# Grangeford, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killelan, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare; in Irish Áth na Gráinsí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 503,578 m² (50.36 ha, 124.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,203 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killelan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/killelan.md - Barony: Kilkea and Moone - Electoral division: Carrigeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24989 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80606 - Centre: latitude 52.943015, longitude -6.822597 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangeford, from 8 m² to 242,362 m² (24.24 ha, 59.89 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1018512: 242,362 m² (24.24 ha, 59.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018512.md - Parcel 1084574: 46,970 m² (4.7 ha, 11.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084574.md - Parcel 1031299: 46,936 m² (4.69 ha, 11.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031299.md - Parcel 5068848: 46,261 m² (4.63 ha, 11.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5068848.md - Parcel 5354994: 41,619 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5354994.md - Parcel 5068840: 35,960 m² (3.6 ha, 8.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5068840.md - Parcel 1038962: 15,757 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038962.md - Parcel 2675422: 11,483 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2675422.md - Parcel 5220475: 5,082 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5220475.md - Parcel 1068056: 2,723 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068056.md - Parcel 1025976: 2,393 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025976.md - Parcel 5220474: 2,014 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5220474.md - Parcel 1027600: 1,988 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027600.md - Parcel 4903853: 1,765 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903853.md - Parcel 5131509: 439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131509.md - Parcel 5552242: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5552242.md - Parcel 4997213: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4997213.md - Parcel 5552251: 283 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5552251.md - Parcel 5067994: 226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5067994.md - Parcel 5220491: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5220491.md - Parcel 4903836: 28 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903836.md - Parcel 5353256: 8 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353256.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 19 Jan 2026, Kildare County Council 2660046: Conditional. Permission. 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).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660046/0 - 8 Aug 2023, Kildare County Council 23836: Conditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23836/0 - 13 Jul 2017, Kildare County Council 17813: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17813/0 - 5 Apr 2017, Kildare County Council 17367: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17367/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD038-038: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD038-038----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grangeford. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2605.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/grangeford.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/grangeford.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/grangeford.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Grangeford 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) - Bolton: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bolton.md - Hobartstown East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/hobartstown-east.md - Marshalstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/marshalstown.md - Roscolvin: https://everytownland.com/kildare/roscolvin.md - Sheriffhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/sheriffhill.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/grangeford - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/grangeford