# Wheatfield Lower, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castledillon, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 828,606 m² (82.86 ha, 204.75 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,724 m² (1.87 ha, 4.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castledillon, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/castledillon.md - Barony: Salt South - Electoral division: Donaghcumper, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 6,652 people lived in 2,218 households in the Donaghcumper electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 60% 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/25348 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81221 - Centre: latitude 53.303414, longitude -6.576139 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wheatfield Lower, from 1,738 m² to 794,548 m² (79.45 ha, 196.34 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3487576: 794,548 m² (79.45 ha, 196.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487576.md - Parcel 1089953: 410,286 m² (41.03 ha, 101.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089953.md - Parcel 1040701: 244,760 m² (24.48 ha, 60.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040701.md - Parcel 1074246: 50,880 m² (5.09 ha, 12.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074246.md - Parcel 1089918: 45,758 m² (4.58 ha, 11.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089918.md - Parcel 1084699: 24,559 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084699.md - Parcel 1021513: 12,890 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021513.md - Parcel 1018463: 9,581 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018463.md - Parcel 1070999: 3,997 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070999.md - Parcel 1034710: 3,083 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034710.md - Parcel 5328555: 2,739 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5328555.md - Parcel 5320910: 1,738 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5320910.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Wheatfield 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 24 May 2024, Kildare County Council 2460457: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a new natural turf GAA field and gravel car park including all associated drainage, fencing and goal backstops. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: A zebra crossing has been incorporated and the redline boundary has been revised accordingly, Landscape architecture drawings have been added to the submission, Arborist drawings and an arborist report have been added to the submission, a Road Safety Assessment has been carried out and provided. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460457/0 - 26 Jun 2019, Kildare County Council 19723: Refused. Permission, 1 home. (a) Erection of a two storey type house; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area, and (d) Amendment of condition No. 10 of planning file 90/1569 in order to allow residential development on the subject site; (e) Installation of new recessed entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19723/0 - 28 May 2019, Kildare County Council 19595: Refused. Permission, 1 home. (a) Erection of a two storey type house; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (d) Amendment of condition No. 10 of planning file 90/1569 in order to allow residential development on the subject site; (e) Installation of new recessed entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19595/0 - 26 Oct 2017, Kildare County Council 171195: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed part single storey, part storey and a half 4 bedroom dwelling and associated site works and driveway. Proposed new vehicular entrance and gates entering off L2008,. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/171195/0 - 13 Jan 2017, Kildare County Council 1720: N/a. Permission, 1 home. proposed part single storey, part storey and a half 4 bedroom dwelling with an ancillary single storey garage along with proposed site works and driveway. Proposed new vehicular entrance and gates entering off L2008. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/1720/0 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 Wheatfield Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD015-017: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD015-017----. A sub-circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. D. Lucey). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 11 September 2015 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Wheatfield Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Wheatfield Lower, 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: 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_2869, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2869.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/wheatfield-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/wheatfield-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/wheatfield-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Wheatfield 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) - Ballycommon: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballycommon.md - Castledillon Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/castledillon-upper.md - Clownings: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clownings-80347.md - Reeves: https://everytownland.com/kildare/reeves.md - Tipperstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tipperstown.md - Wheatfield Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/wheatfield-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/wheatfield-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/wheatfield-lower