Greenmount

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenmount, from 202 m² to 161,435 m² (16.14 ha, 39.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Greenmount 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.

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  I Dermot Browne intend to apply for Retention Permission and Planning Permission for an Agricultural Development at Greenmount, Rathmore, Naas, Co. Kildare. The items for which Retention Permission is sought are as follows: • The construction of a livestock shed (459m2, 6.6m high) for the seasonal housing of sheep during the lambing period and adjacent concrete sheep handling pen, setback 398m from the public road. • 2 No. ancillary Storage Container Units, Storage Container Unit 1 (17m2, 2.7m high) and Storage Container Unit 2 (23m2, 2.8m high). • Placing of a concrete yard to a pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen (186m2) and the retention of this pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen bounding the public road south-west of the site and including the construction of a compacted stone surface farm access lane to the above-mentioned livestock shed. The items for which Planning Permission is sought are as follows: • The partial relocation of existing compacted stone surface farm access lane to facilitate the placing of new landscaped screening. • Additional landscape screening to the south-west and south of the livestock shed and surrounding yard.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660664

• 16 Jun 2026N/a

  • The construction of a livestock shed (459m2, 6.6m high) for the seasonal housing of sheep during the lambing period and adjacent concrete sheep handling pen, setback 398m from the public road. • 2 No. ancillary Storage Container Units, Storage Container Unit 1 (17m2, 2.7m high) and Storage Container Unit 2 (23m2, 2.8m high). • Placing of a concrete yard to a pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen (186m2) and the retention of this pre-existing wooden fenced sheep handling pen bounding the public road south-west of the site and including the construction of a compacted stone surface farm access lane to the above-mentioned livestock shed. The items for which Planning Permission is sought are as follows: The partial relocation of existing compacted stone surface farm access lane to facilitate the placing of new landscaped screening. Additional landscape screening to the south-west and south of the livestock shed and surrounding yard

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660654

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  for amendments previously granted under ref 961432: As constructed 1st floor with 4 velux windows to rear roof and windows to side gable at 1 st floor level. As constructed garage/fuel store and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560734

• 28 Apr 2023Refused

  the construction of a detached single storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, ancillary landscape screening, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23455

• 10 Jan 2023Refused

  the construction of a detached single storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, ancillary landscape screening, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2318

• 23 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission is sought for the construction of a detached single storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakways, ancillary landscape screening , recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221540

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 Greenmount.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenmount.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2907 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Greenmount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Greenmount

Area

494,218 m² (49.42 ha, 122.12 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmore, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,175 people in 367 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caureen, Punchestown Lower, Rathmore West, Redbog, Wolfestown

Placenames

Greenmount 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.