Porterstown

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Porterstown, from 443 m² to 200,871 m² (20.09 ha, 49.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Porterstown 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.

• 31 Jul 2025Refused

  for (A) Retention of existing 3754 square meters of the hard standing area consisting of a mix of concrete, blacktop and gravel and permission for upgrading of the same hard standing area for the parking of up to twenty trucks and trailers as per this application, (B) Retention of use of same hard standing area for use of parking of up to twenty trucks and trailers, (C) The retention of 898 square meters of existing buildings, (D) The retention of use for these same buildings at C above for use for overnight parking of trucks and trailers and the storage of dry spare parts, components and towing equipment necessary for the trucks and trailers, (E) Retention of the use of a drive which serves the home of the directors of Kill Haulage as a means of access to the public road from the hard standing areas and buildings, the subject of this application, (F) All ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 25131

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  to install a standby industrial diesel generator under proposed solar panels. The generator, to provide standby power generation, will incorporate a bunded fuel tank and be located within a mesh fence. The proposed solar panels will be attached to a steel frame to be erected over the generator (covering an area of approximately 22 sq.m., to a maximum height of 4.7 metres above ground level). Works to include all ancillary development works, all located within an existing fenced compound

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25120

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  for a second phase of the existing grid system services facility within the existing grid system services facility within the existing site area of c1.95 hectares, which was granted via reference number 18/247. The second phase will utilise all existing infrastructure, including the EirGrid gird connection infrastructure, site roads, 110kV substation, compounds, and all ancillary services. The proposed new works will consist of the installation and operation of battery energy units, including 1 no. customer switchgear container which will be connected to the national grid, via the existing infrastructure ,electrical transformers and inverter units, underground cabling and ducting, boundary fencing, security entrance gates, CCTV, internal access road and all associated ancillary infrastructure on land at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23276

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  the development of a new electrical substation and additional equipment in the existing ESB Kilteel 110kV Substation to facilitate the connection of the Porterstown Battery Storage Facility (Planning Ref 18/247) The total site area is 1.2 hectares. The new electrical substation will include 1 control building (GRP Containerised Substation), a 110kV transformer, surge arresters, instrument transformers, a 110kV busbar connecting to the ESB substation, a lightning mast and other electrical equipment to be installed on concrete support structures. Additional features will include palisade fencing, security gates, access tracks, external lighting, drainage, associated electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV security monitoring system, landscaping and all associated ancillary infrastructure. The additional equipment to be installed in the ESB substation to facilitate the connection of the new substation will include a 110kV busbar extension, a 110kV transformer bay, a 110kV coupler bay, a 110kV busbar connecting to the new substation, an interface kiosk, palisade fencing, a lightning mast and all associated ancillary infrastructure required for the connection

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20745

• 9 Mar 2018Conditional

  development of a grid system services facility within a total site area of up to 1.95 hectares, to include 1no. TSO compound including 1no. single storey TSO electrical substation building and 1no. single storey customer substation, 1no. customer switchgear, electrical inverter /transformer station modules, containerised battery storage modules on concrete support structures, heating, ventilation and air conditioning units (HVAC units), access tracks and upgraded site entrance, associated electrical cabling and ducting, security gates, perimeter security fencing, CCTV security monitoring system, culverts and landscaping works and all associated ancillary infrastructure

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18247

• 6 Dec 2017Conditional

  construction of a detached dwelling (part single/part two-storey) with waste water treatment plant and percolation area, associated landscaping and boundary treatment works, a new single storey garage and alterations to an existing vehicular entrance off of the road at Willow Lodge

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171376

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 Porterstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Porterstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Porterstown, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2905 (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 Porterstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Porterstown

Area

400,451 m² (40.05 ha, 98.95 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteel, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Kilteel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

638 people lived in 204 households in the Kilteel electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fodeens, Kilteel Lower, Kilwarden, Newrow, Oldmilltown

Placenames

Porterstown 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.