Walterstown Lower

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walterstown Lower, from 2,513 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 173,516 m² (17.35 ha, 42.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Walterstown Lower 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.

• 21 Aug 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360131

• 16 Aug 2023N/a

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

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360122

• 30 Sept 2022Refused

  Planning permission for a one storey house, effluent treatment system & polishing filetr, recessed entrance and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221184

• 30 Aug 2019N/a

  sought for hay barn, grain store, cattle shed, access drive, recessed entrance, reclamation of uncultivated land and change of use to agriculture use

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19981

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 Walterstown Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walterstown Lower.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Walterstown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Walterstown Lower

Area

1,076,910 m² (107.69 ha, 266.11 acres)

Civil parish

Walterstown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Nurney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Nurney electoral division: 1,196 people in 361 households; 86% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackditch, Kingsbog or Common, Maddenstown Middle, Maddenstown South, Tully West, Walterstown

Placenames

Walterstown Lower 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.