Waterstown

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Waterstown, from 514 m² to 325,374 m² (32.54 ha, 80.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Waterstown 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.

• 11 May 2026N/a

  the construction of a dwelling, an onsite waste water treatment system, a domestic shed and connection to an existing road entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660507

• 28 Apr 2026Conditional

  Entrance onto L6005 Canal Road

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2654

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  for a) Conversion of existing stables for use as single storey section of proposed dwelling b) Storey and a half extension to side of existing stables c) provision of domestic garage d) on-site treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a revised site boundary and revised vehicular entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461307

• 27 Jun 2024Conditional

  for an amendment to previously granted planning permission under Reg. Ref. 02/917 to remove Condition Nos. 2 and 3 thereof ( which require the dwelling that was permitted at that time to be operated as a unit and not rented, sold or disposed of except as part of the overall landholding, and to be occupied by person(s) employed by the applicant) so as to permit a split of the overall landholding into two separate units which can be operated, occupied, rented, sold or otherwise disposed of independently, as follows: Development 1 - Main House (permission granted under Reg. Ref. 78/1737) with own existing entrance gates and circa 0.689 ha of lands. Development 2 - Subject dwelling (permission granted under Reg. Ref. 02/917) with own existing entrance gates, stable yard and circa 6.42 ha of lands. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: (1) Drawing No. 2405-PLN-102 of the subject dwelling, (2) report by Farry Town Planning addressing rural housing, and (3) proposals to replace an existing outdated septic tank serving the subject dwelling with a new domestic waste water treatment plant and pumped percolation area

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24209

• 10 Jun 2024N/a

  for the change of use of the existing development on the site, which includes two dwellings, so as to allow the independent occupation of these homes, separately from each other. This development would breach condition nos. 2 and 3 of permission reg. ref. 02/917 which envisages that these two dwellings and the land on which they are situated, would be occupied as a single unit of accommodation and this application seeks to change this existing arrangement through the deletion of these stipulations

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24185

• 11 Apr 2019Conditional

  constructing a bungalow type dwelling with option for dormer type dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated ancillary site-works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19395

• 4 Apr 2019Conditional

  construction of a one and a half storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19362

• 4 Apr 2019N/a

  constructing a bungalow type dwelling with option for dormer type dwelling , detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated ancillary site-works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19363

• 13 Jul 2018Refused

  Construction of a bungalow type dwelling with option for dormer type dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18844

• 13 Jul 2018Refused

  Construction of a one and half storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18845

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: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• KD019-002001 Church
  Description

  The church was granted to John Eustace of Harristown in 1592 (Tickell 1958, 313-4), and was referred to as the parish church of St. Bridget in a Royal Grant to Sir Maurice Eustace in 1627 (ibid 1960, 408). In the NE sector of a graveyard (KD019-002002-). Described in 1986 (SMR File) as the very poorly preserved remains of a rectangular, nave and chancel structure with the S corner of the chancel and part of the E gable standing to full height (dims. of nave L c. 15.5m E-W; Wth 7.7m; chancel L 7m E-W; Wth 4m), and possibly the remains of a dividing wall. There was a narrow light in the E gable and another in the S chancel wall, close to the SE corner, both with deep rear splays, and the SE corner contained a small cupboard and a piscine recess. The division into nave and chancel is no longer easily identifiable. The surviving limestone masonry comprises large, roughly rectangular quoins, lower random courses of roughly rectangular limestone blocks with smaller, more rounded stones above. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD019-002002 Graveyard
  Description

  According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 45 139)), 'Burial is still continued in the graveyard'. On level ground at the top of a long and very gentle W-facing slope in tillage, near the W bank of the River Liffey. A ruined church (KD019-002001-) stands in the NE sector. Recorded on the latest ed. (1938-9) of the OS 6-inch map as a partially enclosed (along E and S), rectangular area (dims. L c. 70m E-W; Wth c. 45m), its extent has been significantly reduced since (dims. L 36.5m E-W; Wth c. 24m). Now enclosed by rail and post fencing, it survives as a slightly raised area defined by a low scarp (H 0.5m), with no obvious trace of grave markers. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD019-073 Burial
  Description

  In 1997, human remains were discovered at a depth of c. 1m. during construction work on top of a small sand and gravel ridge. The site of the burial had been almost completely destroyed and the remains were no longer in context. No associated artefacts were recovered. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 484) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 February 2013

• KD019-082 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 14m) defined by a fosse with pit in centre visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Possible ring-ditch immediately to N. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke.

• KD019-083 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 12m) defined by a fosse with possible pit in centre visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Possible ring-ditch (KD019-082----) immediately to S. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Waterstown, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2722 (ZIP).

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

Name

Waterstown · Baile Bháitéir

Area

1,774,478 m² (177.45 ha, 438.48 acres)

Civil parish

Brideschurch, and its townlands

Barony

Clane

Electoral division

Donore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

860 people lived in 279 households in the Donore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysize, Barrettstown, Castlekeely, Osberstown

Placenames

Waterstown 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.