Martinstown

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Martinstown, from 54 m² to 279,174 m² (27.92 ha, 68.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 29 Jul 2026N/a

  an existing site layout and boundary. Planning permission is also sought for a septic tank upgrade and new tertiary filter wastewater treatment system along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660873

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  of an existing site layout and boundary. Planning permission is also sought for a septic tank upgrade and new tertiary filter wastewater treatment system along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660869

• 14 Jul 2026N/a

  (A) construction of a single storey type house, (B) garage / store for domestic use, (C) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and (D) new vehicular recessed entrance with access driveway and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660796

• 17 Oct 2025N/a

  the construction of a dormer type dwelling, new wastewater treatment system and Ecoflo Coco filter, new recessed entrance at location of existing entrance, and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561180

• 16 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a) proposed storey and a half dwelling, b) provision of domestic garage, c) new vehicular site entrance, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of (a) revised site layout, and (b) change of house type to a dormer style dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561061

• 26 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a one and half storey house, single storey domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560186

• 26 Apr 2024Conditional

  for new farm building in existing farmyard and all associated works and services.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460369

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey bungalow, single storey domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area , recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360201

• 20 Apr 2023Refused

  retetion of the following structures associated with the established use of Martinstown House: - Guest accommodation structures /works including 10 glamping tents, a wooden wagon and a stable building conversion to 5 bedrooms;-Associated facilities including communal tent and WC/Shower block; - Steel shipping container and tarp covered seating area; An associated wastewater treatment facility with capacity to serve all the above and at the existing Martinstown House (Protectected Structure)

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23414

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  (a) Construction of a storey and a half type house; (b) Garage/store for domestic use; (c) Installation of a double chamber septic tank with percolation area and (d) New vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of alteration to red line boundary

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23251

• 6 Mar 2023Refused

  a) Amendment of Condition No. 2(b) of Planning File Ref. 88/505 to remove sterilisation of a portion of the land to allow for the erection of the proposed house, b) proposed new single storey dwelling, c) new vehicle entrance, d) domestic garage, e) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23217

• 28 Mar 2022Conditional

  sought for the construction of a two storey extension and single storey extensions to side and rear of existing single storey detached cottage, single storey domestic garage, installation of a secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22336

• 26 Nov 2021Conditional

  for a wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211678

• 26 Oct 2021N/a

  for a wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211535

• 18 Oct 2021Refused

  for the construction of detached two storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new recessed single entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211499

• 19 Jul 2021Conditional

  (1) Decommissioning, reposition and upgrade of original sub-standard septic tank. (2) Installation of replacement septic and percolation. (3) Revision to site boundaries to accommodate new position of septic tank and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211053

• 11 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, on site effluent treatment system, percolation area, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21845

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  (a) Construction of a new dormer dwelling; (b) New vehicle entrance onto driveway access granted under Planning Ref. 17/1352; (c) Domestic garage; (d) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191144

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  (a) Construction of a new dormer dwelling; (b) New vehicle entrance onto driveway access granted under Planning Ref. 17/1352; (c) Domestic garage; (d) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191145

• 24 Jun 2019Refused

  the construction of a single storey detached bungalow, single storey detached domestic garage, single storey stable block and shed (consisting of 2 stables, 1 tack room and shed), secondary effluent treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19711

• 30 Nov 2017Conditional

  a new dormer style dwelling, new entrance, new treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171352

• 27 Feb 2017Refused

  a new storey and a half dwelling, new entrance, new treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17208

• 16 Jan 2017Conditional

  of a single story pre-fabricated shed for storage, and work area use along with conreate wall boundary

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 1721

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 Martinstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD028-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In the year 2000 the upstanding monument was described as following; 'Near the top of a long, gentle W-facing pasture slope. A poorly preserved circular area (diam. 46m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3-4.5m; H 0.2-0.4m) SSE-W-NE, with faint traces of an outer fosse, partially recut as a later field drain along the W'. Recent aerial photographs visible on Digital Globe indicate that today there are no surface remains visible of this monument which has been levelled since last site visit in 2000. Compiled and revised by: Gearóid Conroy and Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 May 2015

Architectural heritage

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Church of Ireland rectory, extant 1901, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey projecting end bay; single-bay two-storey (south) or three-bay two-storey (north) elevations. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls. Camber-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Camber-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows without horns. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted truncated pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Farm house, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1837, on an E-shaped plan with single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bays centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate roof on a U-shaped plan; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered coping to gables on beaded corbel kneelers including lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered coping to gables (east) with grouped red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes on cut-granite chamfered cushion courses on yellow brick Common bond bases having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed walls with lichen-spotted yellow brick quoins to corners. Tudor-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and yellow brick surround having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered sills, and yellow brick surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered sills, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped 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 Martinstown, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2603 (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 Martinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Martinstown · Baile Mháirtín

Area

3,463,891 m² (346.39 ha, 855.95 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyshannon, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Ballyshannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,813 people lived in 577 households in the Ballyshannon electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysax Little, Ballysaxplain, Ballyshannon, Common North, Crockaun, Emlagher, Thomastown

Placenames

Martinstown 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.