Loughlion

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughlion, from 25 m² to 115,304 m² (11.53 ha, 28.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Industry and Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Loughlion.

Recorded monuments

• KD022-108 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  'Site 8', Loughlion, on the line of the Kildare town bypass, was excavated (Thaddeus C. Breen, Licence No. 01E0846: www.excavations.ie) and found to comprise three pits containing charcoal-rich soil with burnt stones, and a few other features. The pits containing burnt mound material were as follows: Feature 8 was an oval pit, 2m by 1.6m and 0.43m deep. It was flat-bottomed, with two stake-holes in the base. Feature 10, immediately to the east of Feature 8, was shallow and subrectangular, measuring 1.9m by 0.87m with an average depth of 0.15m. Feature 16 was oval, 0.6m by 0.55m and 0.4 deep. It lay 3.5m to the south of Feature 8. Four metres to the north-east of Features 8 and 10 were six post-holes or possible post-holes which may have formed part of a small square or rectangular structure. An oval pit (KD022-109----) was found 66m to the east. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• KD022-109 Burnt pit
  Description

  'Site 8', Loughlion was found 66m east of a burnt mound (KD022-108----). It was excavated (Thaddeus C. Breen, Licence No. 01E0846: www.excavations.ie) and comprised an oval pit, 0.9m by 0.5m and 0.34m deep, containing three fills, only the uppermost of which contained charcoal. Beside it was a smaller pit, in the bottom of which a small whetstone was found. Nearby were two more small pits, a possible post-hole and some spade cultivation furrows. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Loughlion, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughlion.

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 Loughlion with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Loughlion

Area

315,111 m² (31.51 ha, 77.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kildare, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Kildare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

11,587 people lived in 3,873 households in the Kildare electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Greyabbey, Kildare, Knockshough Glebe, Mooretown, Silliothill, Whitesland West

Placenames

Loughlion 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.