Grangeford

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangeford, from 8 m² to 242,362 m² (24.24 ha, 59.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Grangeford 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.

• 19 Jan 2026Conditional

  Provision of covered loading area in place of permitted floorspace in storage of raw materials building. Planning permission is sought to complete the development of the covered loading area. The overall size of the raw materials building has been reduced to c. 1000 sq.m; Reduction in height of previously permitted extension to office/ packing building by 3.4m and elevational changes; Amended layout and design to previously permitted office and an increase in floorspace of c. 11.4 sq.m. There will be an increase over the permitted building height of 0.84m. Increase in size of previously permitted storage of finished product/ packaging building of c. 21 sq.m. There will be a reduction in building height of 2.5m; Elevational changes to previously permitted barrel/ IBC storage building; Reduction in size of previously permitted extension to the processing shed of c. 113 sq.m, internal reconfiguration and associated elevational changes. Provision of a weighbridge; Provision of a bund adjacent to the prefill building; Relocation of 1 no. previously permitted sliding gate; Installation of 1 no. additional sliding gate; Provision of 8 no. carparking spaces including 5 no. EV spaces; Amendments to permitted hard and soft landscaping areas and additional landscaping, including for extended concrete yard area. Elevational changes to the packing, airlock, and storage of raw materials buildings; 2 no. sliding gates that were previously permitted as opening gates (1 in a relocated position).

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660046

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  Application to extend the appropriate period of planning register reference 17/813 for a development as follows: the proposed scheme seeks the retention of storage tanks / containers/ plant, office / packing / lab / airlock and bucket store buildings, hardcore yards / access road, concrete yards, landscaping works, concrete wall / palisade fencing, light stands, installation of a waste water treatment system and change of use from agriculture to storage area for food manufacturing and access road. Permission is sought for an extension to the existing processing building to comprise of prefill, packing, airlock, office and raw materials storage buildings, an extension to the existing office / packing building to provide additional packing space, an extension to the existing processing shed to provide a storage shed, a finished product storage building and a barrel / IBC storage building; concrete yards, gantry walkways, 5 No. car parking spaces, associated landscaping works including palisade fencing and crash barrier and all site development works above and below ground. It is also proposed to provide for a separate vehicular entrance to Bolton Biofuels Ltd., and install a wetland area to the south of the site to treat surface water runoff. The application site is c. 2.2 hectares

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 23836

• 13 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission and retention permission for development at existing premises, the proposed scheme seeks the retention of storage tanks / containers/ plant, office / packing / lab / airlock and bucket store buildings, hardcore yards / access road, concrete yards, landscaping works, concrete wall / palisade fencing, light stands, installation of a waste water treatment system and change of use from agriculture to storage area for food manufacturing and access road. Permission is sought for an extension to the existing processing building to comprise of prefill, packing, airlock, office and raw materials storage buildings, an extension to the existing office / packing building to provide additional packing space, an extension to the existing processing shed to provide a storage shed, a finished product storage building and a barrel / IBC storage building; concrete yards, gantry walkways, 5 No. car parking spaces, associated landscaping works including palisade fencing and crash barrier and all site development works above and below ground. It is also proposed to provide for a separate vehicular entrance to Bolton Biofuels Ltd., and install a wetland area to the south of the site to treat surface water runoff. The application site is c. 2.2 hectares.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17813

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  (A) Repair of existing 421m2 disused stock shed and construction of new 239.5 m2 extension to include stock shed, feed barriers and 268 m3 slatted underground effluent storage tank and associated ancillary works, (B) repair of existing 480 m2 disused stock shed and construction of new 135.5 m2 extension to include stock shed, feed barriers and 268 m3 slatted underground effluent storage tank and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17367

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD038-038 Moated site
  Description

  Shown as a rectangular enclosure on the 1837 OS 6-inch map and as sub-rectangular enclosure on 1909 edition (max dims. c. 50m E-W x c. 40m N-S). Destroyed c. 1950. Now visible as low mound. Possibly a moated site. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grangeford.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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_2605 (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.

No address of the register names Grangeford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Grangeford · Áth na Gráinsí

Area

503,578 m² (50.36 ha, 124.44 acres)

Civil parish

Killelan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Carrigeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrigeen electoral division: 644 people in 235 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bolton, Hobartstown East, Marshalstown, Roscolvin, Sheriffhill

Placenames

Grangeford 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.