# Walterstown Lower, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Walterstown, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,076,910 m² (107.69 ha, 266.11 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,367 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Walterstown, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/walterstown.md - Barony: Offaly West - Electoral division: Nurney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25238 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81214 - Centre: latitude 53.115153, longitude -6.923068 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1014875: 173,516 m² (17.35 ha, 42.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014875.md - Parcel 1015496: 163,964 m² (16.4 ha, 40.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015496.md - Parcel 1018614: 160,025 m² (16 ha, 39.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018614.md - Parcel 1072371: 80,586 m² (8.06 ha, 19.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072371.md - Parcel 1085829: 60,375 m² (6.04 ha, 14.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1085829.md - Parcel 1070871: 59,140 m² (5.91 ha, 14.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070871.md - Parcel 1021594: 43,947 m² (4.39 ha, 10.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021594.md - Parcel 1038190: 38,074 m² (3.81 ha, 9.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038190.md - Parcel 1060304: 21,190 m² (2.12 ha, 5.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1060304.md - Parcel 4924111: 18,367 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4924111.md - Parcel 1012895: 12,589 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012895.md - Parcel 1056577: 11,394 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056577.md - Parcel 1066822: 4,488 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066822.md - Parcel 6085448: 3,922 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6085448.md - Parcel 1047099: 3,756 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1047099.md - Parcel 1068575: 3,487 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068575.md - Parcel 3233060: 3,184 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3233060.md - Parcel 1066899: 2,987 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066899.md - Parcel 1049313: 2,513 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1049313.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 21 Aug 2023, Kildare County Council 2360131: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360131/0 - 16 Aug 2023, Kildare County Council 2360122: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360122/0 - 30 Sept 2022, Kildare County Council 221184: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Planning permission for a one storey house, effluent treatment system & polishing filetr, recessed entrance and all associated siteworks.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/221184/0 - 30 Aug 2019, Kildare County Council 19981: N/a. Permission. sought for hay barn, grain store, cattle shed, access drive, recessed entrance, reclamation of uncultivated land and change of use to agriculture use. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19981/0 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 Walterstown Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walterstown Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Walterstown Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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_2501, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2501.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/walterstown-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/walterstown-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/walterstown-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Blackditch: https://everytownland.com/kildare/blackditch.md - Kingsbog or Common: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kingsbog-or-common.md - Maddenstown Middle: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maddenstown-middle.md - Maddenstown South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/maddenstown-south.md - Tully West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tully-west.md - Walterstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/walterstown-81216.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/walterstown-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/walterstown-lower