Walshestown

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshestown, from 383 m² to 212,731 m² (21.27 ha, 52.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Walshestown 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 Jul 2026N/a

  (A) Planning Permission for a family cluster of 4 no. single storey type houses, (B) garage / store for domestic use on each site, (C) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area on each site and (D) Upgrading works to the existing family entrance to a new combined vehicular recessed entrance with access driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 2660826

• 26 Nov 2021Conditional

  the conversion of the existing 45sqm garage attached to the house to a games room, with the reconstruction of the flat roof to a pitched roof and the substitution of the garage doors to 4 windows in harmony with the existing style of the house

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211673

• 19 Jan 2021Conditional

  (a) Domestic garage/shed 45sqm adjacent to south/east side of subject dwelling. (b) Sunroom 12sqm to north/west side of subject dwelling. (c) Revised location of domestic garage to rear of subject dwelling. (d) Revised location of percolation area (e) Revised location of entrance. All at and relating to existing dwelling as per Planning Permission 497/99 at

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2141

• 23 Dec 2020N/a

  (a) Domestic garage/shed 45sqm. adjacent to south/east side of subject dwelling covered in Planning permission 497/99. (b) Sunroom 12sqm, to north/west side of subject dwelling. (c) Relocation of domestic garage to rear of subject dwelling. All at and relating to existing dwelling as per Permission 497/99

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201612

• 23 Aug 2019Conditional

  to construct a part single storey, part two storey dwelling, detached single storey garage, new entrance, bored well, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; revised site boundary, increased site area and the relocation of dwelling and site to south of original location

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19956

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  The ext of the existing racetrack by approximately 660m & raising ground levels on the track ext area to tie into existing site levels that range from approx 160m OD to the east to 140m OD to the west; widening of the home straight over a distance of 800m by between 30m & 35m; a new ambulance track over a length of 1,890m & ancillary infrastructure; &, landscape enhancement works within & adjoining the racecourse facilities including landscaping planting & the relocation of 2 no. existing attenuation ponds, & the creation of an additional 2 no. attenuation ponds. To facilitate these works, site levels will be raised to match existing contours & will require approximately 1.15 million tones of topsoil, subsoil, sand & gravel. These materials will be extracted from lands adjoining the established racecourse that are currently being restored from a disused sand & gravel pit to agricultural use under KCC Reg. Ref. 08/2159 & EPA Waste Licence Ref. W0254-01 (Walshestown). The permission granted under Kildare Council Ref. Ref. 08/2159 will expire in 2020. This application is seeking Permission for the continuance of the permitted restoration use of the Walshestown lands for a period of an additional 8.5 years to complete the current permission restoration works, & an additional 3.5 years to restore the additional area of extraction required for the racecourse ext works (12 years in total). All proposed restoration works are consistent with those previously permitted under KCC Ref. Ref. 08/2159. The proposed restoration works include the importation & placement of inert materials over & area of c. 40.05ha; processing of non-hazardous materials including crushing, screening, & magnetic separation using mobile machinery for the purpose of recovery & recycling of engineering materials; storage, & , continued use of all established & permitted structures, storage facilities, hardstanding, drainage infrastructure, utilities & works. Permission is also sought for a proposed maintenance & storage shed of 3,500 sq.m gross floor area to facilitate the proposed restoration use, & all ancillary development works. The proposed use will require the current waste licence ref. W0254-01 to be reviewed by the E.P.A. to facilitate these works. The proposed extraction & restoration works will involve the continuation of the Walshestown operations for a total period of 12 years. Accordingly, a 12 year permission is sought for etc.. see newspaper notice for full description...rev

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19523

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 Walshestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walshestown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Walshestown, 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

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

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

Name

Walshestown

Area

387,547 m² (38.75 ha, 95.76 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmore, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,019 people lived in 303 households in the Newtown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 60% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackhall, Newtown Great, Slieveroe, Walshestown

Placenames

Walshestown 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.