Grangeclare East
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeage, barony of Connell, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 112 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,945 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangeclare East, from 108 m² to 281,008 m² (28.1 ha, 69.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 62 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 Grangeclare East 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
6 Jul 2026Refused
the construction of a one and a half story dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660753
27 Oct 2025Refused
construction of a one and a half storey dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561223
2 Dec 2024Refused
for the construction of a dormer style two story dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461283
29 Nov 2024N/a
for the construction of a dormer style two story dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461269
17 Sept 2024Conditional
for already constructed Sunroom to the side elevation and 3 Bay windows to the front elevation of existing dwelling
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460922
17 May 2024N/a
the removal of vegetation and overlying soils and subsoils; The extraction of up to 4,000,000 tonnes of sand and gravel on a phased basis from an area of approximately 8.3 hectares to a final floor level at 98.00 metre above Ordnance Datum (aOD); The infilling of the lands using inert materials/ waste on a phased basis, following the extraction of sand and gravel; The restoration of the lands back to original ground level for agricultural use; All related ancillary development and associated site works including provision of landscaped screening berms and all other related activities. The development is within an overall application area of 11.09 hectares. Permission is being sought for a total period of 20 years; the sand and gravel extraction operational period is for 20 years. A licence application will be made to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for relevant activities. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared and submitted in respect of this planning application. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of revised plans and revisions to the EIAR.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460437
3 Feb 2023Refused
single storey dwelling, site entrance, connection to mains sewer and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23103
5 Oct 2020Refused
deforestation of part of my lands comprising of 16.53 hectares of mixed broadleaf forest for conversion to agricultural land,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201152
25 Sept 2020N/a
deforestation of part of my lands comprising 16.53 hectares of mixed broadleaf forest for conversion to agricultural land
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201102
6 Jul 2017Conditional
(a) Erection of a two storey type house; (b) Erection of single storey therapy treatment room with waiting room/reception and toilet with integral garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with percolation area; (d) Upgrading of the existing access roadway and constructed a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; new/revised vehicular access way and gateway,
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17782
1 Mar 2017Conditional
for existing attic conversion from storage space to habitable space with Velux roof lights added to the front and rear elevations. New works to accommodate two new bedrooms, study, bathroom and hot press
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17216
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 Grangeclare East.
Recorded monuments
- KD018-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the SE end of pasture ridge with a steep fall immediately outside the monument E-S. Described in 1986 as a small, raised, roughly circular area (diam 36m) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m) and a very broad, V-shaped, outer fosse (Wth 10m) with an entrance on the W side (SMR file). Visible on a 2005 aerial photo (OSi Orthophoto). 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 Grangeclare East.
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 10 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_2566 (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 Grangeclare East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Grangeclare East
- Area
- 1,120,208 m² (112.02 ha, 276.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeage, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connell
- Electoral division
- Kilmeage South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeage South electoral division: 2,224 people in 743 households; 72% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolaght, Grangeclare West, Kilmeage, Kilmeage Little, Littletown, Lowtown, Robertstown East, Robertstown West
- Placenames
- Grangeclare East 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.