Plunketstown Lower

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plunketstown Lower, from 15 m² to 327,988 m² (32.8 ha, 81.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Plunketstown Lower 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.

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  Retention for 2. No. existing agricultural livestock units, concrete hardstand area, and all associated site works. Planning permission is also required for the construction of 4.No additional agricultural livestock slatted units, internal access laneway, landscaping, hard stand area and all site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660169

• 17 Apr 2020Conditional

  to erect underground slatted effluent storage tank, end walls, feeding barrier, concrete yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20402

• 1 Apr 2020N/a

  to erect underground slatted effluent storage tank, end walls, feeding barrier, concrete yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20344

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  To erect a roofless walled silage storage pit and all associated site works on this site

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181284

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  erect a farm building to include a milking facility, calving area, slatted underground effluent storage tank, meal storage bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18400

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 Plunketstown Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Plunketstown Lower.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2607 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Plunketstown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Plunketstown Lower

Area

1,198,418 m² (119.84 ha, 296.14 acres)

Civil parish

Graney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Graney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graney electoral division: 803 people in 274 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crophill, Davidstown (Pilsworth), Knockaphuca, Knockpatrick, Moatavanny, Plunketstown Upper, Saintjohns

Placenames

Plunketstown Lower 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.