Firmount East

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Firmount East, from 225 m² to 113,583 m² (11.36 ha, 28.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Firmount East 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.

• 19 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the erection of an agricultural entrance and all ancillary site-works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460341

• 22 Feb 2023Conditional

  the demolition of an existing hurling wall, constructing new hurling wall at a revised location, 3 No. 12.0m floodlights and netting to hurling wall and 15.2m high floodlights to existing football pitch and all associated ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23156

• 15 Feb 2023Conditional

  the constructing a building to incorporate dressing rooms, physio-room, toilets, plant room, storage shed and terrace stand, a scoreboard and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23138

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  constructing an all-weather pitch with 2.4m perimeter fencing and additional 4.1m netting to the pitch, pathway around pitch, 15.2m high floodlights, and all associated ancillary site-works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23124

• 18 May 2022Conditional

  development will consist of extensions and improvements to the existing single storey dwelling, construction of a detached garage, installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with polishing filter, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22580

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  to conduct a 30-metre-high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4-metre-high palisade fence compound with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211628

• 11 Oct 2021N/a

  to construct a 30-metre-high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4-metre-high palisade fence compound with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211461

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a single storey side and rear extension to existing detached cottage, construction of a detached garage, construction of a new re-located recessed entrance to replace existing entrance, upgrading of existing septic tank system with secondary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201606

• 16 Dec 2020N/a

  construction of a single storey side and rear extension to existing detached cottage, construction of a detached garage, construction of a new re-located recessed entrance, upgrading of existing septic tank system with secondary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201544

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 12/445 - the development consists of constructing a new senior and junior football pitch , erecting a new boundary fence, a scoreboard incorporating a store , floodlights and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 17619

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 Firmount East.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-032 Mound
  Description

  On a low N-S ridge in mixed tillage and pasture. The monument is a partially overgrown, circular, round-topped, earthen mound (diam. at base c. 22m; diam. at top c. 5.5m; H c. 4m) with gently sloping sides, which are crossed NE-SW by old cultivation ridges. Visible on a 2005 aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Firmount East, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2720 (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 Firmount East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Firmount East · Firmount Thoir

Area

659,741 m² (65.97 ha, 163.03 acres)

Civil parish

Clane, and its townlands

Barony

Clane

Electoral division

Clane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

8,927 people lived in 3,078 households in the Clane electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clane, Firmount Demesne, Fleshtown, Hoganswood, Hoganswood East, Millicent North, Millicent South

Placenames

Firmount East 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.