Davidstown (Pilsworth)

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Davidstown (Pilsworth), from 940 m² to 459,478 m² (45.95 ha, 113.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Davidstown (Pilsworth) 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.

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  Retention for 2. No. existing agricultural livestock units, concrete hardstand area, and all associated site works. Planning permission is also required for the construction of 4.No additional agricultural livestock slatted units, internal access laneway, landscaping, hard stand area and all site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660169

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  For a single storey extension to the rear/sides and enclosed porch to front of existing one and a half storey dwelling (total floor area to be retained = 42.5sqm), together with detached single storey domestic storage shed to rear/side and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20149

• 26 Feb 2018N/a

  a waste recovery facility. The subject site will be ca.7.33 hectares in size. The principal development activity will be the deposition of waste soil and stone at the quarry for the purposes of back filling. This will involve the use of subsoil and overburden, sourced from construction, renovation and demolition sites, to backfill and restore an existing void onsite created by past extraction of materials. The footprint of proposed area to backfill is 1.84 hectares in size. The proposed quantity of such material to be accepted and infilled would be less than 17,500 tonnes per annum and overall is expected to be approximately 100,000 tonnes throughout the operational phase of the proposed activity. The principal waste activity will be for the purposes of recovering said materials through land deposition, and to achieve the improvement and development of land and site restoration. In addition to the principal waste activity described above, it is proposed to carry out the following secondary waste recovery activities: Intake of topsoil, screening at proposed screening plant and resale of such material, Intake of gravel and sands, washing at existing washing plant and resale of such materials, Intake of concrete, concrete crushing using concrete crushing equipment, mixing with sand and gravel before being fed to the washing plant to form aggregate and resale of such material and intake of garden waste, shredding and composting of this waste within a silage pit draining to an underground effluent storage tank, for use for agricultural land spreading. In all less that 25,000 tonnes of waste materials will be accepted on-site for recovery per annum. A Waste Facility Permit will be obtained for site activities as they will fall under the scope of the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations as amended.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18196

• 16 Jan 2018N/a

  the use of a part existing quarry site as a Materials Recovery Facility at Graney West, Co.Kildare. The subject site will be ca. 7.33 hectares in size. The principal development activity will involve the use of subsoil and overburden, sourced from construction, renovation and demolition sites to backfill and restore an existing void onsite created by past extraction of materials. The footprint of proposed area to backfill is 1.84 hecatres in size. The proposed quantity of such material to be accepted and infilled would be less than ca. 17,500 tonnes per annum and overall is expected to be ca. 100,000 tonnes throughout the operational phase of the proposed activity. The waste activity will be for the purposes of recovering said materials through land deposition and to achieve the improvement and development of land and site restoration. In addition to the principal waste activity described above, it is proposed to carry out the following waste recovery activities: Intake of top-soil, screening at proposed screening plant and resale of such material. Intake of gravel and sands, washing at existing washing plant and resale of such materials. Intake of concrete, concrete crushing using concrete crushing equipment, mixing with sand and gravel before being fed to the washing plant to form aggregate and resale of such material and; Intake of garden waste, shredding and composting of this waste for agricultural land spreading. In all, less than 25,000 tonnes of waste materials will be accepted on-site for recovery per annum. A waste facility permit will ne obtained for site activities as they will fall under the scope if the waste management (facility permit & registration) regulations as amended

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1839

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 Davidstown (Pilsworth).

Recorded monuments

• KD040-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Circular area surrounded by an earthen bank with slight traces of fosse visible only at E (max diam. c. 45m). Entrance not identifiable. Heavily overgrown with scrub. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown as a circular enclosure of Taylor's map of County Kildare (1783). No visible surface traces. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-049 Mound
  Description

  Appears as a possible earthwork on GSI aerial photo S 57, 56 but may well be just a natural hillock. Not recorded on the OS 6-inch maps. G. Conroy. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Davidstown (Pilsworth).

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 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 moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2607 (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 Davidstown (Pilsworth) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Davidstown (Pilsworth)

Area

1,492,729 m² (149.27 ha, 368.86 acres)

Civil parish

Graney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Graney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

803 people lived in 274 households in the Graney electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coltstown, Crophill, Graney West, Knockpatrick, Mullarney, Plunketstown Lower

Placenames

Davidstown (Pilsworth) 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.