Sawyerswood

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sawyerswood, from 17,300 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres) to 762,149 m² (76.21 ha, 188.33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Sawyerswood 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.

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  to construct an agricultural building for the storage of organic fertilisers, machinery, farm produce and all associated site works within an existing farmyard to the rear of

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23548

• 6 Jan 2023N/a

  for development consisting of an agricultural building for the storage of organic fertilisers, machinery, farm produce and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 239

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 Sawyerswood.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-075 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BB.37) shows cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure defined by two fosses. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-076 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1989. Aerial photograph (GB90.BB.37) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing north-east. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Sawyerswood House, farm house, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former tenant farmer's house, c.1740. Renovated and extended, c.1995, comprising three-bay two-storey parallel range along rear elevation to south forming double-pile with single-bay single-storey end bay to west, two-bay single-storey lean-to return to rear to south and single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch added to centre front elevation to north. Now in private residential use. Hipped roof (M-profile) (gable-ended to end bay; lean-to to return; gabled to porch). Replacement artificial slate, c.1995. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995. Snecked limestone walls to original range. Random rubble stone walls to additional ranges. Rendered wall to rear (south) elevation and to end bay. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to additional ranges). Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs to original range. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Fixed-pane uPVC casement windows to porch. Square-headed door opening. Glazed uPVC door. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Range of detached single- and two-storey rubble stone outbuildings, c.1740, to rear to south on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard comprising: eight-bay single-storey range to east, seven-bay single-storey range to west, three-bay two-storey block to south-west and three-bay single-storey range to south. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Snecked rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings (open front to range to south). Stone sills. Cut-granite lintels. 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 Sawyerswood, 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_2397 (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 Sawyerswood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Sawyerswood

Area

846,602 m² (84.66 ha, 209.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilberry, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Athy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,548 people lived in 1,506 households in the Athy Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmore, Clogorrow, Geraldine, Prusselstown, Shanraheen, Tomard

Placenames

Sawyerswood 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.