Quinsborough

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Quinsborough, from 314 m² to 625,009 m² (62.5 ha, 154.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 May 2009Invalid - site notice

  Retention permission for single storey 3 bedroom dwelling also permission to install proprietary effluent treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD09A/0213

• 20 Apr 2009Refuse permission

  4 bedroom two storey dwelling, domestic garage proprietary effluent treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD09A/0160

• 6 Mar 2009Invalid application

  Retention permission for change of use from stables and living accommodation to single storey 3 bedroom dwelling also permission to install septic tank and proprietary effluent treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD09A/0097

• 12 Dec 2008Grant permission for retention

  (a) Retention of change of use of the attic area to a bedroom and a games room; (b) retention of the dormer windows to the front and to the rear of the dwelling; (c) retention of Septic Tank.

  Retention · South Dublin County Council, SD08B/0793

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 Quinsborough.

Recorded monuments

• KD015-020 Moated site
  Description

  Cropmark of rectangular-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 48m WNW-ESE x 40m NNE-SSW ) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Possible levelled moated site. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Faith Bailey Date of upload: 01 October 2019

• KD015-028 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere; in tillage and visible on Apple Maps aerial imagery as a circular area (diam. c. 12m) defined by the cropmark of a fosse. See attached image: KD015-028----_01 Snip of Apple Maps aerial image. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Quinsborough, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2904 (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 Quinsborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Quinsborough

Area

631,008 m² (63.1 ha, 155.93 acres)

Civil parish

Oughterard, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

846 people lived in 271 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackchurch, Castlewarden South, Farmersvale (Co. Dublin), Huttonread, Newrow, Oldmilltown

Placenames

Quinsborough 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.