Brownstown Upper

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownstown Upper, from 468 m² to 382,741 m² (38.27 ha, 94.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Brownstown Upper 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.

• 8 Jan 2026Conditional

  1) The refurbishment, alteration and extension to the existing dwelling. 2) Construction of a new garage. 3) Closure of the existing second site entrance onto Suncroft Road. 4) All ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660014

• 7 Jan 2026N/a

  1) The refurbishment, alteration and extension to the existing dwelling 2) Construction of a new garage 3) Closure of the existing entrance onto Suncroft Road 4) All ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660010

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  a two storey, dormer style, granny flat extension to the rear of our existing house, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561215

• 31 Jul 2025Refused

  for a two storey, two bedroom, dormer style dwelling, along with ancillary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works, on our site at Melrose House, Brownstown Upper, Curragh, Co. Kildare. R56 X902. This dwelling is to serve as accommodation for ourselves

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560867

• 26 May 2025Refused

  for a two storey, two bedroom, dormer style dwelling, along with ancillary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560559

• 16 May 2025N/a

  for a two storey, two bedroom, dormer style dwelling, along with ancillary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works, on our site. This dwelling is to serve as accommodation for ourselves

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560513

• 29 Nov 2024Refused

  for the demolition of the existing family dwelling (now derelict) and the construction of two no. replacement dwelling houses. House No. 1 will comprise of an L-shaped one and a half storey dwelling with a single storey section, with ancillary garage and alterations to the existing entrance onto Brownstown Manor, and all ancillary site works. House No. 2 will comprise of a T- shaped one and a half storey dwelling with a single storey section, with ancillary outbuilding and alterations to the existing entrance onto Suncroft Road, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461268

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  reinstatement of existing building (former dwelling) to original use as dwelling on the grounds of the family landholding, comprising of extensions and alterations to provide kitchen/living/dining area, home office, bedroom, bathroom and utility, with access via existing entrance and driveway to applicant’s family dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360149

• 27 Oct 2022Refused

  a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new double recessed vehicle entrance, c) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facililtating works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221276

• 27 Jun 2022Refused

  a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new recessed vehicle entrance, c) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22778

• 7 Sept 2021Refused

  for reinstatement of existing out-building to original use as dwelling on the grounds of the family landholding, comprising of extensions and alterations to provide kitchen/living/dining area, home office, bedroom, bathroom and utility, with access via existing entrance and driveway to applicant's family dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211268

• 13 Jul 2020N/a

  extension to existing dwelling including conversion of existing domestic out-building to provide c.80sq/m one-bedroom family flat comprising of living room, kitchen, home office, bathroom and bedroom and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20744

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  (a) Demolition of existing flat roof single storey rear extension and detached stables building; (b) Construction of a new (106sqm) single storey extension to the rear of the existing (81sqm) single storey cottage with plan and elevational changes to the existing cottage; (c) Converting the existing 2 bedroom dwelling to a 4 bedroom dwelling; (d) The development shall provide for a new on-site effluent disposal system and surface water soakaway to meet current standards along with all associated site/drainage and landscaping works; (e) New vehicular entrance piers and splayed walls allowing for sufficient sight lines onto the public road

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171334

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 Brownstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brownstown Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brownstown Upper.

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 Brownstown Upper, 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_2571 (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 Brownstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Brownstown Upper · Baile an Bhrúnaigh Uachtarach

Area

959,200 m² (95.92 ha, 237.02 acres)

Civil parish

Carn, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Ballysax West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,233 people lived in 415 households in the Ballysax West electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brownstown Great, Brownstown Little, Brownstown Lower, Carn, Churchland East, Common North, Maddenstown North, Sheshoon

Placenames

Brownstown Upper 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.