Riverstown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riverstown, from 425 m² to 257,650 m² (25.77 ha, 63.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Riverstown 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.

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  A. new tennis court within the curtilage of the house, enclosed by a 2.4m high fence on two sides and a 3.6M high fence to south boundary. All at a Protected Structure

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21869

• 28 May 2021N/a

  a new tennis court within the curtilage of the house, enclosed by a 2.4m high fence on two sides and a 3.6m high fence to south boundary

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21747

• 2 Jun 2020Conditional

  amendments and additions to previous planning permission application ref:18/1456 including demolition of existing non-historic two-storey extension and replacement with new single-storey extension; three new windows to historic detail, two in historic openings and one new opening; alterations to historic internal layout and fabric including new lowered first floor in north of east wing pavilion and two new en-suite bathrooms (a Protected Structure)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20553

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  New single storey extension to rear, landscaping works, refurbishment works to existing house consisting of reinstatement of windows to historic detail, three new window openings, three new roof lights to rear, reinstatement of former arched opening to rear, renewal of external lime render, alterations to historic internal layout and fabric, new staircase, secondary glazing, internal breathable insulation, limecrete ground floor, renewal of mechanical and electrical services. Revised by significant further information consisting of; provision of a new wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181456

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD026-011 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a farmyard c. 85m N of Riverstown House. A large, heavily overgrown circular area (diam. 10m) is enclosed by a stone wall. Jackson (1979-80, 158) recorded that, ‘There are six upright stone posts in the centre of the well on which is placed a wooden cross. A stone with indentations beside the well is said to be the imprints of the saint’s knees. The well is still visited for cures … [but] there is no record ofa Pattern. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• Riverstown House, house, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey building, c.1775, on a T-shaped plan possibly originally part of larger building retaining early aspect with series of round-headed openings to ground floor, single-bay two-storey advanced bays to side elevations having full-height round-headed recessed niches with single-storey round-headed flanking niches, and three-bay two-storey return to rear having single-bay two-storey projecting bay with full-height round-headed recessed niche to side elevation. Hipped roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Square rooflights. Moulded eaves band. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls over rubble stone construction (exposed rubble stone construction to side elevations and to part of return). Stringcourse to spring of round-headed openings and to first floor. Round-headed recessed niches (single-storey and full-height) to various elevations. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Continuous sill course to first floor. 1/1, 2/2, 3/3 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Series of round-headed openings to ground floor (including door opening). Timber panelled double doors. Spoked fanlights to all round-headed openings. Set back from road in own part-overgrown grounds. Gravel verge to front.Detached five-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half attic, c.1775, to site. Now disused and part derelict. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Eaves band. Rainwater goods now gone. Rubble stone walls. Red brick dressings. Shallow segmental-headed window openings. Stone sills. Red brick to heads. Fittings now gone. Remains of shallow segmental-headed integral carriageways. Red brick dressings. One now blocked-up (rubble stone) with one remodelled, c.1900, having lintel added forming square-headed opening. Fittings now gone.

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 Riverstown, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Riverstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Riverstown

Area

976,106 m² (97.61 ha, 241.2 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrackan, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Ballybrackan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

660 people lived in 223 households in the Ballybrackan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belan (Co. Laois), Derryoughter East, Derryoughter West, Fearmore, Fisherstown (Co. Laois), Gorteen, Grangecoor, Killeen West, Lughil

Placenames

Riverstown 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.