Usk

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Usk, from 27 m² to 185,105 m² (18.51 ha, 45.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Usk 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.

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  the retention of a domestic garage and store room and associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561282

• 24 Sept 2025N/a

  Full planning permission for the retention of a domestic garage and store room and associated site works at 1992 Baronsland, Usk, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, W91 EK7H.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561083

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  single storey dwelling house, onsite secondary sewerage treatment system, new entrance on to public road, domestic garage, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560415

• 21 Aug 2019Conditional

  Backfilling of a former sand and gravel pit to its former ground level using approximately 1,240,000 tonnes of imported natural inert waste materials and/or suitable by-product materials, principally soil and stone generated by construction and development projects; Establishment and operation of an inert soil waste recovery facility to provide for the recovery through backfilling, of natural inert soil and stone waste; Installation of site infrastructure including site offices, staff welfare facilities, weighbridge (with dedicated office), wheelwash facility, hardstand areas, fuel storage tanks and site access roads; Use of an existing storage shed as a waste inspection and quarantine facility and for storage of plant and equipment; Separation of any intermixed construction and demolition waste (principally concrete, metal, timber, PVC pipes and plastic) inadvertently imported to site prior to removal off-site to authorized waste disposal or recovery facilities; Temporary stockpiling of imported topsoil pending re-use as cover material for the final restoration of the site; Restoration of the final backfilled landform to long-term grassland/agricultural use. The proposed development requires a waste licence from the Environmental Protection Agency. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the Planning Authority in connection with the application, for development. Revised by significant further information consisting of; Updated information in Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR). Flood Risk Assessment. New on-site Wastewater Treatment System. Surface Water Management. Road Condition Survey, Road Safety Audit and Sightline Assessment. Invasive Species Management Plan

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19949

• 14 Aug 2019N/a

  Backfilling of a former sand and gravel pit to its former ground level using approximately 1,240,000 tonnes of imported natural inert waste materials and/or suitable by-product materials, principally soil and stone generated by construction and development projects; Establishment and operation of an inert soil waste recovery facility to provide for the recovery through backfilling, of natural inert soil and stone waste;Installation of site infrastructure including site offices, staff welfare facilities, weighbridge (with dedicated office), wheelwash facility, hardstand areas, fuel storage tanks, and site access roads;Use of an existing storage shed as a waste inspection and quarantine facility and for storage of plant and equipment; Separation of any intermixed construction and demolition waste (principally concrete, metal, timber, PVC pipes and plastic) inadvertently imported to site prior to removal off-site to authorized waste disposal or recovery facilities; Temporary stockpiling of imported topsoil pending re-use as cover material for the final restoration of the site; Retoration of the final backfilled landform to long-term grassland/agricultural use. The proposed development requires a waste licence from the Environmental Protection Agency

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19920

• 1 Apr 2019Refused

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19341

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  to construct a granny flat extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house to include a kitchen, dining area, bathroom, hall, bedroom, sitting room and to convert and extend boiler house to a bedroom and to update existing septic tank and install a new percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181548

• 1 Oct 2018Refused

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181196

• 15 Dec 2017Conditional

  for (a) Garage as constructed on site and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171430

• 17 Nov 2017Refused

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, on site waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works. As well as modifying the existing vehicular entrance onto the public road to form two new entrances

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171291

• 30 Jun 2017Conditional

  the construction of a (1) cubicle shed incorporating slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17763

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunlavin Marshes 001772

Recorded monuments

• KD032-020 House - fortified house
  Description

  Shown on Noble and Keenan’s 1752 Map of County Kildare as a large house and also recorded by Taylor on his 1783 map of the county. In 1837, according to O’Conor (Herity 2002, 96 [28]) who co-compiled the OSL for County Kildare, ‘In the S.W. side of Usk townland are the ruins of a dwelling house called a Castle by the people.’ By the time the OS 25-inch map was drawn, the ‘Castle’ was recorded ‘Site of’, ie destroyed. It was possibly a fortified house rather than a tower house or castle proper. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2013

• KD032-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture overlooking lower rushy ground to the SE and overlooked by a moderately steep-sided ridge SSW-N-NNE. A poorly preserved oval area (int. 30.3m E-W; 23m; N-S) is enclosed by a low broad earthen bank (int. H 0.1-0.3m; Wth across top 2.1m at S-6.1m at N; ext H 0.3-1.1m) and by a shallow outer fosse (D 0.1-0.8m; Wth at base 1.5-3.2m). A denuded gap (Wth 3.6m) in the enclosing bank at W has a corresponding causeway across the fosse outside. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 25 October 2013

• KD032-091 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped ring ditch (approx. diam. 6m) visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 28/06/2018. See attached image taken from Google Earth. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Seán Sourke Date of upload: 20 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Usk, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Usk.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Usk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Usk · Uisce

Area

2,286,597 m² (228.66 ha, 565.03 acres)

Civil parish

Usk, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Usk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

566 people lived in 194 households in the Usk electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baronsland, Brewel East or Merville, Brewel West, Gilbinstown, Kilgowan, Killinane, Kingsland, Knockandort (Co. Wicklow), Milltown (Co. Wicklow), Usk Little

Placenames

Usk 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.