Bolton

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bolton, from 17 m² to 742,627 m² (74.26 ha, 183.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bolton 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.

• 20 Jan 2022Conditional

  to construct (i) loose straw shed with slatted tank (ii) slatted feeding area (iii) Walled silage slab and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2248

• 15 Jul 2020Conditional

  to erect a storey and a half dwelling house, garage, corcoran effluent treatment system, raised percolation area, splayed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20753

• 14 Dec 2017Conditional

  a change of name from Tom and Monica O’Connor to Michael O'Connor on previously granted planning permission reference 16/138 to construct a single storey dwelling house at location of existing ruin of farmhouse, also septic tank, percolation area, a domestic garage and all necessary and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171418

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  (A) Repair of existing 421m2 disused stock shed and construction of new 239.5 m2 extension to include stock shed, feed barriers and 268 m3 slatted underground effluent storage tank and associated ancillary works, (B) repair of existing 480 m2 disused stock shed and construction of new 135.5 m2 extension to include stock shed, feed barriers and 268 m3 slatted underground effluent storage tank and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17367

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 Bolton.

Recorded monuments

• KD038-019001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  A fifteenth century tower house, rectangular in plan with a square projecting turret at the SE corner. The original entrance was in the W wall. There are three floors over a barrel vault, with access to upper floors and to the wall walks by a mural stairs in W wall. There is a garderobe in the SE corner of the first floor, and crenelated battlements on the roof. The tower house is now incorporated into an eighteenth century double-gabled house. The columbarium (KD038-019002-) with a barrel vault and a later pigeon loft immediately to to the S of the tower house is probably a modified bawn turret.

• KD038-019002 Dovecote
  Description

  A fifteenth century tower house (KD038-019001-), rectangular in plan with a square projecting turret at the SE corner. the tower house is now incorporated into an eighteenth century double-gabled house. The columbarium with a barrel vault and a later pigeon loft immediately to the S of the tower house is probably a modified bawn turret. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-051 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (GSI S134, 135, 176, 177) as a cropmark enclosing a circular area (est. max diam. c. 55m). Probably a ringfort site. Date of upload: 16 September 2016

• KD038-060 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Spread of shattered stones (diam. c. 8m) uncovered during work on the gas pipeline corridor. Destroyed before excavation, but recorded as a possible fulacht fia. No further information (Cleary et al. 1987, 5). Date of upload: 16 September 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_2605 (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.

No address of the register names Bolton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Bolton · Bóltan

Area

1,780,902 m² (178.09 ha, 440.07 acres)

Civil parish

Killelan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Carrigeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrigeen electoral division: 644 people in 235 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belan, Grangeford, Hobartstown East, Hobartstown West, Moone, Newtown, Sheriffhill, Simonstown West

Placenames

Bolton 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.