# Ardkill, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ardkill, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,538,689 m² (253.87 ha, 627.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ardkill, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ardkill.md
- Barony: Carbury
- Electoral division: Carbury, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,345 people lived in 780 households in the Carbury electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25490
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80019
- Centre: latitude 53.364083, longitude -6.941004 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardkill, from 70 m² to 839,969 m² (84 ha, 207.56 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1027056: 839,969 m² (84 ha, 207.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027056.md
- Parcel 2676291: 476,875 m² (47.69 ha, 117.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676291.md
- Parcel 1056987: 369,646 m² (36.96 ha, 91.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056987.md
- Parcel 2943209: 254,282 m² (25.43 ha, 62.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2943209.md
- Parcel 5115384: 218,921 m² (21.89 ha, 54.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5115384.md
- Parcel 5061410: 14,392 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5061410.md
- Parcel 5061433: 14,317 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5061433.md
- Parcel 1046210: 8,998 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1046210.md
- Parcel 4934974: 8,803 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934974.md
- Parcel 4927203: 8,186 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927203.md
- Parcel 4927201: 7,694 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927201.md
- Parcel 2599952: 7,449 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2599952.md
- Parcel 5284375: 5,314 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5284375.md
- Parcel 1018404: 5,111 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018404.md
- Parcel 4934979: 4,743 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934979.md
- Parcel 2650333: 3,923 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650333.md
- Parcel 1072559: 3,535 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072559.md
- Parcel 2650354: 3,299 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650354.md
- Parcel 1038780: 3,109 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038780.md
- Parcel 1031423: 2,697 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031423.md
- Parcel 1067777: 2,696 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1067777.md
- Parcel 4521462: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4521462.md
- Parcel 1089697: 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089697.md
- Parcel 5616390: 2,367 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5616390.md
- Parcel 3218526: 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3218526.md
- Parcel 1057867: 2,266 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057867.md
- Parcel 1057945: 2,105 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057945.md
- Parcel 4676039: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4676039.md
- Parcel 5063321: 1,891 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063321.md
- Parcel 1065997: 1,576 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065997.md
- Parcel 1064952: 1,465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1064952.md
- Parcel 1053538: 1,345 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053538.md
- Parcel 1078250: 1,247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078250.md
- Parcel 1071054: 1,217 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1071054.md
- Parcel 1044560: 1,065 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1044560.md
- Parcel 5070418: 495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5070418.md
- Parcel 4906739: 367 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4906739.md
- Parcel 4927598: 349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927598.md
- Parcel 4906735: 324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4906735.md
- Parcel 4920627: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4920627.md
- Parcel 4928136: 84 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928136.md
- Parcel 5061441: 74 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5061441.md
- Parcel 4902755: 70 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4902755.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ardkill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 3 Dec 2018, Kildare County Council 181448: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Erection of a single storey dwelling, a garage /fuel store for domestic use and the installation of an effluent treatment system along with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181448/0
- 14 Sept 2018, Kildare County Council 181130: Conditional. Permission. (a) Erection of a single storey extension to the south-east elevation of the existing vernacular type single storey house and (b) the decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new proprietary waste- water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181130/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Natural Heritage Area: Carbury Bog NHA, site code 001388, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001388

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KD008-008001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-008001-. On a very gentle S-facing pasture slope, overlooking a possible deserted medieval settlement site (KD008-008002-), with a medieval church (KD008-009----) and graveyard (KD008-009002-) some 350m away from the castle, to the SSE. Only the E-angle of a very poorly preserved, two-storied structure survives and comprises the SE wall (L 7m; wall T 1.22m) and a very short length of the NE wall (L 1.5m), together with a small rectangular corner tower (dims. L 2.65m E-W; Wth 2m) which projects SE from the SW end of the SE wall and which may be a later addition. There is a slight base-batter on the SE wall, but not on the corner tower. The walls are built of randomly coursed limestone blocks facing a rubble core of very angular, small stones in a dense mortar which contains numerous pebble, gravel and slate inclusions. Traces of a heavy, concrete-like render survive in patches. An irregular ope (Wth 1.8m) to E of centre in the SE wall is probably the remains of a robbed-out doorway. The inner faces of both walls carry the scar-lines of a robbed-out vault which was orientated NE-SW and covered the ground floor, and which may have carried a loft under it's arch. The corner tower contains a chimney flue in the SE wall, the base of which is robbed-out at ground-floor level, but which rises into first-floor level to run behind a second flue whose base flares out to NE and SW to accommodate a robbed-out fireplace. The flues contain some red brick. Traces of a probable bawn (KD008-008003-) are visible immediately to the SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-008002: Settlement deserted - medieval, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-008002-. On a very gentle S-facing pasture slope, between a tower house (KD008-008001-) and bawn (KD008-008003-) to the NNW and a medieval church (KD008-009001-) and graveyard (KD008-009002-) to the SSE. A large rectangular area (dims. L c. 250m NNW-SSE; Wth c. 100m) is partly subdivided by five, parallel, rectangular terraces (dims. av. L c. 100m ENE-WSW; av. Wth c. 25m) separated by low scarps (H 0.3-0.6m), and was originally accessed to W of centre by a broad sunken trackway (designated KD008-008004-) running N from the church and graveyard (av. Wth 11m; D 0.5m; traceable L c. 100m). Parallel and c. 40m to the E, a second, shorter and much narrower sunken trackway (designated KD008-008005-) also runs N from the church and graveyard (Wth 2m; D 0.5m; traceable L 10m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-008003: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-008003-. Immediately SE of a tower house (KD008-008001-). A very poorly preserved rectangular area (dims. L 35m NW-SE; Wth 27m) is defined by a low grassed-over stony bank (Wth 2-3m; H 0.2-0.4m) along the NE, SE and SW, and by the tower house along part of its NW side. Along the SE there are traces of an outer, shallow fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m) which runs off to the NE, beyond the site limits. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-008004: Road - hollow-way, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-008004-. On a very gentle S-facing pasture slope, between a tower house (KD008-008001-) and bawn (KD008-008003-) to the NNW and a medieval church (KD008-009001-) and graveyard (KD008-009002-) to the SSE. A possible deserted medieval settlement (KD008-008003-) was accessed from the S by a broad sunken trackway (designated KD008-008004-) running N from the church and graveyard (av. Wth 11m; D 0.5m; traceable L c. 100m). Parallel and c. 40m to the E, a second, shorter and much narrower sunken trackway (designated KD008-008005-) also runs N from the church and graveyard (Wth 2m; D 0.5m; traceable L 10m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-008005: Road - hollow-way, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-008005-. On a very gentle S-facing pasture slope, between a tower house (KD008-008001-) and bawn (KD008-008003-) to the NNW and a medieval church (KD008-009001-) and graveyard (KD008-009002-) to the SSE. A possible deserted medieval settlement (KD008-008003-) was accessed from the S by a broad sunken trackway (designated KD008-008004-) running N from the church and graveyard (av. Wth 11m; D 0.5m; traceable L c. 100m). Parallel and c. 40m to the E, a second, shorter and much narrower sunken trackway (designated KD008-008005-) also runs N from the church and graveyard (Wth 2m; D 0.5m; traceable L 10m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-009001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-009001-. The church stands to the SW of centre in a graveyard (KD008-009002-), on the site of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD008-009003-). A poorly preserved, ivy-clad, rectangular structure (int. dims. L 16m E-W; Wth 6m) is comprised of E and W gable walls built of randomly coursed limestone blocks (wall T 0.9m), with the E gable wall supported externally by bonded buttresses. The N wall is reduced to a grassed-over stony spread (Wth 2m; int H 0.4m; ext H 0.9m), and only a short, low section of the E end of the S wall survives (L 4.8m; H 1m). The W gable wall contains a rubble-built, round-headed window. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-009002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-009002-. At the S-foot of a long, gentle pasture slope with a deserted medieval settlement site (KD008-008002-) immediately to the N and a tower house (KD008-008001-) and bawn (KD008-008003-) beyond, c. 350m to the NNW of the graveyard. A roughly rectangular area (dims. L c. 70m N-S; Wth c. 55m) is enclosed by a low, mortared stone wall with an entrance gate at the SW corner. A ruined church (KD008-009001-) and a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD008-009003-) lie to SW of centre. Burials are concentrated to the S of the church, with the earliest legible grave markers dating from the 18th century, and the graveyard is still in use. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-009003: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-009003-. To the SW of centre in a graveyard (KD008-009002-). A slightly raised, oval area (int. diams. 30m E-W; 20m N-S) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.6-1.4m) and may be the remains of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. A later, medieval church (KD008-009001-) stands in the N sector. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-017: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-017----. In level, poor, rushy pasture c. 150m SE of a medieval church (KD008-009001-) and graveyard (KD008-009002-). A D-shaped area (diam. 26m NE-SW), with a straight NE side (L 65m) appears to be the W-half of an originally circular or oval enclosure. It is defined by a low grass covered, earthen bank (Wth 5.1m; H 0.4m) from S to NW, but by a modern field bank along it's straight NE side. There is no obvious visible surface trace of the E-half of the monument. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD008-044: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD008-044----. Small circular-shaped earthwork located in field 130m W of Ardkill Church (KD008-009001-) and graveyard (KD008-009002-). Cropmark of small circular area (approx. diam. 10) defined by a fosse the outline of which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. The small size and form of the monument may suggest that this is the site of a small ditch barrow. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Chris Corlett Date of upload: 22 February 2018

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Post box, 1881–1901, Regional interest, registry number 11900810, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD&regno=11900810. Pier-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, extant 1908, with "VR [Victoria Regina]" royal cipher. Set in rendered pier.
- The Sweep, house, 1700–1837, Regional interest, registry number 11900811, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD&regno=11900811. Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey off-central windbreak. Renovated, ----. Hipped oat straw thatch roof, rope twist ridge with paired exposed stretchers having exposed scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Road fronted on a corner site.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ardkill, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Ardkill.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ardkill.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ardkill.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ardkill.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ardkill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carbury: https://everytownland.com/kildare/carbury.md
- Collinstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/collinstown-80355.md
- Coonagh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coonagh.md
- Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/demesne.md
- Knockcor: https://everytownland.com/kildare/knockcor.md
- Mylerstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/mylerstown-80912.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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