Longtown South

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longtown South, from 9 m² to 294,372 m² (29.44 ha, 72.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Longtown South 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.

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  Retention and Planning Permission. Retention Sought for: A New Roof to an Existing Grain Store. Permission Sought for: (A) A New Machine Shed to Rear of Existing Grain Store, (B) A New Slatted Cattle Shed, with Dungsted and New Setdown Concrete Yard, and extension to existing farm road, (C) Revised Configuration to existing recessed vehicular entrance and driveway / avenue (D) and all associated site works including boundary treatments

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660191

• 18 Feb 2026N/a

  Retention of a New Roof to an Existing Grain Store and Permission for: (A) A New Machine Shed to Rear of Existing Grain Store (B) A New Slatted Cattle Shed, with Dungsted and New Setdown Concrete Yard, and extension to existing farm road. (C) Revised Configuration to existing recessed vehicular entrance and driveway / avenue (D) and all associated site works including boundary treatments

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660153

• 9 Feb 2026N/a

  (A) erection of agricultural use shed in the existing farmyard for the storage of farm machinery. (B) erection of agricultural use, slatted cattle shed with underground effluent tank and attached silage bays in a new farmyard approx. 280M to the north east of the existing farmyard and house. (C) upgrade of existing farm access lane to a 4M wide bound surface roadway for a length of approx. 230M with associated access points to the existing house, farmyard and field gates. (D) upgrade of existing entrance from the Prosperous to Sallins Road to a double recessed vehicular entrance with sliding gates, piers and splayed wing walls. (E) all associated ancillary surface water drainage and siteworks

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660110

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  for (A) Temporary retention for a period of 2 years sought for the existing mobile home on site. (B) refurbishment of existing derelict cottage complete with new slate roof and the restoration of existing stone walls and the insertion of new window fenestration to front (south east) elevation, (C) single storey extension to side (north east) elevation and link roof to rear (north west) elevation, (D) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (E) upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to a new vehicular recessed entrance gate and piers and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: The garage is now part of the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560397

• 10 Apr 2025N/a

  for (A) Temporary retention for a period of 2 years sought for the existing mobile home on site. (B) refurbishment of existing derelict cottage complete with new slate roof and the restoration of existing stone walls and the insertion of new window fenestration to front (south east) elevation, (C) single storey extension to side (north east) elevation and link roof to rear (north west) elevation, (D) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (E) upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to a new vehicular recessed entrance gate and piers and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560380

• 8 Feb 2022Conditional

  retaining alterations to garage/store block granted permission under PI. Ref. 03/1537, including installation of 5 No. rooflights to side and rear, raising of ridge level for storage accommodation along with all associated ancillary site-works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22131

• 24 Jan 2022N/a

  retaining alterations to garage/store block granted permission under PI. Ref. 03/1357, including installation of 5 No. rooflights to side and rear, raising of ridge level for storage accommodation along with all associated ancillary site-works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2260

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a single storey storage shed for the housing of domestic fuel and vintage vehicles (for hobby use only), and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20295

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 Longtown South.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-088 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 46m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Seán Sourke Date of upload: 02 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Longtown South, 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_2684 (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 Longtown South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Longtown South · An Baile Fada Theas

Area

1,251,297 m² (125.13 ha, 309.2 acres)

Civil parish

Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Clane

Electoral division

Downings, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,091 people lived in 1,014 households in the Downings electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fleshtown, Killybegs Demesne, Landenstown, Longtown Demesne

Placenames

Longtown South 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.