Griffinrath

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Griffinrath, from 1,801 m² to 1,063,500 m² (106.35 ha, 262.8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Griffinrath 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.

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  for a two storey house, septic tank and percolation area, combined recessed entrance and all associated siteworks. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of : New effluent treatment system and polishing filter to replace the proposed septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561117

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  for a two storey house, septic tank and percolation area, combined recessed entrance and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561118

• 2 Sept 2021Conditional

  application for a 10 year permission for development on lands in the townland of Griffinrath, Celbridge. The development will consist of the construction of a solar PV farm with an operational life of 35 years comprising approximately 75,984 No. photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 44.21 hectares and associated ancillary development including 10 No. transformer stations, approximately 124 No. string-inverters, 1 No. onsite 38kV substation building, 1 No. 40ft storage container building, 7 No. CCTV security cameras mounted on 4 metre high poles and perimeter security fencing (2 metres high), the construction of an internal hardcore access road between the solar panels and the site access, localised improvements to an existing agricultural access from the adjoining L5065 road to facilitate construction and operational phase access and, the installation of a 38kV underground electricity cable from the onsite 38kV substation to the 110kV Griffinrath substation ca. 0.75km to the southeast. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of an Aviation Glint and Glare Assessment Report, an Archaeological Report ; an amended Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment; a Traffic Report; drawings of cable locations and trench reinstatement and road closures and road diversion routes; a Stage 1/2 Road Safety Audit; updated drawings of the existing and proposed entrance and the proposed compound and temporary set down area; and a risk assessment of the hazards associated with a fire in or near the solar arrays.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211256

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  the renovation of an existing house, to raise the eave level, provide new wastewater treatment system and all necessary ancillary site works on my land, Previous permission 05/2283, all at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21280

• 26 Feb 2021N/a

  the renovation of an existing house, to raise the eave level, provide new wastewater treatment system and all necessary ancillary site works on my land. Previous permission 05/2283,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21233

• 12 Feb 2021N/a

  for the renovation of an existing house, to raise the eave level, provide new wastewater treatment system and all necessary ancillary site works on my land

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21167

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  the construction of a 36 metre high, free standing lattice type communication structure, carrying antennae and dishes, enclosed with an existing 2.4 metre high palisade compound

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 171171

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Griffinrath.

Recorded monuments

• KD011-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In open, gently undulating, mixed tillage and pasture with a second rath (KD011-008----) c. 60m to the N. An oval area (int. diams. 34m N-S; 30m E-W) is defined by an overgrown, inner earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m), a fosse (Wth 5m) and a second, partially overgrown, outer earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.1m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) at NW, and the interior rises gently towards the SE. Visible with overgrown enclosing elements on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-010 Mound
  Description

  At the top of a gentle, E-facing pasture slope. This fairly high mound (max H 3.5m at E; min H 1.4m at W) has a circular base (diam. 16.5m) and a very small, oval, upper surface (diams. 1.5m E-W; 0.7m N-S). It is composed mainly of earth but some stone is visible near the top. A level berm (Wth 2.2m) occurs half-way up the side of the monument between N and E. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-020 Moated site
  Description

  James, Earl of Kildare commissioned a series of estate maps from John Rocque and on his 1757 map of Griffinrath townland Rocque shows a 'moat field' containing a rectangular enclosure (Briggs and Haworth 1978, 113). The monument is also recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a small, tree-covered, rectangular enclosure. It lies on level pasture at the N foot of a low ridge, from where the ground falls gently away towards a small, N-flowing stream c. 100m to the E. A small rectangular area (int. dims. L 18.1m N-S; Wth 16.9m) is defined by a shallow, waterlogged fosse (Wth 1.7m along S-3.2m along N; D 0.1-0.3m), and has a level, featureless interior. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on a GSI aerial photograph (N 468-7) as a group of small rectangular enclosures, possibly the remains of a field system. Located mid-way along a long, gentle, SW-facing slope in freshly planted tillage. No obviously visible surface traces survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-064 Moated site
  Description

  Roughly square-shaped earthwork, possibly a moated site visible in on aerial photograph (LS_AS_67BWN_00076_03) taken by Leo Swan. On this aerial photograph the upstanding monument is situated close to an ESB pole in a field with post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation ridges. Levelled monument not visible today on Bing Maps aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 March 2016

• KD011-065 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 48m) with possible entrance gap at SSE and annexe to NW visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the enclosure based on information supplied by Colin Flynn Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Colin Flynn Date of upload: 01 March 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_2866 (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 Griffinrath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Griffinrath · Ráth Ghrífín

Area

1,917,875 m² (191.79 ha, 473.92 acres)

Civil parish

Laraghbryan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Maynooth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Maynooth electoral division: 18,729 people in 6,110 households; 65% 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

Ballygoran, Ballymakealy Upper, Corbally, Crippaun, Killeenlea, Kilwoghan, Moneycooly, Oldtown, Toolestown

Placenames

Griffinrath 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.