Pluckerstown

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pluckerstown, from 43 m² to 314,724 m² (31.47 ha, 77.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Pluckerstown 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.

• 15 Dec 2025Refused

  the construction of a petrol filling / service station comprising: (a) a single storey services building with canopy comprising of neighbourhood convenience mini market shop, incorporating off-license for the sale of alcohol, deli counter and associated kitchen area with storage and service, drive through take away, coffee dock and associated seating area, offices, tourist information, plant room, storage and associated service, (b) vehicle fueling for 8 no. bays and 1 no. HGV bay and (c) external facilities and works including picnic, play amenity and rest areas, bicycle parking, car parking spaces, electrical vehicle charging points, car wash, signage, on site waste water treatment system including percolation area, all associated ancillary site development works, surface water disposal, footpaths and landscaping with vehicular access from the R415 all on site c.1.03 Ha

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561420

• 29 Oct 2025Refused

  Retention of variations to the previously approved development (Pl. Ref.: 82/1444), including a dormer extension and utility room extension; alterations to the internal layout and elevations; a detached garage; a second vehicular entrance and associated driveway; and site development works below ground, including an alternative wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561227

• 10 Mar 2025N/a

  for (a) demolition / removal of 3 no. unfinished and dilapidated dwelling sub-bases and all associated services on sites 2, 3 and 4, (b) construction of 11 no. housing units on sites 2, 3 and 4 in 4 no. buildings comprising of: (i) 2 no. semi-detached two storey 3 bedroom dwellings (house type A), (ii) 1 no. terraced building containing 1 no. 3 bedroom two storey dwelling and 2 no. 2 bedroom storey and a half type dwellings (house type B), and (iii) 1 no. terraced building containing 1 no. 3 bedroom two storey dwelling and 3 no. 2 bedroom storey and a half type dwellings (house type C) , (c) decommissioning and removal of existing unfinished / abandoned sewage treatment area which includes manually emptied holding tanks and all associated plant and the construction of a new wastewater treatment system to accommodate all new and existing development. new wastewater treatment system to be located within the common green space of Allen Court, (d) all associated site development works to include bin stores, boundary treatments, garden landscaping / parking, works to existing kerbing within common areas, new and diverted connections to new wastewater treatment system, surface water connections both on-site in rear gardens and connections to existing system serving overall development and all additional ancillary services to new dwellings

  Permission, 9 homes · Kildare County Council, 2560240

• 11 Mar 2024Refused

  for the construction of a detached one and half storey house with single storey element, detached stable block (3 Stables, Dungstead, Hay Store, Groom Store, Domestic Storage), recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460213

• 8 Mar 2024N/a

  for the construction of a detached one and half storey house with single storey element, detached stable block (3 Stables, Dungstead, Hay Store, Groom Store, Domestic Storage), recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460208

• 4 Oct 2021Conditional

  for existing single storey playschool building facility to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works. Previous temporary planning permission granted under planning permission ref. 99/487

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211422

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  (A) the erection of a two-storey type house, (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use,(C) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (D) New vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211339

• 11 Dec 2020N/a

  retention of existing single storey playschool building facility to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works. Previous temporary planning permission granted under planning permission ref: 99/487,

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201522

• 16 Oct 2020Refused

  a two storey farm house, domestic garage, secondary waste water treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated works and services,

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201220

• 28 Sept 2020N/a

  two storey farm house, domestic garage, secondary waste water treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201111

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  an aggregate storage shed (area 980sqm) on a 0.098 hectare site within the existing quarry landholding

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191362

• 21 Oct 2019N/a

  of existing single storey playschool building facility to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works. Previous temporary planning permission granted under planning permission ref: 99/487

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 191166

• 12 Apr 2019Conditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 14/246 - dormer bungalow, effluent treatment plant, domestic garage, landscaping and all associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 19399

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pluckerstown.

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey rubble stone former corn mill, c.1850, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay three-storey return to rear to north. Now disused and part-overgrown. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Rainwater goods not discernible. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings (two possibly additional to front (south) elevation; one broken opening to ground floor to return to north). Stone sills (yellow brick dressings to possibly later openings). Timber shutters. Square-headed door opening. Timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in own overgrown grounds with evidence of mill race to site (now dried). Waterwheel now missing.Detached four-bay single-storey cottage, c.1850, to east originally thatched. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 3/6 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Timber panelled door.Detached two-bay single-storey mass-concrete outbuilding, c.1930, to south. Gable-ended roof. Artificial slate. Clay ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Exposed mass-concrete walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Concrete sills. Timber fittings. Square-headed door opening. Timber fittings.

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 Pluckerstown, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Pluckerstown, Kilmeague14 sales

Name

Pluckerstown · Baile Phlucras

Area

2,286,294 m² (228.63 ha, 564.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeage, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Rathernan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

683 people lived in 221 households in the Rathernan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintine, Carrick, Cloncumber, Dunbyrne, Grangehiggin, Killeagh, Pluckerstown, Punchersgrange

Placenames

Pluckerstown 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.