Fontstown Lower

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fontstown Lower, from 52 m² to 307,249 m² (30.72 ha, 75.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Fontstown Lower 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.

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a single-story bungalow, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to recessed entrance, single storey dometic garage, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460921

• 26 Jul 2022Conditional

  A) retention of change of use of part of existing building (74m2) from community hall/toilet use to residential use to create one single residence, b) retention of minor alterations to front elevations to include replacement of non-original bay windows with new h/w windows and double doors, c) retention of standalone garage (for domestic use only) with an area of 31m2 and d) all associated site works. The Old Schoolhouse is listed as a protected structure

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22919

• 15 Jul 2022N/a

  (a) Retention of change of use of part of existing building (74m²) from community hall/toilet use to residential use to create one single residence; (b) Retention of minor alterations to front elevations to include replacement of non-original bay windows with new h/w windows and double doors; (c) Retention of standalone garage (for domestic use only) with an area of 31m² and (d) All associated site works. The Old Schoolhouse is listed as a protected structure

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22867

• 23 Jun 2021Conditional

  a bungalow, revision to existing recessed vehicular entrance to provide double vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21909

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  for alterations to an extension as granted permission under Pl ref: 81/925. The rear extension was permitted as a two storey extension but constructed as a single storey extension, ancillary alterations to elevations and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21763

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  1) alteration to an existing detached cottage which include an apex roof light, ancillary alteration to front & rear elevations and 2) change of use of a former agricultural shed to a domestic shed for domestic storage purposes and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 21764

• 9 Aug 2019Conditional

  New dwelling with integrated family flat & domestic garage/store, aswaflow wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, recessed agricultural/residential shared entrance and all ancillary site development works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; a revised entrance location

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19903

• 8 Feb 2019Refused

  a new bungalow and domestic garage/store, new Aswaflow SBR wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, recessed agricultural/residential shared entrance and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19115

• 28 Sept 2018Refused

  new bungalow and domestic garage/store, new Aswaflow SBR wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181192

• 22 Feb 2018Refused

  a two storey dwelling, new Aswaflow SBR wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18183

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 Fontstown Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-014 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (KD031-014001-). According to Ronan (1941b, 96-7), the church was called 'Villa Fonti', and was he says, ‘in waste’ in 1294 according to an Ecclesiastical Taxation. The church and chancel are described as ‘ruinous' in Archbishop Bulkeley’s Visitation of Dublin, 1630 (op. cit). A ruined rectangular structure (traceable L 14.7m E-W; Wth 6.7m N-S) appears to comprise the N and S sidewalls of a medieval church built of random rubble limestone (wall T 0.9m) into which a later (18th/19th-century?) W gable wall (T 0.7m) was inserted. The E gable wall (T 0.75m) also appears to have been rebuilt. The ‘new’ structure (L 9.25m E-W) has a partially robbed out doorway (Wth 1.1m) in the W gable wall, two robbed out windows in the S sidewall, and a robbed out window and a blocked up window embrasure in the N sidewall. The E gable wall contains a round arched window incorporating some red brick and carries a bell cote. A broken font (KD031-014002-) lies in the NW corner of the overgrown interior. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 October 2013

• KD031-014001 Graveyard
  Description

  At the top of a long gentle W-facing pasture slope. Contains a ruined church (KD031-014----) and a font (KD031-014002-). A well-maintained rectangular area (c. 50m E-W; c. 35m N-S) contains numerous burials, the earliest legible of which date to the 19th-century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 October 2013

• KD031-014002 Font
  Description

  In a ruined church (KD031-014----) in a graveyard (KD031-014001-). Approximately half of a square granite font with rounded corners survives (L 0.4m; H 0.3m; D of basin 0.18m; av. Wth of rim 0.10m; drain hole diam 0.06m) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 October 2013

• KD031-017 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on a 1764 ‘Map of Upper Fonts Town’ by B. Scale (JKAS 1970, 477) as the E half of a circular enclosure, and named ‘Danesfort’. Shown again on a slightly later map (1773) by Scale (NLI 21. F. 11) as a double banked rectangular enclosure, with the W limits defined by a later field boundary, and again named ‘Danesfort’. The later depiction as rectangular may reflect the modification and use of a ringfort as a field/paddock? No visible surface traces survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 07 October 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to front. Hipped roof with thatch. Rope work to ridges and to eaves. Rendered chimney stack. Flat-roof to porch. Bitumen felt. Iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls (possibly over rubble stone construction). Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Replacement timber casement window, c.1980, to porch. Square-headed door opening. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980, to porch. Set back from road in own grounds. Roughcast boundary wall to front.

• Old School House, school, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey rubble former national school with half-dormer attic, c.1850, on a H-shaped plan comprising two-bay single-storey recessed central block with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting flanking end bays having three-bay single-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west and two-bay single-storey recessed central bay to rear elevation to north-west. Extensively renovated, c.1990, with single-bay single-storey canted bay windows inserted to ground floor flanking end bays to accommodate residential use. Gable-ended roofs on a H-shaped plan with slate (gablets to dormer attic windows). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Replacement Velux rooflights, c.1990. Replacement scalloped uPVC eaves, c.1990. Timber bargeboards with finials to apexes. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1990. Rubble stone walls. Red brick dressings to sections. Replacement render, c.1990, to dormer attic to central block. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings (canted bay windows, c.1990, to ground floor flanking end bays; segmental-headed window openings to gables). Stone sills. Red brick dressings. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1990, incorporating glazed timber panelled French doors to canted bay windows. Square-headed door opening (possibly originally window opening). Red brick dressings. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1990. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Lawns to site.

• Church of Saint John the Evangelist Fontstown), church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height Gothic-style Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1823, with lancet-arch openings and single-bay three-stage tower to south-west on a square plan having battlemented parapet, needle spire and single-bay double-height flanking bays. Gable-ended roof with slate (behind battlemented parapet to gable end to north-east). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered coping to gables. Iron rainwater goods. Cut-stone needle spire to tower behind battlemented parapet. Roofs to flanking bays not visible behind battlemented parapets. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone dressings including clasping stepped buttresses to corners with pinnacles, stringcourses to gable end to north-east and to tower, and battlemented roof parapets. Lancet-arch window openings. Cut-stone chamfered sills and surrounds. Timber traceried diamond-leaded windows. Cut-stone traceried window to gable end to north-east with hood moulding and heraldic shield over. Square-headed window openings to second stage to tower. Fixed-pane timber diamond-leaded windows. Louvered timber panels to third stage. Lancet-arch door opening. Cut-stone chamfered surround. Timber panelled double doors with overpanel. Cut-stone plaque over with hood moulding. Set back from road in own grounds.

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 Fontstown Lower, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fontstown Lower.

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

Name

Fontstown Lower · Baile an Fhóntaigh Íochtarach

Area

1,435,835 m² (143.58 ha, 354.8 acres)

Civil parish

Fontstown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Fontstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 144 households in the Fontstown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardellis Lower, Boley Great, Boley Little, Fontstown Upper, Rathsillagh Lower, Youngstown

Placenames

Fontstown Lower 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.