Brownstown Little

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownstown Little, from 1,088 m² to 243,556 m² (24.36 ha, 60.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Brownstown Little 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.

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  for change of use of agricultural land for use as an existing yard for storage of land reclaimation machinery and drainage material. Retention of earth bunding to help screen the development as constructed. Retention of existing entrance as constructed, permission for the construction of a new storage shed for agricultural machinery, permission for temporary welfare facilities (portaloo and staff canteen) and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660710

• 3 Nov 2025Refused

  for a two storey dwelling, domestic garage and effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25169

• 15 Apr 2024Conditional

  for domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24122

• 10 Apr 2024N/a

  Development will consist of permission for a domestic garage and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24121

• 19 Mar 2024N/a

  Domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2498

• 12 Mar 2024N/a

  Planning permission sought for domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2491

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 Brownstown Little.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Brownstown Little.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Brownstown Little, 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_2571 (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 Brownstown Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Brownstown Little · Baile an Bhrúnaigh Beag

Area

319,729 m² (31.97 ha, 79.01 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysax, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Ballysax East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,090 people lived in 706 households in the Ballysax East electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfair, Brownstown Great, Brownstown Upper, Common North

Placenames

Brownstown Little 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.