Inch

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inch, from 137 m² to 467,049 m² (46.7 ha, 115.41 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 Inch 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.

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house with attached Carport, domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, connection to public watermain, new splayed entrance and all associated ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660198

• 18 Jul 2024Conditional

  for A) Demolition of existing single storey garage / store also pump house and outside toilet. B)Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dormer dwelling to provide a bedroom, bathroom and a living /dining and kitchen area, C) Removal of existing septic tank and construction of new septic tank and percolation area, D) Retention and modification of existing attic conversion to incorporate new access stairs and bedroom layout, along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460684

• 16 Jul 2024N/a

  for A) Demolition of existing single storey garage/ store also pump house and outside toilet, B) Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dormer dwelling to provide a bedroom, bathroom and a living /dining and kitchen area, C) Removal of existing septic tank and construction of new septic tank and percolation area, D) Retention and modification of existing attic conversion to incorporate new access stairs and bedroom layout, along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460673

• 5 Jul 2024N/a

  for the following. A) Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dormer dwelling to provide a bedroom, bathroom and a living /dining and kitchen area, B) Retention and modification of existing attic conversion to incorporate new access stairs and bedroom layout, along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460621

• 27 Sept 2019Conditional

  new single storey with part two storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, recessed residential entrance and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191070

• 15 Jan 2018Conditional

  a single storey extension to side of existing two storey dwelling and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1836

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 Inch.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-026 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On level ground towards the SW end of an extensive farmyard. According to Killanin and Duignan (1967, 78), the castle was built by the De Vesci family in the 13th-century, and was enlarged by the 6th Earl of Kildare in 1420. However, no visible surface trace of a 13th-century structure survives. The Ballad of Oonah More is associated with the castle (Fitzsymons 1906, 101-6). The very poorly preserved NW-half of a three-storied rectangular structure survives (8.5m NE-SW; traceable 3.9m NW-SW) and comprises the full NW sidewall together with short lengths of the NE (L 3.9m) and SW (L 2.7m) gable walls: the SE end of the castle is levelled, with a lot of collapsed stone lying inside the surviving remains. According to Fitzgerald (1896-9, 158), ‘… during the wet season at the commencement of this year [1896], the eastern corner of Inch Castle … collapsed, destroying the original entrance, with its internal “murder-hole”, a large portion of the staircase built in the thickness of the wall, besides the chambers overhead.’ The SE-half of the castle collapsed in 1984 (SMR file). The upstanding walls (av. T 1.5m) are built of rubble masonry and are not battered. At ground floor-level, the surviving portion of the NE wall contains an intra-mural stairs with a small chamber underneath. The NW wall contains a wide fireplace arch and the end of the SW wall contains the side of an embrasure. Joist holes in the NW wall indicate first floor-level which has a spiral stairs in the N angle, a garderobe chamber with a loop in the W angle and a single light window in the NW wall and a partially robbed out bartizan on the W-angle. A vault springs from the NW wall to roof this level. A similar floor-plan is repeated above, at second floor-level. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 6 January 2014

• KD035-027 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On the crest of a gentle E-facing pasture slope. According to Fitzsymons (1906, 104), ‘This moat, according to the present version of the story, was thrown up over the spot where the two bodies in the plague-shed were consumed. The hawthorns of the ballad are still growing upon it’. The ballad referred to is the Ballad of Oonah More and is associated with Inch Castle (KD035-026----) some 250m to the NW. A low sub-circular earthen mound (surface diams. 5.2m E-W; 4.3m N-S; H 0.7-1m) is enclosed by a shallow fosse NW-NE and SE-SW (D 0.1m; base Wth 2m; ext diam. N-S 14.8m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 December 2013

• KD035-115 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid). A circular area (est. diam. c. 40m) is defined by the cropmark of a back-filled fosse which is overlain by a later field boundary at SW. From NW clockwise to E, further cropmarks radiate off the enclosure and define a concentric sub-rectangular area which may be the remains of an annexe or associated field. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 November 2014

• KD035-120 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Apple Maps as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a sub-circular area (estimated diameter c. 90m), with the cropmark of a second fosse apparently sub-dividing the internal NW quadrant. Further linear cropmarks of fosses radiate off the enclosure to N and S and may be the remains of an associated field system. A later field boundary bisects the enclosure NW-SE. (pers. comm. C. Chambers, 25-06-2015). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 21-12-2015

Architectural heritage

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

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_2505 (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 Inch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Inch · An Inse

Area

2,339,002 m² (233.9 ha, 577.98 acres)

Civil parish

Moone, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Burtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burtown electoral division: 421 people in 157 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardscull, Ballycullane, Burtown Big, Forest, Foxhill, Turnerstown

Placenames

Inch 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.