Castlekeely
Castlekeely is a townland in the civil parish of Brideschurch, barony of Clane, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Caisleán Uí Chaollaí.
- Area
- 265.5 ha
- 656 acres
- Land parcels
- 175
- registered freehold, median 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
175 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlekeely, from 41 m² to 136,309 m² (13.63 ha, 33.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castlekeely 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
5 Mar 2025Conditional
for amendments to planning permission 82/1605 as follows: (a) As constructed attic for domestic storage area at 1 st floor level to existing house. (b)Window at front elevation and Window at side elevation both at 1 st floor level. (c)Relocation of garage on site and all associated site development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560215
25 Sept 2024Refused
for alterations of the permitted ridge height of the permitted garage/fuel store and elevational amendments to the fenestration all of the existing garage/fuel store. Permission for the change-of-use (including relevant internal modifications) of the existing garage/fuel store to a family flat, the construction of an extension connecting the existing house to the family flat, the construction of a new vehicular entrance to the property parallel to the existing entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2460946
19 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct a 3 bedroom bungalow and a waste water treatment system plus all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 24264
15 Aug 2024N/a
for to construct a 3 bedroom bungalow and a waste water treatment system plus all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 24260
2 Nov 2022Refused
bungalow, garage, wastewater treatment system and form a double recessed residential/agricultural entrance
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221305
4 Jul 2022Refused
sought for a two bedroomed bungalow, a foul water treatment system and associated works on my site
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22809
27 Jan 2022Refused
to build a bungalow, garage, waste water treatment system, and form a double recessed residential/agricultural entrance to my site
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2276
1 Nov 2021Refused
to build a bungalow, garage, waste water treatment system, and form a double recessed residential/agricultural entrance to my site
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211560
13 Jul 2021Refused
to build a two storey house, garage, waste water treatment system, and form a double recessed residential/agricultural entrance
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211030
1 Apr 2021Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling with integrated garage, the provision of a new vehicular access to front of site (including associated works to achieve sightlines), the provision of a new mechanical waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21428
18 Jan 2021Conditional
to relocate the entrance to my property and to replace existing ditch with timber post and rail fencing and approved hedgerow. The proposed entrance will be in keeping with Council's recommended single recessed entrance detail number E3639-1
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2134
26 May 2020Conditional
(a) Erection of a single storey type house to front and storey and a half type house to rear; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) Installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (d) New vehicular entrance and driveway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20520
25 Mar 2020Conditional
for the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and soak-pit with the installation of a new waste water treatment plant on site (0.778ha) to cater for the needs of the existing dwelling including all associated site works and services
Retention · Kildare County Council, 20309
4 Nov 2019Refused
(A)erection of a single storey type house to front and storey and a half type house to the rear (B) garage/fuel store for domestic use (C) installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (D) new vehicular entrance and driveway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191232
18 Oct 2019N/a
(a) Change of house type from that previously granted under planning file Ref. No. 06/949 and 11/1147 from a dormer type house, to a single storey type house to front and storey and a half type house to rear and revised garage plans with amended house and garage position on the proposed site. (b) Installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (c) New vehicular entrance and driveway and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191156
20 Sept 2019Refused
a proposed bungalow, a detached garage, a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, a new entrance, the upgrading of the existing access road, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191049
9 Aug 2019Refused
(A)Erection of part one and a half storey, part single storey type dwelling (B) Erection of garage/fuel store for domestic use (C) Installation of proprietary waste water treatment system with a raised tertiary treatment filter and all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19906
3 May 2019Conditional
for an existing domestic shed
Retention · Kildare County Council, 19490
24 Apr 2019Conditional
The development will consist of (A) The construction of a single storey dwelling with a floor area of 169.4sqm; (B) A single storey domestic garage and store with a floor area of 39.6sqm. to be used for domestic purposes only; (C) The provision of a new approved on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area; (D) Alterations to the existing vehicular entrance which presently serves the adjacent dwelling so as to provide a shared entrance which will serve this existing house and the proposed dwelling.;(E) All associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19446
17 Apr 2019N/a
of an existing domestic shed
Retention · Kildare County Council, 19420
8 Mar 2019Refused
dormer bungalow, detached garage, a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19229
2 Nov 2018Refused
(a) The construction of a single storey dwelling with a floor area of 169.4 sqm; (b) a single storey domestic garage and store with a floor area of 39.6 sqm. to be used for domestic purposes only. (c) the provision of a new approved on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area. (d) the provision of a new recessed vehicular entrance and (e) all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181330
6 Apr 2018Conditional
a) proposed new two storey dwelling. b) new vehicle entrance c) domestic double garage, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18383
26 May 2017Conditional
for (a) Bungalow, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17612
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlekeely.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castlekeely.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlekeely.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Castlekeely, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2723 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Castlekeely with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Castlekeely · Caisleán Uí Chaollaí
- Area
- 2,654,911 m² (265.49 ha, 656.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brideschurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clane
- Electoral division
- Carragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,854 people lived in 563 households in the Carragh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysize, Carragh, Donore, Gingerstown, Halverstown, Osberstown, Waterstown
- Placenames
- Castlekeely 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.