Goulyduff
Townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Ghuala Dhubh
- Area
- 151 ha
- 373 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 3,328 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goulyduff, from 98 m² to 252,500 m² (25.25 ha, 62.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Goulyduff 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
3 Oct 2025Conditional
For permission to construct a bungalow, new splayed entrance and install a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561128
16 Dec 2022Conditional
the change of the design of an extension to an existing cottage as previously approved by P.A. 20/1094 and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221495
2 Nov 2021Conditional
for alterations to previously granted permission (Ref:09/824) to consist of the alteration of Condition 2 Reg. Ref. 09/824 to change the maximum permissible number of children from 6 to 9
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211564
21 Jan 2021Conditional
dormer bungalow, detached garage, new recessed entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2157
13 Jan 2021N/a
dormer bungalow, detached garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2120
24 Sept 2020Conditional
an extension to the existing cottage to provide additional living accommodation and as includes a new wastewater treatment system and associated site works,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201094
23 Jul 2020N/a
extension and restoration of derelict vernacular cottage to habitable use, including wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20805
20 Jun 2019Refused
dormer bungalow, detached garage, wastewater treatment system & associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19694
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 Goulyduff.
Recorded monuments
- KD034-024 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.17) shows the cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure defined by fosse. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011
- KD034-025 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.17) shows the cropmark of a small curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011
- KD034-026 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.17) shows the cropmark of an enclosure (incomplete) defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011
- KD035-057 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.16) shows the cropmark of a sub-circular enclosure defined by a fosse, with an irregularly subrectangular annexe at N. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Goulyduff.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2320 (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 Goulyduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Goulyduff · An Ghuala Dhubh
- Area
- 1,509,758 m² (150.98 ha, 373.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Churchtown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Electoral division
- Athy Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bennetsbridge, Coolroe, Kilcoo, Kilcrow, Quarry, Ratherrig (Co. Laois), Rosbran (Co. Laois), Rosbran
- Placenames
- Goulyduff 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.