Piercetown

599 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Piercetown, from 3 m² to 47,831 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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 Piercetown 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.

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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 Piercetown.

Recorded monuments

• KD023-010 Enclosure
  Description

  In a built up suburb of Newbridge town. Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as the S part of a circular enclosure (est. ext. diam. c. 45m) truncated by a road NW-N-NE, the enclosing element from ENE-SE acting as portion of the townland boundary between Piercetown and Moorfield. No visible surface traces survived in 1986, the area being a small open space skirted along the W by a modern curving access road to a housing estate (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble road bridge over railway line, c.1870, with cut-stone voussoirs, cut-stone stringcourse, and cut-stone coping to parapet wall. Broken coursed squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone stringcourse. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single elliptical arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning Great Southern and Western Railway line. Grass banks to railway line.

• Newbridge Railway Station, railway station, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached six-bay single-storey yellow brick railway station, opened 1846, comprising two-bay single-storey central block with single-bay single-storey recessed flaking bay to right (north-east) having single-bay single-storey recessed entrance wing to right (north-east) with single-bay single-storey open cell to attic (sheltering stairwell), and two-bay single-storey recessed wing to left (south-west). Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks (one of yellow brick base having cut-granite quoin dressings). Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Yellow brick Flemish bond walls. Cut-granite quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite mullions. Cut-granite sills and block-and-start surrounds having hood mouldings over. 1/1 timber sash windows with fixed-pane overlights. Shallow pointed-arch door opening. Cut-granite chamfered doorcase. Timber panelled double doors. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt/carpark to site.

• Newbridge Railway Station, foot bridge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch cast-iron footbridge over railway line, built 1846, approached by flight of steps to north-west (with open stair well cell to railway station to south-east). Red brick walls to flight of steps. Round-headed blind openings following gradient of steps with red brick voussoirs. Cut-granite steps over having cast-iron railings. Single shallow segmental arch with cast-iron beams having cast-iron deck panels over and lattice work wrought iron parapet walls. Sited spanning Great Southern and Western Railway line in grounds shared with Newbridge Railway Station complex.

• Newbridge Railway Station, post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1890, with raised "VR" royal cipher and crown motif. Mounted in wall of Newbridge Railway Station.

• Newbridge Railway Station, building misc, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone building, c.1870. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broken coursed squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Yellow brick block-and-start surrounds. Cut-stone lintels. Openings now blocked-up. Shallow segmental-headed door opening. Yellow brick surround. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in grounds shared with Newbridge Railway Station.

• Newbridge Railway Station, platform, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey mono-pitched passenger shelter, c.1870. Mono-pitched roof with slate. Cut-stone coping to ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Rendered walls. Painted. Square-headed door openings. Stone sills. Timber panelled doors (some with sidelights). Set back from road in grounds shared with Newbridge Railway Station complex. Freestanding gable-ended canopy, c.1870, to front (south-east) on cast-iron pillars having cast-iron brackets. Reroofed, c.1985. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-Perspex, c.1985. Timber eaves board. Rendered ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber boarded panels to gables. Group of five cast-iron columns (two to shelter) with decorative pedestals and capitals having curved brackets over.

• Newbridge Railway Station, station master's house, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay single-storey former railway station master’s house with half-dormer attic , built 1846, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay to right (north-east) having single-bay single-storey canted bay window, two-bay single-storey lower wing to left (south-west) and single-bay single-storey lower wing to right (north-east). Part refenestrated, c.1985. Now in use as offices. Gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to projecting bay). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Painted. Cut-granite dressings including quoins to corners. Cut-granite walls to canted bay window. Roughcast gablet to half-dormer attic with cut-granite diamond panel. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay window). Cut-granite sills and chamfered reveals. Cut-granite hood mouldings over. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1985. Shallow pointed-arch door opening. Cut-granite chamfered doorcase. Replacement timber panelled door. Set back from road in grounds shared with Newbridge Railway Station complex.

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 Piercetown, 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_2599 (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.

• Piercetown, Newbridge30 sales

Name

Piercetown

Area

617,391 m² (61.74 ha, 152.56 acres)

Civil parish

Morristownbiller, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Droichead Nua Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,874 people lived in 2,945 households in the Droichead Nua (Newbridge) Urban electoral division. 57% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Common, Cornelscourt, Greatconnell, Moorfield, Morristownbiller, Oldconnell, Rickardstown

Placenames

Piercetown 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.