Longstone

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longstone, from 671 m² to 222,517 m² (22.25 ha, 54.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Longstone 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.

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  without any time limitation for an existing 250sqm shed (storey and a half with a mezzanine level) as previously granted retention permission under Planning Register Reference 16/1075

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2461224

• 9 Aug 2022Refused

  for dormer bungalow with single storey garage and septic tank with percolation with access through existing laneway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22978

• 29 Jul 2020Refused

  a domestic garage/storage shed with associated site development and facilitating works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20834

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 Longstone.

Recorded monuments

• KD029-060 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In grassland, with adjoining ditch-barrow (KD029-061----) to SW. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 15m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2020. Cropmark of large semi-circular shaped feature to W visible on Google Earth photo of unknown significance. May be the remains of a geomorphological feature rather than the remains of an archaeological feature. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke. Date of upload: 16 October 2020

• KD029-061 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In grassland, with adjoining ditch-barrow (KD029-060----) to NE. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2020. Cropmark of large semi-circular shaped feature to W visible on Google Earth photo of unknown significance. May be the remains of a geomorphological feature rather than the remains of an archaeological feature. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke. Date of upload: 16 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Longstone, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Longstone.

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.

• Longstone, Blessington Road137 sales
• Longstone, Naas12 sales
• Longstone, Craddockstown5 sales

Name

Longstone

Area

690,141 m² (69.01 ha, 170.54 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymore Eustace, and its townlands

Barony

Naas South

Electoral division

Ballymore Eustace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,589 people lived in 582 households in the Ballymore Eustace electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardinode East, Ballybought, Ballymore Eustace West, Broadleas Commons

Placenames

Longstone 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.