Geraldine

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Geraldine, from 809 m² to 1,176,228 m² (117.62 ha, 290.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 Apr 2022Conditional

  sought to construct a part single storey, part two storey dwelling, detached garage, new entrance, connection to existing mains water, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22397

• 18 Jun 2018Refused

  completion of existing development at Prusselstown Green to replace previously proposed estate design (Reg. Ref: 07/300028 - now expired) for 86 units (13 houses completed) with revised design that follows the established pattern of the development around four green spaces. Proposed development shall consist of one four bedroom two storey detached house, 58 three bedroom two storey semi-detached houses in four designs, 4 no. three bedroom two storey terraced houses, 4 no. two bedroom two storey terraced houses and a crèche (260sqm) with 2 no. two bedroom apartments over and for all associated roads, paths, boundary walls and services on and under land. This application is for phase 1 only consisting of 69 residential units and the crèche. Phase 2 shall be subject to a further application and shall consist of a further 54 units bringing the proposed overall total number of units across the site to 136 units (123 proposed plus 13 completed). Revised by significant further information consisting of; alterations to the design of House Type A1;alterations to the siting and orientation of Unit Nos. 1-4 The Park, Unit Nos. 1-4 The Court, Unit Nos. 1-2 The Crescent and Unit Nos. 23-24 The Crescent and the crèche / apartment building; alterations to Unit Nos. 1-4 The Park to become House Type A (Nos. 1-3 and A1 (No. 4) units in place of House Type B1; alterations to Unit Nos. 1, 17 and 24 The Crescent to become a House Type A1 in place of House Type B1; alterations to Unit Nos. 2, 18 and 23 The Crescent to become a House Type A in place of House Type B1; alteration to Unit No. 51 The Park to become House Type A in place of House Type A1; alterations to the layout of Unit No. 14 The Way House Type C; alterations to vehicular, pedestrian and cyclist routes; alterations to on-street visitor car parking and crèche set-down area; amended red line boundary to provide for public lighting on Geraldine Road; alterations to associated hard and soft landscaping works including boundary treatments; alterations to proposed infrastructural services provision and related pipework, and development works above and below ground; and the preparation and submission of a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission, 69 homes · Kildare County Council, 18718

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 Geraldine.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-018 Graveyard
  Description

  At the N end and abutted N-E-S by the 16th green of the Athy Golf Club, and skirted by a laneway at NW. A low but prominent hillock is enclosed by a mortared stone wall delimiting a rectangular area (45m NW-SE; 36.5m NE-SW; H 2.5m at SE). The well-maintained interior contains a dense concentration of 19th and 20th-century headstones and a few flat graveslabs. The foundations of a possible church (KD035-018001-) occur just SW of centre. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 04 December 2013

• KD035-018001 Church
  Description

  On a level terrace just SW of centre in a graveyard (KD035-018----). A low, grassed-over collapsed spread of walling is possibly the remains of the E wall of a church (L 7m N-S; Wth 3m; int H 0.3m; ext H 0.6m). At its S end, two parallel earthfast stones run W and may be two facing stones of a S wall (T 0.6m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 04 December 2013

• KD035-019001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP ASU 76 and BOC 65) show the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 55m), with a possible entrance at the SE, together with the faint cropmark of a fosse defining a possible annexe or field attached at SE. Probably a ringfort site with an annexe. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November 2013

• KD035-019002 Field boundary
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP ASU 76 and BOC 65) show the cropmark of a circular enclosure (KD035-019001-), together with the faint cropmark of a fosse defining a possible annexe or field attached at SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November 2013

• KD035-082 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.FZ.07) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch, one of a pair of ring-ditches forming part of a group of six ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by; Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 07 December 2011

• KD035-111 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) a small circular area (est. diam. c. 10m) defined by the cropmark of a back-filled fosse. Possibly the remains of a ring-barrow. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2014

• KD035-112 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) a small circular area (est. diam. c. 15m) defined by the cropmark of a back-filled fosse. Possibly the remains of a ring-barrow. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2014

Architectural heritage

• Geraldine House, farm house, 1680–1720 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement house, c.1700, originally on a U-shaped plan with pair of three-bay three-storey returns to rear to north-east. Renovated and extended, c.1800, with single-storey prostyle tetrastyle Tuscan portico added to centre approached by flight of steps, two-bay full-height bowed projecting bay added to side elevation to north-west and single-bay three-storey infill return added to rear to north-east. Part refenestrated, c.1965. Gable-ended roofs with slate (three running perpendicular to main ridge to returns to north-east; half-conical to bowed projecting bay). Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Rendered eaves band. Cast-iron rainwater goods on brackets. Flat-roof to portico behind parapet wall. Roughcast walls. Painted. Cut-stone portico with Tuscan columns, frieze and pierced parapet wall over. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Early 3/3 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Some replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1965, to all elevations. Square-headed door opening approached by flight of ten cut-granite steps. Replacement glazed timber panelled double doors, c.1965. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Group of detached outbuildings, c.1800, to north-east about a courtyard comprising: Detached six-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west. Now disused and part derelict. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Rendered band to eaves. Rainwater goods now gone. Rendered walls over rubble stone construction. Painted/limewashed. Square-headed openings (some slit openings to first floor and to rear elevation to north-west). Stone sills. Exposed lintels (originally concealed). No fittings. Moulded cut-stone block-and-start doorcases. No fittings. Detached three-bay two-storey cut-stone outbuilding to north-east with segmental-headed integral carriageway to left. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Vents to apex. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed cut-stone walls. Square-headed openings (including door opening to first floor to gable end to north-west). No sills. Yellow brick block-and-start surrounds. Louvered timber panelled fittings. Segmental-headed integral carriageway. Yellow brick dressings. Corrugated-iron doors. Detached four-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding to north-east with group of four elliptical-headed integral carriageways to ground floor. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Red brick dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Red brick surrounds. Louvered timber panelled fittings. Elliptical-headed integral carriageways. Red brick surrounds. No fittings. Detached seven-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding to south-east with pair of round-headed door openings and pair of elliptical-headed integral carriageways to right. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Cut-stone quoins. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Red brick surrounds. 4/4 timber sash windows in tripartite style with 2/2 side panes. Round-headed door openings. Moulded cut-stone architraves, lintels and archivolts over with keystones. Red brick dressings to arches. Timber boarded half-doors. Overlights. Elliptical-headed integral carriageways. Red brick dressings. Recessed reveals. No fittings. Gateway, c.1800, to west comprising pair of cut-stone piers with stringcourses having wrought iron gates.

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 Geraldine, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Geraldine

Area

1,406,010 m² (140.6 ha, 347.43 acres)

Civil parish

Kilberry, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Athy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,548 people lived in 1,506 households in the Athy Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmore, Barkersford, Gallowshill, Prusselstown, Russellstown, Sawyerswood, Smallford, Tullygorey

Placenames

Geraldine 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.