Fleshtown
Townland in the civil parish of Killybegs, barony of Clane, Co. Kildare
Parcel 5226689
- Area
- 28,503 m² (2.85 ha, 7.04 acres)
- 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
- Fleshtown
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Jul 2021Refused
development in order to improve the quality of this land for agricultural purposes. The proposed development comprises the importation of 47,000 tonnes of soil and stones, to be spread on the site in three phases and over a period of between three and five years, the changing of the existing land levels on the subject site as part of this process, the creation of a temporary haul road linking the driveway (which is to be built under entrance arrangements which have already been authorised under planning permission Reg. 21/203) with the works area (including a truck turning facility), along with the installation of a wheel-wash and a portable toilet, with chemical treatment of effluent, for the duration of these site operations
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211062
9 Aug 2019Refused
The importation of 47,000 tonnes of soil and stones, to be spread on the site in three stages and over a period of between three and five years, the changing of existing land levels as part of this process, the use of an existing entrance and driveway in connection with this development and the creation of a temporary haul/access road linking the existing driveway with the works area (including a truck turning area), along with the installation of a wheel-wash and a portable toilet, with chemical treatment of effluent, for the duration of these site operations
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19907
20 Dec 2018N/a
development in order to improve the quality of this land for agricultural purposes. The proposal comprises the importation of 47,000 tonnes of soil and stones, to be spread on the site in three stages and over a period of between three and five years, the changing of the existing land levels as part of this process, the use of an existing entrance and driveway in connection with this development and the creation of a temporary haul/access road linking the existing driveway with the works area (including a truck turning area), along with the installation of a wheel-wash and a portable toilet, with chemical treatment of effluent, for the duration of these site operations
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181560
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2721 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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
- 134.2 ha
- 332 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 12,603 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fleshtown, from 29 m² to 515,501 m² (51.55 ha, 127.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Fleshtown 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
8 Feb 2022Conditional
retaining alterations to garage/store block granted permission under PI. Ref. 03/1537, including installation of 5 No. rooflights to side and rear, raising of ridge level for storage accommodation along with all associated ancillary site-works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22131
24 Jan 2022N/a
retaining alterations to garage/store block granted permission under PI. Ref. 03/1357, including installation of 5 No. rooflights to side and rear, raising of ridge level for storage accommodation along with all associated ancillary site-works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2260
2 Dec 2021Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a three car detached garage with a plant room to the side and attic storage over, all to the side of the existing detached dwelling.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211694
21 Sept 2021Conditional
the demolition of a single storey structure to the rear of the existing single storey dwelling, the erection of a single storey extension to the rear, and a single storey extension to the side and front of the existing single storey dwelling, the inclusion of two new skylights to the existing dwelling, the raising of a portion of the roadside boundary wall, the incorporation of a new sliding gate at the existing site entrance, an effluent treatment system and percolation area, and associated site works. The proposed development is adjacent to a protected structure, RPS Ref. No. B14-46, Digby Bridge (and Lock).
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211353
20 Jul 2021Refused
development in order to improve the quality of this land for agricultural purposes. The proposed development comprises the importation of 47,000 tonnes of soil and stones, to be spread on the site in three phases and over a period of between three and five years, the changing of the existing land levels on the subject site as part of this process, the creation of a temporary haul road linking the driveway (which is to be built under entrance arrangements which have already been authorised under planning permission Reg. 21/203) with the works area (including a truck turning facility), along with the installation of a wheel-wash and a portable toilet, with chemical treatment of effluent, for the duration of these site operations
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211062
22 Feb 2021Conditional
existing Agricultural Entrance and Gravel Yard, and Permission to demolish existing boundary wall, erect a new timber post and rail fence in front of existing dwelling to achieve sightlines from existing entrances
Retention · Kildare County Council, 21203
10 Feb 2021N/a
for existing agricultural entrance and gravel yard, demolition of front boundary wall to achieve sightlines at the existing agricultural entrance and erect a new timber post and rail fence
Retention · Kildare County Council, 21148
9 Aug 2019Refused
The importation of 47,000 tonnes of soil and stones, to be spread on the site in three stages and over a period of between three and five years, the changing of existing land levels as part of this process, the use of an existing entrance and driveway in connection with this development and the creation of a temporary haul/access road linking the existing driveway with the works area (including a truck turning area), along with the installation of a wheel-wash and a portable toilet, with chemical treatment of effluent, for the duration of these site operations
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19907
20 Dec 2018N/a
development in order to improve the quality of this land for agricultural purposes. The proposal comprises the importation of 47,000 tonnes of soil and stones, to be spread on the site in three stages and over a period of between three and five years, the changing of the existing land levels as part of this process, the use of an existing entrance and driveway in connection with this development and the creation of a temporary haul/access road linking the existing driveway with the works area (including a truck turning area), along with the installation of a wheel-wash and a portable toilet, with chemical treatment of effluent, for the duration of these site operations
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181560
27 Jan 2017Conditional
constructing an extension to the side of an existing agricultural outbuilding, and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 1784
10 Jan 2017Conditional
of conservatory built at one end of bungalow at
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1710
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
- KD014-071 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Faint outline of cropmark visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Cropmark of field system of probable post-1700 date in field to E. The linear nature of this field system matches some of the fields depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map which suggests that they are post-1700 in date. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Chris Corlett Date of upload: 27 November 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fleshtown.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2721 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fleshtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Fleshtown
- Area
- 1,342,042 m² (134.2 ha, 331.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clane
- Electoral division
- Donore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donore electoral division: 860 people in 279 households; 89% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghpaudeen, Barrettstown, Firmount Demesne, Firmount East, Landenstown, Longtown Demesne, Longtown South, Millicent South
- Placenames
- Fleshtown 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.