Bray Lower
Bray Lower is a townland in the civil parish of St. Michael's, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Bré Íochtarach.
Parcel 1055702
- Area
- 1,816 m²
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 367 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
- Bray Lower
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
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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2452 (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.
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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
- 131.7 ha
- 326 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bray Lower, from 749 m² to 350,357 m² (35.04 ha, 86.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Bray Lower 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
24 Nov 2023Conditional
the provision of a one-bedroomed single storey dwelling as an extension to the rear of an existing single storey crèche and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360409
18 Sept 2020Conditional
(a) A new advertising sign fixed to existing creche. (b) The omission of condition 3(c) of planning permission register reference 01/1634 which requires the use of the building to revert to residential in the event of the sale of the building. Retention permission is required for: (a) Changing the primary use of the building from residential to commercial use. (b) Amendment to condition 14 of planning permission register reference 01/1634, to change the maximum permissible number of children from 18 to 27,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201070
2 May 2019Conditional
extension to side of existing pre-school building and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19484
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 Bray Lower.
Recorded monuments
- KD035-034 Moated site
Description
In level tillage. Visible on two aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 14 (1968)) and CUCAP BDO 45 (1970)) as the cropmark of a narrow fosse enclosing a rectangular area (est. c. 50m N-S; c. 40m W-E), possibly a moated site. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD035-035----) c. 40m to the ESE is also visible on the aerial photographs. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2013
- KD035-035 Enclosure
Description
In level tillage. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDO 45 (1970)) as the cropmark of a broad fosse enclosing a rectangular area (est. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m W-E), possibly a moated site. No visible surface trace survives. A second levelled enclosure (KD035-034----) c. 40m to the WNW is also visible on the aerial photograph. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bray Lower.
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 Bray Lower, 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_2452 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bray Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Bray Lower · Bré Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,317,433 m² (131.74 ha, 325.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Michael's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- 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
- Ardree, Ballycullane, Bray Upper, Foxhill, Heath, Leinsterlodge, Nicholastown
- Placenames
- Bray Lower 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.