Sousheen Common

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sousheen Common, from 3,870 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) to 20,536 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.

• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Ballymore Eustace, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Nov 2018Conditional

  84 No. dwellings in total (consisting of 10 No. Type A, four bedroom, two storey detached houses of 175sqm, 5 No. Type A1, four bedroom two storey detached houses of 175sqm, 2 No. Type B, four bedroom two storey detached houses of 140sqm, 7 No. Type B1, four bedroom, two storey detached houses of 140sqm, 12 No. Type B1s, four bedroom, two storey semi-detached houses of 140sqm, 3 No. Type B2, four bedroom, two storey detached houses of 149sqm, 3 No. Type B4s four bedroom, two storey semi-detached houses of 149sqm, 1 No. Type C, three bedroom, two storey, detached house of 112sqm, 5 No. Type Cs, three bedroom, two storey, semi-detached house of 112sqm, 15 No. Type C1s three bedroom, two storey semi-detached house of 112sqm, 5 No. Type D, two bedroom, single storey detached houses of 87sqm, 11 No. Type D1s, two bedroom single storey semi-detached houses of 87sqm, 1 No. Type DD, two bedroom, single storey detached house of 92sqm, 2 No. Type E1, two bedroom apartment of 77sqm, 2 No. Type E2, one bedroom apartment of 50sqm), a single storey crèche (210sqm), single storey residents’ gym (90sqm), a medical clinic with 4 No. consultants’ suites (180sqm), a retail unit (76sqm) and Design Centre/office (360sqm), public parkland and associated road works, parking, footpaths and cycle facilities, drainage, hard and soft landscaping including 2 No. pedestrian bridges over the stream and associated engineering works necessary to serve the development on lands to the south of Coughlanstown Road and the Naas Road in the townland

  Permission, 82 homes · Kildare County Council, 181347

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Liffey Valley Meander Belt 000393

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sousheen Common.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Sousheen Common, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Sousheen Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Sousheen Common

Area

32,156 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymore Eustace, and its townlands

Barony

Naas South

Electoral division

Ballymore Eustace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,589 people lived in 582 households in the Ballymore Eustace electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore Eustace East, Ballymore Eustace West, Kimmeens

Placenames

Sousheen Common 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.