Youngstown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Youngstown, from 1,293 m² to 834,286 m² (83.43 ha, 206.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Youngstown 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.

• 11 Jun 2020Conditional

  the construction of a new single storey dwelling, including a new vehicular entrance, the construction of a new domestic car garage, the provision of a new sewage treatment system with raised percolation area, hard and soft landscaping and all associated ancillary site works (located opposite to existing dwelling (R14 NY93)

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20598

• 14 Jan 2020Conditional

  retention of Domestic Garage & Fuel Store & associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2021

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, upgrading of existing entrance, connection to services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18811

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 Youngstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-036 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Originally identified as a cropmark on a high altitude aerial photograph (GSI N221-0) and visible on a 2010 OSi Orthophoto as the faint cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 23m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 09 October 2013

• KD031-047 Moated site
  Description

  Cropmark of square-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 30m NW-SE x 28m NE-SW) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Outline of cropmark visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Chris Corlett Date of upload: 27 November 2018

• KD031-048 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 26m) bisected by field boundary running E-W visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. See attached image taken from Digital Globe Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 November 2018

• KD031-049 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 44m NE-SW x 33m, NW-SE) with kidney-shaped annexe (approx. dims. 49m NE-SW x 27m E-W) to W visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. The oval-shaped enclosure is bisected by a field boundary running NE-SW. See attached image taken from Digital Globe Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 November 2018

• KD031-054 Moated site
  Description

  Cropmark of possible moated site (approx. dims. 43m N-S x 39m E-W) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark of second moated site (KD031-047----) in same field 80m to S. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Matthew Mullen Reynolds. Date of upload: 21 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Youngstown House, farm house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey over part-raised basement house with dormer attic, c.1770, with two-bay full-height bowed projecting bay to centre to front (south-west) and to rear (north-east) elevation having cut-stone doorcase to front approached by flight of steps. Extended, c.1840, comprising single-bay single-storey end bay to south-east. Refenestrated, c.1995. Gable-ended roof with slate (half-conical to bowed projecting bays). Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone course to eaves. Square-headed window openings. Stones sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995, to front elevation (retaining 2/2 timber sash window to end bay). Some early 1/1 timber sash windows to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening to centre to front (south-west) elevation approached by flight of cut-stone steps. Cut-stone doorcase with broken pediment over. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Overlight within moulded archivolt. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds. Gravel and tarmacadam forecourt to front.Rubble stone flanking screen walls with round-headed recessed niches or Serliana and cut-stone piers.Detached six-bay double-height outbuilding, c.1770, to north-west. Reroofed, c.1930. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1930. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Round-headed recessed niche or Serliana to gable end to south-west. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Fittings not visible.

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 Youngstown, 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_2503 (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 Youngstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Youngstown

Area

1,236,127 m² (123.61 ha, 305.45 acres)

Civil parish

Narraghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Skerries, the unit of the census

Census 2022

717 people lived in 228 households in the Skerries electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardellis Lower, Ardellis Upper, Ardnagross, Ballynabarna, Boley Little, Fontstown Lower, Fontstown Upper, Kilmead

Placenames

Youngstown 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.