Prusselstown

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prusselstown, from 13 m² to 251,319 m² (25.13 ha, 62.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P1Agriculture
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 1 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 Prusselstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-017001 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing pasture slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 74 (1967)) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a roughly circular area (est. diam. c. 40m) together with the cropmarks of a possible field system (KD035-017002-) adjacent to SE. Possibly a levelled rath and associated field system. No visible surface trace survives. The cropmark of a possible rectangular enclosure (KD035-017003-) in the next field to the SW, is also visible on this aerial photo. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November 2013

• KD035-017002 Field system
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing pasture slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 74 (1967)) as the cropmarks of a roughly rectangular field system (est. c. 100m NW-SE; c. 70m NE-SW), together with the cropmark of an adjacent enclosure (KD035-017001-) to the NW: possibly a levelled rath and associated field system. The cropmark of a possible rectangular enclosure (KD035-017003-) in the next field to the SW, is also visible. No visible surface trace survives. The cropmark of a possible rectangular enclosure (KD035-017003-) in the next field to the SW, is also visible on this aerial photo. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November 2013

• KD035-017003 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing pasture slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 74 (1967)) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a rectangular area (est. c. 20m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE). No visible surface trace survives. The photograph also shows the cropmarks of a possible rath and associated field system in the next field to the NE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November 2013

• KD035-118 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Apple Maps as the cropmark of a fosse defining a sub-circular enclosure (estimated maximum diameter c. 80m). Associated linear cropmarks may be the remains of an ancient field system. (pers. comm. C. Chambers, 25-06-2015). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 21-12-2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Prusselstown, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2398 (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 Prusselstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Prusselstown

Area

1,028,002 m² (102.8 ha, 254.02 acres)

Civil parish

St. Michael's, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

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

Clonmullin, Gallowshill, Geraldine, Sawyerswood, Shamrocklodge, Tomard

Placenames

Prusselstown 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.