Fodeens
Townland in the civil parish of Kill, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 97.6 ha
- 241 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 112,424 m² (11.24 ha, 27.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fodeens, from 2,812 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) to 566,380 m² (56.64 ha, 139.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Fodeens 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
14 Aug 2025Conditional
for change of house design from that previously granted under planning permission reg. ref. 24/60770, and for all associated site works revisions
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560928
31 Jul 2025Refused
for (A) Retention of existing 3754 square meters of the hard standing area consisting of a mix of concrete, blacktop and gravel and permission for upgrading of the same hard standing area for the parking of up to twenty trucks and trailers as per this application, (B) Retention of use of same hard standing area for use of parking of up to twenty trucks and trailers, (C) The retention of 898 square meters of existing buildings, (D) The retention of use for these same buildings at C above for use for overnight parking of trucks and trailers and the storage of dry spare parts, components and towing equipment necessary for the trucks and trailers, (E) Retention of the use of a drive which serves the home of the directors of Kill Haulage as a means of access to the public road from the hard standing areas and buildings, the subject of this application, (F) All ancillary works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 25131
7 Aug 2024Conditional
for a single storey dwelling serviced with an onsite waste water treatment system to current EPA guidelines, with equine facilities comprising of; a farm building (containing 4 stables, a tack & wash room, a feed room & barn storage), to be serviced with a dung stead & effluent holding tank complete with yard area & sand arena all to the rear of the above dwelling where the dwelling & equine facilities will be accessed via a singular recessed entrance, and for all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460770
24 Mar 2022Conditional
of a garage (26.3m²) to the north of the house and a storage shed/workshop (112.4m²) to the north-west of the house
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22323
9 Mar 2022N/a
a garage (26.3m2) to the north of the house and a storage shed/workshop (112.4m2) to the north-west of the house
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22257
26 Aug 2020Conditional
amend the design of the approved development (Kildare County Council Planning Reg. Ref.17684 & An Bord Pleanála Reg. Ref. PL09.249155) which comprises planning permission for the development of a solar photovoltaic panel array consisting of the following; up to an area of 92,400 m² of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames within a site area of 31.24 hectares; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 no. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment; 10 no. inverter/transformer units; underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works, the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for construction and operational purposes. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years. Amendments proposed are: Optimised Solar PV panel configuration located within the same areas of the site as previously permitted with the exception of an increased buffer distance under existing 38kV overhead electricity line from 14m to 34m; an increase in the solar panel area from the permitted up to 92,400 m² of solar panels to up to 157,000 sq.m of solar panels and; increase in height of solar panel array from the permitted up to 2.8m to up to 3.2m. Modifications and enlargement to the permitted on-site substation building and substation compound. The substation building will increase in size from c. 80 sqm as permitted to c. 150 sqm with an increase in height from c. 5.8m as permitted to c. 6.0m and the substation compound will increase in size from c. 700 sqm as permitted, to c.1081 sqm; Permission is also sought to amend the operational lifespan of the consented development from 25 years to 30 years
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20969
10 Dec 2019Conditional
to construct: (1) A water storage tank 14.70m in diameter and 2.30m in height; (2) A storage container with area of 15sqm for associated plant and all associated siteworks. Revised by significant further information consisting of; revised site layout including proposal to provide a new site entrance approx. 192m southwest of existing entrance and 2 no. existing entrances to be closed
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191370
12 Jun 2017Refused
a solar photovoltaic panel array consisting of the following; up to an area of 92,400m2 of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames within a site area of 31.24 hectares; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 no. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment; 10 no. inverter / transformer units; underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works, the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for construction and operational purposes. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years. The site is located within the townlands of
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17684
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 Fodeens.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fodeens.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fodeens.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2906 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fodeens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Fodeens
- Area
- 976,486 m² (97.65 ha, 241.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt South
- Electoral division
- Kill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kill electoral division: 5,565 people in 1,843 households; 82% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Furryhill, Kilteel Lower, Kilwarden, Porterstown, Rathgorragh, Thornberry
- Placenames
- Fodeens 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.