.md - Parcel 4324464: 339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4324464.md - Parcel 1017157: 249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1017157.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Turnings 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 4 Aug 2021, Kildare County Council 211120: Conditional. Permission. the erection of new floodlighting, together with all associated siteworks, to serve the existing equestrian sand arena previously granted planning permission under planning references 19/597 and 20/874. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/211120/0 - 4 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21807: Conditional. Permission. the erection of a slatted cattle shed with a straw lie back and a silage base with all associated facilities and site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21807/0 - 10 Aug 2020, Kildare County Council 20874: Conditional. Permission. revisions to the proposed development previously granted planning permission under planning reference 19/597 to include the following: relocating the proposed stable block (5 no. Stables); associated concrete hard standing areas, manure pit, effluent holding tank and associated siteworks westwards away from the neighbouring property boundaries and away from its location as previously granted under planning reference 19/597; relocating the new sand arena, driveway and associated siteworks from its location as previously granted under planning reference 19/597; relocating the existing Machinery Store and all associated siteworks westwards away from neighbouring property boundaries & away from its location as previously granted under planning reference 19/597; replacing the existing septic tank and associated works with a proprietary waste water treatment system and associated siteworks in the same location; relocating the proposed Percolation Area & associated siteworks southwards away from neighbouring property boundaries & away from its location as previously granted under planning reference 19/597. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20874/0 - 28 May 2019, Kildare County Council 19597: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) A two storey rear extension to an existing cottage, associated alterations to all elevations to replace existing septic tank with an on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works; (2) Stable block with 5 No. stables, associated concrete hard standing area, dung stead and effluent holding tank, machinery store, sand arena and all associated site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; revised vehicular entrance details. Revised design of proposal to single storey. Retention of 42 sqm rear extension. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19597/0 - 1 Feb 2017, Kildare County Council 17100: Conditional. Retention, 3 homes. for: (a) Ground floor extension to rear of original dwelling house and porch to side measuring 60.5 square metres; (b) The conversion of the attic space to two store rooms measuring 44.5 square metres; (c) Boiler house/laundry room measuring 11.42 square metres; (d) Fuel store measuring 60.6 square metres, and full planning permission for the (e) Demolition and removal off site of lean-to shed constructed to side of fuel store and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17100/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Turnings. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Turnings. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Turnings. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2802, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2802.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/turnings.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnings.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnings.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Turnings, Straffan: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnings-straffan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Daars North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/daars-north.md - Ladycastle Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ladycastle-upper.md - Shortwood: https://everytownland.com/kildare/shortwood.md - Turnings Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnings-lower.md - Turnings Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnings-upper.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/turnings - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/turnings