Ellistown
Ellistown is a townland in the civil parish of Rathangan, barony of Offaly East, Co. Kildare.
Parcel 4981148
- Area
- 323 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ellistown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 187.6 ha
- 464 acres
- Land parcels
- 84
- registered freehold, median 2,622 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ellistown, from 24 m² to 300,934 m² (30.09 ha, 74.36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ellistown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jul 2026N/a
Paula O'Rourke & Leo Martin intend to apply for Planning Permission for a development at Ellistown, Kildare, Co Kildare The development will consist of the erection of an Agricultural shed of circa 280sq.m and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660733
31 Mar 2025Conditional
for new single storey dwelling, closing of existing field entrance and upgrading of neighbours existing recessed entrance to double recessed entrance to provide vehicular access, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Revised access arrangement via upgrading the existing field entrance, revisions to application site boundary, revised landscaping layout
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560333
28 Mar 2025N/a
for new single storey dwelling, closing of existing field entrance and upgrading of neighbours existing recessed entrance to double recessed entrance to provide vehicular access, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560325
12 Dec 2024Refused
for single storey dwelling, upgrading of existing field entrance to new recessed entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461331
11 Dec 2024N/a
for a new single storey dwelling, upgrading of existing field entrance to new recessed entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461326
31 Jul 2023Conditional
1) Pitch perimeter fencing, circa 1.2 metres in height, around the main pitch & training pitch 2) 4 no. Dug outs, one on each side line of the main pitch & training pitch 3) Ball stopping nets to one end of the main pitch & both ends of the training pitch 4) Walking track around both pitches & walk path linking both 5) Ball wall circa 6metre in height 6) Electrical score board at the main pitch 7) Extension to existing car parking area comprising of circa 30 no. additional parking spaces 8) Construction of a disabled access ramp, elevated path & steps to side & rear of existing club house to replace existing access ramps and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360078
1 Sept 2022Refused
Development will consist of constructing a cluster of 4 No. 4-bed detached bungalows, 4 No. detached domestic garages, installation of 4 No. individual effluent treatment systems, new recessed vehicular entrance with new roadway and footpaths leading to 4 No. individual site entrances and all associated ancillary siteworks Revised by Significant Further Information 1) change to the red line boundary; 2) revised layout; 3) revised surface water system; 4) relocation of proposed entrance to access from Redhills Park.
Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 221071
8 Oct 2020Conditional
a single storey style dwelling, domestic garage, new recessed entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of revised site boundary, revised access arrangement and increased site area
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201171
16 Jun 2020N/a
proposed two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, tri-cell sewage treatment system and percolation area, combined recessed entrance incorporating existing farm entrance, and all other associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20616
25 May 2020N/a
two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, tri-cell sewage treatment system and percolation area, combined recessed entrance incorporating existing farm entrance, and all other associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20514
7 Feb 2019Conditional
sought for a bungalow type dwelling and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and percolation area with new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19107
16 Mar 2018Conditional
replacing the existing detached Montessori building with a single storey, detached, permanent, Montessori building of circa 90sqm, foul water to existing on site effluent treatment system, surface water to existing soakaways and all associated site works in the grounds
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18287
30 Jan 2018Conditional
the construction of a 2 storey 4 bedroom dwelling house with single storey living space attached, detached garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1885
28 Aug 2017Conditional
Construction of a 2 storey 4 bedroom dwelling house with single story living space attached, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17971
11 May 2017Refused
replacing the existing detached Montessori building with a single storey, detached, permanent, Montessori building of circa 90sqm, foul water to existing on site effluent treatment system, surface water to existing soakaways and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17536
20 Apr 2017N/a
replacing the existing detached Montessori building with a single storey, detached, permanent, Montessori building of circa 90sq.m, foul water to existing on site effluent treatment system, surface water to existing soakaways and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17440
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ellistown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ellistown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ellistown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ellistown, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ellistown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ellistown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ellistown
- Area
- 1,876,205 m² (187.62 ha, 463.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathangan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Electoral division
- Thomastown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 990 people lived in 294 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonmoyle, Concealment, Knavinstown, Knocknagalliagh, Thomastown West, Tullylost, Watergrange
- Placenames
- Ellistown 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.