# Donode Big, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Coghlanstown, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,521,150 m² (152.12 ha, 375.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,684 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Coghlanstown, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/coghlanstown.md - Barony: Naas South - Electoral division: Killashee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 431 people lived in 131 households in the Killashee electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25900 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80486 - Centre: latitude 53.155573, longitude -6.638282 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donode Big, from 457 m² to 314,810 m² (31.48 ha, 77.79 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2638602: 314,810 m² (31.48 ha, 77.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2638602.md - Parcel 1030969: 197,035 m² (19.7 ha, 48.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030969.md - Parcel 1030263: 190,335 m² (19.03 ha, 47.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030263.md - Parcel 1030870: 180,841 m² (18.08 ha, 44.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030870.md - Parcel 5941209: 153,643 m² (15.36 ha, 37.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5941209.md - Parcel 1053448: 147,349 m² (14.73 ha, 36.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053448.md - Parcel 1068799: 47,776 m² (4.78 ha, 11.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068799.md - Parcel 1081480: 35,868 m² (3.59 ha, 8.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081480.md - Parcel 5393127: 34,236 m² (3.42 ha, 8.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5393127.md - Parcel 1045005: 32,971 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045005.md - Parcel 4879148: 9,759 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4879148.md - Parcel 5393117: 6,618 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5393117.md - Parcel 1044156: 5,861 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1044156.md - Parcel 2649429: 4,428 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2649429.md - Parcel 1089296: 2,720 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089296.md - Parcel 1089751: 2,648 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089751.md - Parcel 5281956: 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5281956.md - Parcel 1059357: 2,413 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059357.md - Parcel 1078065: 2,403 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078065.md - Parcel 1057353: 2,374 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057353.md - Parcel 1017010: 2,231 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1017010.md - Parcel 1020085: 2,222 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1020085.md - Parcel 1054052: 2,100 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054052.md - Parcel 1042537: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042537.md - Parcel 1013125: 1,926 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013125.md - Parcel 1040774: 1,813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040774.md - Parcel 1022599: 1,809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022599.md - Parcel 1058748: 1,787 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058748.md - Parcel 1080894: 1,222 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080894.md - Parcel 1020639: 457 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1020639.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Donode Big 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 23 Oct 2025, Kildare County Council 2561207: Conditional. Retention. 1. To retain floor slab & complete 2 no. stables and 2. to retain & complete storage shed with all ancillary site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: 1. to construct a Dungstead and soiled water tank behind the proposed stables and 2. To construct and increase the existing entrance with a bound surface finish. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561207/0 - 2 Feb 2024, Kildare County Council 2460079: Refused. Permission. for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 128.66 hectares comprising of electrical and inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the application. The export capacity to the grid is estimated be c. 105MW MEC. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the addition of a temporary construction access which has been included within the red and blue line boundaries. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460079/0 - 27 Jan 2024, Kildare County Council 2460049: N/a. Permission. for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 128.66 hectares comprising of electrical and inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460049/0 - 22 Dec 2023, Kildare County Council 2360539: N/a. Permission. for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 128.66 hectares comprising of electrical and inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, temporary construction compounds, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360539/0 - 3 Apr 2020, Kildare County Council 20352: Conditional. Retention. sought for a 31sqm single storey extension as constructed to the rear of our existing dwelling and all associated ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20352/0 - 29 Aug 2017, Kildare County Council 17978: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. change house plans / design from that previously granted under PPRR 10/1156 & extended under PPRR 16/202 and associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17978/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Donode Big. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD024-026: Castle - motte and bailey, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD024-026----. A Recorded Historical Monument (HMO 3473). At the SSW end of an extensively quarried N-S ridge. According to Tickell (1960, 368 (Fn. 9), Sir Roland FitzEustace, who died in 1486, possessed, inter alia, a castle at Donode. The site of the castle is now called ‘the moat, a rath some 70 feet high’. A natural hillock appears to have been scarped into an oval shaped area (c. 100m E-W; c. 70m N-S) and the base enclosed by a substantial counter-scarp bank (H. 4.5m) and internal fosse. The interior was divided slightly unequally by deep N-S fosse (Wth. 2m, D. 3.2m), with a tall, steep-sided motte to the W (H. of motte over base of fosse c. 11.5m; upper surface c. 23m N-S; c. 20m E-W), and a lower, slightly smaller bailey to the E (upper surface 19m E-W; 17m N-S). The summit of the motte is very uneven and appears to have been partially dug out. The bailey’s defences are augmented by a fosse and outer bank girdling the upper surface N-E-S. The monument is eroded along the S by a combination of soil creep and animal grazing, and a pit containing charcoal and burnt and unburnt bone is visible in an eroded area on the N face of the bailey, possibly a habitation layer. (CUCAP AHK 25 (1963); APH 94 (1966)) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 June 2012 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Donode Big. ## 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 Donode Big, 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 Donode Big. - 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/donode-big.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donode-big.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donode-big.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Donode Big 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) - Coghlanstown West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coghlanstown-west.md - Donode Little: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donode-little.md - Dowdenstown Great: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dowdenstown-great.md - Flemingtown South or Tonaphuca: https://everytownland.com/kildare/flemingtown-south-or-tonaphuca.md - Sillagh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/sillagh.md - Swordlestown South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/swordlestown-south.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/donode-big - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/donode-big