Slatequarries

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slatequarries, from 6 m² to 277,150 m² (27.72 ha, 68.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Slatequarries 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.

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct 1) A single storey bungalow type dwelling which will incorporate a family flat to be occupied by my brother Alan Cullen, who requires supervised independent living accommodation. 2) A secondary sewage treatment system with percolation area. 3) A bored well. 4) All associated ancillary ground works. This site will be accessed from the public road via my parents existing driveway under an agreed right of way arrangement. All of the above works on my site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22680

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  the building of a dormer type dwelling with single storey annex, to be serviced with small on site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines and for all associated siteworks including planning permission for upgrade/replacement onsite wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines in lieu of the existing septic system serving the existing dwelling adjacent (belonging to my parents). The proposed dwelling will be accessed via the existing shared entrance and driveway serving my parents dwelling,

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21484

• 23 Dec 2019N/a

  for the continuance of the following development previously permitted under Kildare County Council (KCC) Reg. Ref. 07/443; ABP Ref. PL09.233338 for the operation of a sand, gravel, stone and rock quarry extraction including rock blasting, processing (crushing and screening) of aggregate and ancillary activities on 6.87 hectares with an overall development area of ca. 18.35 hectares for a period of 10 years with a further two years to complete site restoration to agriculture. The development will consist of: (1) continued use of the existing entrance from the L6030, (2) internal access routes, (3) over-burden storage and screening areas/mounds, (4) relocation of weigh-bridge and site office cabin (5) continued use of the existing wheel-wash, (6) aggregate processing (crushing and screening) using mobile plant (two mobile crushing plants and mobile screen, (7) staff welfare facilities and carparking facilities, and (8) the progressive and phased restoration throughout the life of the development. Permission is also sought for (9) the demolition of a residential dwelling within the Application Site boundary. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR), and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 191438

• 4 Mar 2019Refused

  the construction of new 216sqm dormer-storey house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, amendments to existing entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19202

• 21 Dec 2018Refused

  Extension of duration 07/443 continued operation of a sand, gravel,stone and rock quarry on 14.4 hectares of land. The permission is sought for a period of 30 years. The development is for the provision of aggregate materials by extraction,for construction purposes etc

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 181584

• 21 May 2018Refused

  construction of new 216 sq.mt dormer-storey house, with 71 sq.mt. basement garage, wastewater treatment unit & percolation area, amendments to existing entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18589

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 Slatequarries.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Slatequarries.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Slatequarries with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Slatequarries

Area

601,851 m² (60.19 ha, 148.72 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmore, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,175 people in 367 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caureen, Hempstown Commons, Pipershall, Punchestown Upper, Rathbane, Redbog, Tinode (Co. Wicklow)

Placenames

Slatequarries 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.