Shortwood

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shortwood, from 29 m² to 131,187 m² (13.12 ha, 32.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Shortwood 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.

• 2 Jul 2026Refused

  for the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling, the provision of a new vehicular driveway connecting to an existing road entrance, a new waste-water treatment system and percolation area. The provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site development works. The change of use of the existing dwelling to agricultural use.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660736

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  for the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling, the provision of a new vehicular driveway connecting to an existing road entrance, a new waste-water treatment system and percolation area. The provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site development works. The change of use of the existing dwelling to agricultural use.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660724

• 15 Jun 2026N/a

  (A) construction of a single storey type house, (B) garage / store for domestic use, (C) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and (D) Upgrading works to the existing family home entrance gateway to form a new combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway to serve the new house and all associated site works Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: The red line boundary of the site has changed between application stage and further information stage

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660642

• 12 Jun 2026N/a

  Construction of a single storey type house, garage / store for domestic use, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and upgrading works to the existing family home entrance gateway to form a new combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway to serve the new house and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660629

• 24 Aug 2020Conditional

  (1) the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; (2) the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with attached stables and an on-site waste water system, (3) the provision of a new vehicular driveway and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20950

• 12 Aug 2020N/a

  (1) the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; (2) the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with attached stables and an on-site waste water system, (3) the provision of a new vehicular drive-way and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20899

• 13 Sept 2019N/a

  The demolition of an existing single storey dwelling, the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling with stables, the provision of a new vehicular driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191023

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling; the construction of a detached, two storey dwelling; the provision of a new vehicular driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18341

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 Shortwood.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shortwood.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shortwood, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2802 (ZIP).

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

Name

Shortwood

Area

422,375 m² (42.24 ha, 104.37 acres)

Civil parish

Whitechurch, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Bodenstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,091 people lived in 1,700 households in the Bodenstown electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Daars North, Ladycastle Upper, Rathmore, Turnings

Placenames

Shortwood 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.