Greenfield

1,479 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenfield, from 0 m² to 32,506 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 89 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.

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1,361 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2General Development (General)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S6Transport and Utilities (Other community services/facilities uses)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Greenfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenfield.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1905. Refenestrated and extended, c.1980, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north-west. Gable-ended roof with slate. Red clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stack. Exposed timber eaves. Timber bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofed to return. Bitumen felt. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Red brick (painted) dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings (shallow segmental-headed window openings to gables to side elevations to north-east and to south-west). Stone sills (concrete to return). Red brick (painted) block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings over. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1980. Square-headed door opening in round-headed recessed panel having red brick (painted) block-and-start surround with hood moulding over. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Overlight. Rendered pediment to round-headed panel over. Set back from road in own grounds.

• House, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1905. Extensively renovated, c.1985. One of a pair. Hipped gabled roof (hipped gabled section (shared) to dormer attic). Replacement artificial slate, c.1985. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Replacement timber eaves and bargeboards, c.1985. Replacement plastic rainwater goods, c.1985. Replacement render, c.1985, to walls. Painted. Red brick dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to return). Red brick block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings over. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1985. Square-headed door opening in round-headed recessed panel having red brick block-and-start surround with hood moulding over. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1985. Overlight. Rendered pediment to round-headed panel over. Set back from road in own grounds. Rubble stone boundary wall to front.

• Maynooth Railway Station, station master's house, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey red brick former station master’s house, built 1884, originally on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey advanced porch to centre and single-bay two-storey gabled projecting bay to left. Extended, c.1975, comprising two-bay two-storey flat-roofed lower return to rear to south-west. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1995. Now in private residential use. Gable-ended roofs on an L-shaped plan (with hipped section to corner) with slate (quarter-hipped to porch). Red clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofed to return. Bitumen felt. Red brick Flemish bond walls (red brick Running bond walls to return). Black vitrified brick dressings including stringcourses. Segmental-headed window openings (square-headed to return). Stone sills (concrete to return). Black vitrified brick dressings. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Segmental-headed door opening. Black vitrified brick dressings. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Set back from road in own grounds.

• Maynooth Railway Station, signal box, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey signal box, built 1847, with timber-clad first floor. Disused, post-1947. Recommissioned, 1981. Renovated, c.1990. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles with red clay finials. Cut-stone chimney stack. Overhanging timber eaves. Profiled timber bargeboards to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rusticated granite ashlar walls to ground floor. Cut-stone stringcourse over. Timber-clad walls to first floor. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills and lintels to ground floor. Original 2/2 timber sash windows. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Timber sills to first floor. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Set back from road in grounds shared with Maynooth Railway Station sited on north platform.

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 Greenfield, about 1 in 20 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 and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2833 (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.

• Greenfield, Maynooth8 sales

Name

Greenfield · An Gort Glas

Area

808,897 m² (80.89 ha, 199.88 acres)

Civil parish

Laraghbryan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Maynooth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

18,729 people lived in 6,110 households in the Maynooth electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Collegeland, Dowdstown, Maynooth, Moneycooly, Newtown, Railpark

Placenames

Greenfield 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.