Swordlestown South

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Swordlestown South, from 3,516 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres) to 296,064 m² (29.61 ha, 73.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Swordlestown South 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.

• 2 Feb 2024Refused

  for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 128.66 hectares comprising of electrical and inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the application. The export capacity to the grid is estimated be c. 105MW MEC. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the addition of a temporary construction access which has been included within the red and blue line boundaries

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460079

• 27 Jan 2024N/a

  for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 128.66 hectares comprising of electrical and inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460049

• 22 Dec 2023N/a

  for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 128.66 hectares comprising of electrical and inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360539

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  a 10 year planning permission for development at Swordlestown North and Swordlestown South, County Kildare. The development will consist of the construction of solar PV development on a c.129 ha site consisting of: 1. The installation of solar panels on ground-mounted frames, 51 no. single storey electrical inverter/ transformer units, security fencing, a CCTV system with pole mounted cameras and landscaping; 2. The upgrading of an existing farm entrance off the L2023 and the creation of a second, new entrance, directly opposite to the north of the existing; 3. The provision of a new internal access road of a distance of c.170 m to provide access to a temporary construction compound; and 4. All associated ancillary development works. The operational lifespan of the solar PV development will be 35 years. Revised by significant further information which consists of 1) Revised application site boundary due to omission of gliding club lands from application site with reduction in site area from 129ha to 112ha ; 2) Omission of originally proposed 110kV substation and replacement with additional solar panels and 2 x switchgear rooms on site; and 3) Revised glint and glare assessment to access impact of revised proposal on the retained gliding club and surrounding lands and the additional panels on the original proposed 110k V substation site

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22111

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  the construction of a single storey side extension conservatory to existing two storey detached house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18491

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 Swordlestown South.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Swordlestown South.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Swordlestown South, 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 Swordlestown South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Swordlestown South

Area

1,927,434 m² (192.74 ha, 476.28 acres)

Civil parish

Kill, and its townlands

Barony

Naas South

Electoral division

Killashee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

431 people lived in 131 households in the Killashee electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Donode Big, Flemingtown South or Tonaphuca, Sillagh, Swordlestown North

Placenames

Swordlestown South 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.