Caureen
Caureen is a townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare.
Parcel 1053489
- Area
- 444,014 m² (44.4 ha, 109.72 acres)
- Buildings
- 8 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,365 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Caureen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- KD020-014 Mound
Description
Prominently sited c. 60m W of a hill summit with panoramic views in all directions except E. A low, circular, grass-covered, earthen mound (diam 17m; H 1.5m at E-2m at N) has a large central depression (av. diam. 3m) which may be the result of modern disturbance, or might be the remains of a collapsed central chamber. A small earthfast boulder (visible dims. L 0.6m; H 0.5m) at the mound's base at N may be a kerb stone, while a second similar stone, just W of the mound's base at W may be a displaced kerbstone. Low whin-cover is starting to establish on the mound SW-WNW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 45.1 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 2,866 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caureen, from 1,156 m² to 444,014 m² (44.4 ha, 109.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caureen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Dec 2024Conditional
for 1. Retention for demolition of rear porch. 2. Retention for alterations to roof profile and chimney. 3. Retention for underground bunker and associated retaining walls. 4. Retention for perimeter green fencing. 5. Retention for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling. 6. Retention for roadside boundary wall and entrance gates and associated works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 24378
29 Nov 2024N/a
for 1. Retention for demolition of rear porch 2. Retention for alterations to roof profile and chimney 3. Retention for underground bunker and associated retaining walls 4. Retention for perimeter green fencing 5. Retention for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling 6. Retention for roadside boundary wall and entrance gates and associated works
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 24370
13 May 2024N/a
Retention and Planning permission for 1. Retention for demolition of rear porch 2. Retention for alterations to roof profile and chimney 3. Retention for underground bunker and associated retaining walls 4. Retention for perimeter green fencing 5. Retention for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling 6. Permission to upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements and associated works.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 24151
7 May 2024N/a
1. for demolition of rear porch 2. for alterations to roof profile and chimney 3. for underground bunker and associated retaining walls 4. for perimeter green fencing 5. for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling 6. Permission to upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements and associated works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 24142
21 Jun 2021Conditional
1. Permission for demolition of extension to the rear of existing dwelling. 2. Permission for a replacement extension to the rear which includes a basement. 3. Permission for the removal of existing window and provision of a replacement window on the South Eastern gable end on existing dwelling. 4. Permission for the removal of existing window and provision of 2 No. replacement windows on the North Western gable end on existing dwelling. 5. Permission for roof light on the rear roof plain on existing dwelling. 6. Permission to upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements. 7. Permission to demolish existing garage and permission to construct a replacement garage and associated works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21890
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caureen.
Recorded monuments
- KD020-014 Mound
Description
Prominently sited c. 60m W of a hill summit with panoramic views in all directions except E. A low, circular, grass-covered, earthen mound (diam 17m; H 1.5m at E-2m at N) has a large central depression (av. diam. 3m) which may be the result of modern disturbance, or might be the remains of a collapsed central chamber. A small earthfast boulder (visible dims. L 0.6m; H 0.5m) at the mound's base at N may be a kerb stone, while a second similar stone, just W of the mound's base at W may be a displaced kerbstone. Low whin-cover is starting to establish on the mound SW-WNW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caureen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Caureen, 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 Caureen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caureen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Caureen
- Area
- 450,900 m² (45.09 ha, 111.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas North
- Electoral division
- Rathmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,175 people lived in 367 households in the Rathmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Greenmount, Punchestown Lower, Punchestown Upper, Redbog, Slatequarries
- Placenames
- Caureen 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.