Kimmeens
Kimmeens is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymore Eustace, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare.
Parcel 1053708
- Area
- 71,784 m² (7.18 ha, 17.74 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- R1 New Residential (Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace) The objective
G4 Open Space and Amenity (Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace) The objective
R2 Existing Residential / Infill (Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace) The objective - Townland
- Kimmeens
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Mar 2023Conditional
The construction of a new one to two storey standalone community hall building (c. 1205 sqm GFA). The accommodation includes a foyer, multi-purpose indoor hall, work-hub, spinning class, manager's office, ancillary changing and sanitary accommodation at ground floor and 2 x multi-purpose function rooms and youth club space at first floor. Car-parking, bicycle parking, roof mounted solar panels, skate park, playground and all related ancillary landscaping, services and site development works to facilitate the development. It is also proposed to install a secondary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter in accordance with the appropriate EPA Code of Practice,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23261
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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.
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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
- 7.2 ha
- 18 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 36,088 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres)
- Zoning
- R1
- New Residential
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kimmeens, from 391 m² to 71,784 m² (7.18 ha, 17.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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
- R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Mar 2023Conditional
The construction of a new one to two storey standalone community hall building (c. 1205 sqm GFA). The accommodation includes a foyer, multi-purpose indoor hall, work-hub, spinning class, manager's office, ancillary changing and sanitary accommodation at ground floor and 2 x multi-purpose function rooms and youth club space at first floor. Car-parking, bicycle parking, roof mounted solar panels, skate park, playground and all related ancillary landscaping, services and site development works to facilitate the development. It is also proposed to install a secondary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter in accordance with the appropriate EPA Code of Practice,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23261
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 Kimmeens.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kimmeens.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kimmeens.
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 Kimmeens, 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 Kimmeens.
- 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 Kimmeens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Kimmeens
- Area
- 72,264 m² (7.23 ha, 17.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymore Eustace, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas South
- Electoral division
- Ballymore Eustace, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,589 people lived in 582 households in the Ballymore Eustace electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymore Eustace East, Ballymore Eustace West, Sousheen Common, Tinnycross
- Placenames
- Kimmeens 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.