# Fodeens, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kill, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 976,486 m² (97.65 ha, 241.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 112,424 m² (11.24 ha, 27.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kill, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/kill.md - Barony: Salt South - Electoral division: Kill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 5,565 people lived in 1,843 households in the Kill electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 3% 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/25885 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80540 - Centre: latitude 53.238008, longitude -6.549648 (WGS 84) ## 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); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1090603: 566,380 m² (56.64 ha, 139.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090603.md - Parcel 1027140: 179,390 m² (17.94 ha, 44.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027140.md - Parcel 2945104: 140,586 m² (14.06 ha, 34.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2945104.md - Parcel 5478575: 84,261 m² (8.43 ha, 20.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5478575.md - Parcel 1021538: 3,044 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021538.md - Parcel 1023820: 2,812 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023820.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 14 Aug 2025, Kildare County Council 2560928: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for change of house design from that previously granted under planning permission reg. ref. 24/60770, and for all associated site works revisions. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560928/0 - 31 Jul 2025, Kildare County Council 25131: Refused. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/25131/0 - 7 Aug 2024, Kildare County Council 2460770: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460770/0 - 24 Mar 2022, Kildare County Council 22323: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22323/0 - 9 Mar 2022, Kildare County Council 22257: N/a. Retention. a garage (26.3m2) to the north of the house and a storage shed/workshop (112.4m2) to the north-west of the house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22257/0 - 26 Aug 2020, Kildare County Council 20969: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20969/0 - 10 Dec 2019, Kildare County Council 191370: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191370/0 - 12 Jun 2017, Kildare County Council 17684: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17684/0 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 Fodeens. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fodeens. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fodeens. ## 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 Fodeens, about 1 in 20 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2906, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2906.zip (ZIP). - 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/fodeens.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/fodeens.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/fodeens.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Furryhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/furryhill.md - Kilteel Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kilteel-lower.md - Kilwarden: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kilwarden.md - Porterstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/porterstown.md - Rathgorragh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathgorragh.md - Thornberry: https://everytownland.com/kildare/thornberry.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/fodeens - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/fodeens