Ironhills

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ironhills, from 320 m² to 512,663 m² (51.27 ha, 126.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Ironhills 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.

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  alterations to bungalow & garage as granted permission under Pl Ref 18 536, the alterations include 1) the relocation of dwelling and garage within the site, alterations to bungalow to form a dormer bungalow, ancillary alterations to dwelling plan & elevations & 2) change of use of detached garage to home office, playroom & gym, ancillary alterations to plan & elevations and all ancillary site works 3) proposed single recessed vehicular entrance & all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561394

• 25 Apr 2025Refused

  for an agricultural type shed along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560434

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  for 1) Retention of existing detached single storey stable block as constructed, 2) Retention of existing agricultural shed for storage of farm machinery as constructed, 3) Retention of existing 4 bedroom dormer dwelling with permission to convert this building to a building to be used as a home gym, home office, domestic storage and music room all ancillary to the main house as constructed, 4) Retention of existing detached dormer bungalow as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460154

• 14 Feb 2024N/a

  for to construct 1) A single storey dwelling. 2) A septic tank and percolation area. 3) A vehicular entrance. 4) All ancillary site works in association with the above

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460111

• 7 Dec 2023N/a

  For retention of the following structures as constructed: 1) single story stable block, 2) agricultural shed, 3) home office and recreational rooms building ancillary to main house, 4) existing detached dormer bungalow as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360461

• 9 Jan 2023Conditional

  the construction of a detached dormer dwelling, detached single storey garage with home office, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works. (This application is to replace that granted to the applicant under pl. ref. 20/322)

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2314

• 6 Dec 2022N/a

  change of use from domestic garage to kitchen/living room at ground floor and dormer area to one bedroom and walk in wardrobe, also retention of a single storey extension to the side, comprising of 2 bedrooms and a bathroom, all to form a 3-bedroom dwelling, also retention of 2 No. agricultural sheds to the rear of above and permission for a foul water treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221446

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  to construct: (1) A single storey dwelling. (2) A septic tank and percolation area. (3) A vehicular entrance. (4) All ancillary site works in association with the above. These works are to be carried out on my site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22515

• 12 Jan 2022Conditional

  for the re-construction of fire-damaged vernacular single storey cottage with permission for a single storey side and rear extension, installation of secondary effluent treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2217

• 22 Dec 2021N/a

  for the re-construction of fire-damaged vernacular single storey cottage with permission for a single storey side and rear extension, installation of secondary effluent treatment system, recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211815

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  a bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20980

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a bungalow, domestic garage, recessed entrance and an Oakstown waste water treatment system, pumped to an Ecoflow coco filter tertiary treatment system, with all facilitating and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20322

• 3 Sept 2019Refused

  to construct a bungalow, domestic garage, recessed entrance and an Oakstown waste water treatment system, pumped to an Ecoflow coco filter tertiary treatment system, with all facilitating and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19990

• 21 Jun 2019Conditional

  a one and half storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, recessed vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19705

• 12 Jun 2019N/a

  a one and half storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19665

• 27 May 2019Refused

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19588

• 26 Mar 2019Refused

  to construct a bungalow, domestic garage, recessed entrance and an oakstown waste water treatment system, pumped to an ecoflo coco filter tertiary treatment system with all facilitating and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19314

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  construct a bungalow, domestic garage, also a BAF waste water treatment plant with tertiary treatment in a sand filter percolation area, with all associated and facilitating site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18536

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 Ironhills.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ironhills.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_2543 (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 Ironhills with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ironhills · Cnoc an Iarainn

Area

2,917,826 m² (291.78 ha, 721.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrush, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilrush electoral division: 698 people in 228 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohergoy Lower, Bushypark, Eaglehill, Kildoon, Maddenstown South, Nurneybog

Placenames

Ironhills 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.