Prumpelstown Upper

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prumpelstown Upper, from 45 m² to 293,706 m² (29.37 ha, 72.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Prumpelstown 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.

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of c.8.89km section of the conductor along the existing Athy - Carlow 110 kV OHL circuit; - Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; - Replacement of 11No. existing Intermediate Wooden Polesets, with similar structures. The replacement of these structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 24m, with height increases between 1m and 3m; - Replacement of 12No. existing intermediate Wooden Polesets crossarms; - Recapping works on shear blocks at 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Foundation strengthening of 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Bar member replacements to 8No. existing steel angle masts; - Separation of the existing double OHL circuit to provide for a new bypass OHL section measuring approximately 422m, connecting from the existing Athy 110 kV substation to the following proposed new structures on the existing Athy - Portlaoise 110 kV OHL: 2no. new single circuit angle masts (approximately 22.5m maximum height) and 1no. new wooden poleset (approximately 23.6m maximum height); and, - All associated works/development to existing structures, including hardware replacement (strain clamps, suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of step bolts, replacement of line identification and danger notices, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anti-climbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660550

• 20 Feb 2023N/a

  for the construction of a silage pit and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23148

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  (1) Livestock shed to include straw bedded area, cow cubicles and feed passages, underground slatted slurry storage, milking parlour and dairy washings tank, dairy, farm office and plant room. (2) Unroofed silage slab. (3) Overground round slurry store with receptor tank. (4) Meal bin, along with concrete yards and all ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18548

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD039-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 48, 51, BOC 83) show a cropmark of a narrow fosse defining half of a circular enclosure (est. max diam. c. 45m). Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 48, 51; BOC 83, 84) show a cropmark of a fosse defining a small circular area (est. max diam. c. 20m). Probably a ringbarrow or ringditch. (See also enclosures 39:10-2, 27-8 and trackways 38:29-31). Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-010 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 48; 51; BOC 84) show a cropmark of a fosse defining a small circular area (est. max diam. c. 15m). Probably a ringbarrow or ringditch. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BOC 81, 84; BGH 50) show a cropmark of a fosse defining a small circular area (est. max diam. c. 15m), immediately to SW of No. 39:12**. Probably a ringbarrow or ringditch. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BOC 81, 84; BGH 50) show a cropmark of a fosse defining a small circular area (est. max diam. c. 15m), immediately to NE of No. 39:11**. Probably a ringbarrow or ringditch. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 48, 50, 51) shows a cropmark of a fosse defining a very small circular area (est. max diam. c. 10m). Probably a ringbarrow or ringditch. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-028 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP BOC 81, 84) shows a circular area defined by a cropmark of a fosse (est. max diam. c. 20m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch.

• KD039-029 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 48, 51; BOC 83) show cropmarks of two parallel fosses, visible for c. 250 m. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-030 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 48, 51) show the cropmarks of parallel fosses, possibly representing two sides of an enclosed rectangular area or an abruptly curving trackway (est. max. dims. c. 120m NW-SE; 70m NE-SW). No visible surface traces. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-031 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP BOC 83; BGH 48) show cropmarks of two parallel fosses, running E-W and curving slightly towards the S before straightening. Visible for c. 300m. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-051 Ring-ditch
  Description

  First recorded in August 1995 during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett. Aerial photograph (GB95.FU.30) shows the cropmark of a ring-ditch; one of two ring-ditches (KD039-052----) located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011

• KD039-052 Ring-ditch
  Description

  First recorded in August 1995 during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett. Aerial photograph (GB95.FU.30) shows the cropmark of a ring-ditch; one of two ring-ditches (KD039-051----) located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011

• KD040-019 Enclosure
  Description

  One of two small enclosures visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 49) as a cropmark of a small enclosure defined by a fosse (est. max diam. c. 25m). Probably a ringbarrow or ringditch. Situated c. 100m to NE of second site (KD040-020----).

• KD040-020 Enclosure
  Description

  One of two small enclosures visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 49) as a cropmark of a small enclosure defined by a fosse (est. max diam. c. 25m). Probably a ringbarrow or ringditch. Situated c. 100m to SW of second site (KD040-019----). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-039 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 49) shows a circular cropmark (est. max diam. c. 20m), possibly the base of a mound. Situated c. 200m SE of KD040-020----. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Prumpelstown 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 Prumpelstown 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_2546 (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 Prumpelstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Prumpelstown Upper · Baile Phrompail Uachtarach

Area

882,707 m² (88.27 ha, 218.12 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Johnstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

198 people lived in 65 households in the Johnstown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghmoon, Ballyburn Lower, Ballyburn Upper, Gorteenvacan, Johnstown South, Newtownallen, Prumpelstown Lower

Placenames

Prumpelstown 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.