Kilbride
Townland in the civil parish of Barragh, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow; in Irish Cill Bhríde
- Area
- 303.2 ha
- 749 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 17,121 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbride, from 366 m² to 262,039 m² (26.2 ha, 64.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Kilbride 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
6 Feb 2026N/a
a dwelling house with services, new site entrance and laneway to proposed dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660027
28 Jul 2025N/a
the construction of a new two storey dwelling, new entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works at
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560215
13 May 2021Conditional
Removal of existing chimney & bay window, alterations to existing fenestration, new render finish to house and garage, construction of new bay window and canopy to front, single storey extension to rear, new canopy between house and garage, and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21176
3 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission for construction of a single storey / part storey and a half dwelling with detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 20435
25 Nov 2020N/a
Construction of a single storey / part storey and a half dwelling with detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 20421
11 May 2020Conditional
(1) Permission for retention of gable ended roof as constructed in place of hipped roof as previously granted under PL Reg. No. 98/443 and (2) permission to construct extensions to side of existing dwelling with minor alterations to accommodate same and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20144
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
- CW017-007 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Appears as a tree-ring on the 1839 'OS 6-inch' map. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011
- CW017-008 Designed landscape feature
Description
Appears as a small enclosed feature on the 1839 OS 6-inch map. Field boundary now runs across site and only a slight rise visible. Probably a landscape feature associated with Kilbride House. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011
- CW017-009 Church
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 O'Toole (JKAS 1933, 258) records tradition of old church ruins formerly on 'Bleach Green' of Kilbride estate, though no remains survived at that time.
- CW017-063 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. Identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère and Simon Dowling. A roughly oval enclosure (diam. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SW) visible as the cropmark of a fosse, with an outer fosse 8-10m from the inner fosse. See attached image: CW017-063----_01 Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 September 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilbride.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilbride.
- 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 Kilbride with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilbride · Cill Bhríde
- Area
- 3,032,072 m² (303.21 ha, 749.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride electoral division: 458 people in 164 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintemple, Boggan, Drummin, Kilgraney, Knockdoorish, Sherwoodpark
- Placenames
- Kilbride 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.