Gragadder
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcock, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare; in Irish Gráig Ghodard
- Area
- 71.3 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 2,378 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gragadder, from 593 m² to 138,221 m² (13.82 ha, 34.16 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 Gragadder 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
9 Mar 2023Conditional
(a) The removal of condition number 1 regarding the demolition of the existing old cottage, planning file Ref. 04/2688; (b) Demolition of porch on side elevation (south elevation) of existing cottage; (c) Window added to front elevation (west elevation) of existing cottage and other minor external alterations; (d) Amendments to internal layout of existing cottage; (e) Construction of an extension to the side elevation (south elevation) of existing cottage; (f) Construction of an extension to the rear elevation (east elevation) of existing cottage; (g) Construction of a garage for domestic use; (h) Installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area; (i) Construction of a new recessed vehicular access and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23237
11 Nov 2022Conditional
construction of a single-storey extension to rear of existing established crash repair centre and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221351
20 May 2022Conditional
(a) Retention permission for shed for agricultural use; (b) Retention permission for a concrete yard; (c) Retention permission for vehicular entrance and access drive way and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22604
28 Feb 2022Conditional
a garden shed and two storage sheds built to the side and rear of the existing garage for domestic use and a fuel storage shed for domestic use
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22212
8 Feb 2022N/a
a garden shed and two storage sheds built to the side and rear of the existing garage for domestic use and a fuel storage shed for domestic use
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22126
18 Jan 2017Conditional
retaining minor alterations to house as constructed, detached garage as constructed and revised site boundaries as granted under planning file ref. no. 91/949. Retention planning permission is also sought for: (a) sunroom to rear (b) boiler house (c) fuel store and all ancillary site works
Retention, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 1732
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 Gragadder.
Recorded monuments
- KD005-004 House - 17th century
Description
Shown as a 'Farmhouse' on Noble and Keenan's 1752 map of County Kildare but marked as 'Castle Ruins' on Taylor's 1783 map of the county. A building possibly representing the monument is indicated but not named on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. In open pasture. When inspected in 1985 the site was found to be occupied by a modern dwelling house (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gragadder.
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 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_2753 (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 Gragadder with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Gragadder · Gráig Ghodard
- Area
- 712,890 m² (71.29 ha, 176.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Kilcock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcock electoral division: 8,896 people in 2,853 households; 69% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Branganstown, Laragh, Maws, Roestown
- Placenames
- Gragadder 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.