Ballymore Eustace West

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymore Eustace West, from 10 m² to 878,552 m² (87.86 ha, 217.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 2 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 · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Apr 2026N/a

  consist of demolition of single storey porch to side and single storey extension to rear, convert existing storage area into liveable space, conservation and restoration of the existing structure for domestic purposes, construct a part single storey and part one and a half storey domestic extension to rear, interior and exterior alterations, appropriate waste water treatment system, connection to mains water supply, new domestic entrance, and all ancillary site works and landscaping.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660378

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  1. Proposed single storey garden room (52m²) to lower front garden, including all associated landscaping and drainage works, 2. Retention of alterations to dwelling including single storey extensions at rear, side and front totalling 10m², changes to fenestration at side front and rear, relocated front door, 4no. rooflights to front roof and 2no. apex rooflights to rear roof

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660096

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  1. Proposed single storey garden room (52m²) to lower front garden, including all associated landscaping and drainage works, 2. Retention of alterations to dwelling including single storey extensions at rear, side and front totalling 10m², changes to fenestration at side front and rear, relocated front door, 4no. rooflights to front roof and 2no. apex rooflights to rear roof,

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660086

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  for 1) A single storey extension to the rear of our property. 2) To decommission the existing septic tank to the rear and replace it with a Proprietary Wastewater Treatment Unit with a Tertiary Filter to the front. 3) All associated ground works in connection with the above. 4) The floor areas involved are as follows: (i) The Existing Original Cottage: 25.92 sq.m. (ii) The Existing Exempted Development Extension: 33.40 sq.m. (iii) The Proposed Extension: 102.30 sq.m.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560401

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a single storey dwelling & detached garage, serviced with an onsite waste water treatment system to current EPA guidelines, shared recessed entrance, and for all associated site works on a pre-existing dwelling site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560223

• 25 Jul 2024Refused

  for a single storey dwelling & detached garage, serviced with an onsite waste water treatment system to current EPA guidelines, recessed entrance, and for all associated site works on a pre-existing dwelling site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460714

• 24 Jul 2024N/a

  The development will consist of building a single storey dwelling & detached garage, serviced with an onsite waste water treatment system to current EPA guidelines, recessed entrance, and for all associated site works on a pre-existing dwelling site.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460706

• 9 Aug 2022Refused

  for dormer bungalow with single storey garage and septic tank with percolation with access through existing laneway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22978

• 27 Apr 2017Conditional

  of the conservatory to the rear of the house

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17475

• 13 Apr 2017N/a

  conservatory to the rear of the house

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17415

• 24 Feb 2017Refused

  Development at a 5.1 ha site (51,115 sq. m) consisting of the provision of 79 No. semi-detached and detached dwellings (27 No. 4 bedroom houses, 48 No. 3 bedroom houses and 4 No. 2 bedroom houses); 158 No. ancillary on-curtilage car parking spaces; a vehicular access into the scheme from the R413 positioned close to the north-western corner of the site and pedestrian linkages to the adjacent Liffey Heights residential development; hard and soft landscaping; playground; boundary treatments; solar panels; and all associated site development works above and below ground. The lands are bounded to the north by the R413, to the north-east by the ‘Liffey Heights’ residential development, to the east by residential development (with the R411 beyond) and to the south and west by fields.

  Permission, 79 homes · Kildare County Council, 17204

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: Liffey Valley Meander Belt 000393

Recorded monuments

• KD029-010 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The original location (as indicated on the latest ed. (1939-40) of the OS 6-inch map) of a bullaun stone which was subsequently moved some 270m to the SE. See KD029-010001- for description. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 27 August 2013

• KD029-010001 Bullaun stone (present location)
  Description

  Moved from its original location, (KD029-010----) c. 270m to the NW, to the front lawn of a private house. A well-preserved D-shaped granite block (L 1.45m; Wth 0.5-1.45m; H 0.85m) with a roughly rectangular upper surface (L 1m; Wth 0.7m) which contains two well-carved basins (a W- one: diam. 0.3m; D 0.2m and a shallower E-one: 0.3m; D 0.05m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 27 August 2013

• KD029-052 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the top (500 foot contour) of a short but steep E-facing pasture slope overlooking the River Liffey to the E. Two other enclosures lies a short distance to the S (KD029-053----) and SE (KD029-054----). A fairly well-preserved oval, penannular enclosure, open towards the NE (int. diams. 27.5m N-S; 24m E-W) is defined by a low grass-covered inner, earthen bank (int. H 0.3-1.2m; Wth 1.4-3.5m; ext. H 0.3-0.5m) ENE- S-W-N, and by a shallow outer fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.2-3.4m) recut as a later drain ENE-SE. Naturally rising ground means the W-half of the interior rises steeply (H 2.7m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 September 2013

• KD029-053 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the top (500 foot contour) of a short but steep E-facing pasture slope overlooking the River Liffey to the E. Two other enclosures lie nearby; one to the N (KD029-052----) and the second to the SE (KD029-054----). A fairly well-preserved small, circular area (int. diams. 17m N-S; 16m E-W) is defined by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.2-1.2m; Wth 3-5.6m; ext. H 0.5-1.1m) and a shallow outer fosse (D 0.2-0.4m; Wth at base 1.2-1.8m). The W-half of the interior rises steeply. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 September 2013

• KD029-054 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the top (500 foot contour) of a short but steep E-facing pasture slope overlooking the River Liffey to the E. Two other enclosures lies a short distance to the NW (KD029-053----) and beyond to the N (KD029-052----). A poorly preserved circular area (est. int. diam. 29m) is defined by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; Wth 3-4.2m; ext. H 0.6m) and a shallow outer fosse (D 0.5m; Wth at base 1.6m) NE-E-SE. Quarrying has disturbed the enclosing elements and the interior elsewhere. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 September 2013

• KD029-058 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this earthwork was located in a woodland plantation on the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge located 330m to NNE. Bullaun stone (KD029-010----) located 100m to S. Outline of circular-shaped sunken area (approx. diam. 10m) enclosed by a curving bank visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13. Could be the remains of a pond-barrow or a designed landscape feature such as an ornamental pond associated with landscaping of the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke. Date of upload: 16 October 2020

• KD029-059 Enclosure
  Description

  On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this earthwork is depicted as a small wooded grove located in on the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge located 330m to NNE. Bullaun stone (KD029-010----) located 100m to S. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13. Could be the remains of a post-1700 designed landscape feature such as a tree-ring or possibly a ringfort reused as a tree-ring associated with landscaping of the demesne lands of Mount Cashel Lodge. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke. Date of upload: 16 October 2020

Architectural heritage

• Ballymore Bridge, bridge, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch bridge over river, built 1784. Damaged, 1868. Roughcast coursed rubble stone walls centred on granite ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with cut-granite (north) or schist soldier course (south) coping to parapets centred on lichen-covered benchmark-inscribed plaque. Series of six segmental arches with granite ashlar voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystones. Sited spanning River Liffey with unkempt banks to river.

• Mountcashel Lodge, gate lodge, 1790–1822 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan; two-bay single-storey rear (south) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having red brick capping, moss-covered cut-granite coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast coursed rubble stone walls with concealed cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch door opening (east) with cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on cut-granite keystone framing timber boarded door. Pointed-arch window opening (west) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on cut-granite keystone framing remains of timber fitting. Pointed-arch window openings (south) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds centred on cut-granite keystones framing remains of timber fittings. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Mountcashel Lodge with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-granite monolithic capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Mountcashel Lodge, country house, 1700–1777 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of country house, extant 1777, including (north): Detached two-bay single-storey pavilion with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-granite eaves. Roughcast walls with cut-granite quoins to corners. Pair of pointed-arch door openings with no fittings surviving. Pair of square-headed window openings (gable ends) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Set in unkempt grounds.

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 Ballymore Eustace West, 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 Ballymore Eustace West.

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 Ballymore Eustace West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ballymore Eustace West

Area

1,558,728 m² (155.87 ha, 385.17 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

Ardinode East, Ballymore Eustace East, Briencan, Broadleas Commons, Coghlanstown East, Kimmeens, Longstone, Sousheen Common, Tinnycross

Placenames

Ballymore Eustace West 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.