Kildoon
Kildoon is a townland in the civil parish of Nurney, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 164.9 ha
- 408 acres
- Land parcels
- 110
- registered freehold, median 4,037 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildoon, from 15 m² to 210,608 m² (21.06 ha, 52.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kildoon 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jun 2026Conditional
single storey type dwelling, septic tank with percolation area and secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660693
18 Aug 2025Refused
for a detached two storey dwelling, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560940
9 Jun 2025Conditional
for extension & alterations to existing dwelling, new domestic garage, closing of existing vehicle entrance and provision of new recessed entrance, decommissioning of existing septic tank and replacement with new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560638
24 May 2021Conditional
the construction of a single storey bungalow, secondary effluent treatment system, access via Kildoon Wood and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21711
2 Oct 2020N/a
to import non- hazardous soil and stone to lands at Kildoon, Nurney, Co. Kildare. It is intended to raise the levels of land of area 0.89 hectares by circa 1.50m, construct a new recessed entrance, close up existing field entrance & all associated site works,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201141
13 Sept 2019Conditional
Single storey rear extension to existing single storey dwelling and all associated site development works.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 191021
28 Jun 2019Conditional
Alterations and extensions to the existing house including: a single storey extension on the east side, a dormer extension on the front (south) and rear (north) sides, alterations to existing windows and doors and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19740
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 Mar 2019Conditional
alterations to plans and elevations previously granted under planning ref. no. 17/1009, including the addition of a new extension to rear of existing dwelling, change of window design on ground floor front elevation, change of window sizes on first floor side elevation and all ancillary site works.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 19322
14 Jun 2018Refused
to construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling and domestic garage with the installation of a treatment system and associated polishing filter. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance and to erect site boundaries together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 18703
8 Jun 2018Conditional
A) Permission to amend existing site boundaries of planning file ref 06/1969 (Ross Howard) to allow the site to be sub-divided to allow the construction of a detached dormer bungalow, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works for Daragh Howard B) Permission to install a new re-located secondary effluent treatment system to replace an existing secondary effluent treatment system for Ross Howard to accommodate the proposed development and C) Permission to use the existing entrance as a combined recessed entrance to the existing and the proposed house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18686
6 Dec 2017N/a
to construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling and domestic garage with the installation of a treatment and associated polishing filter. Permission is also sought to construct anew site entrance and to erect site boundaries together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171378
6 Sept 2017Conditional
(a) Restoration works to existing cottage to include new slated roof, all windows will be restored and retained; (b) New single storey and storey and a half domestic extensions to side and rear of existing cottage linked to existing cottage by flat roof structure; (c) Domestic garage; (d) Effluent treatment plant, site access and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171009
1 Sept 2017N/a
(a) To amend existing site boundaries of Planning File Ref. 06/1969 (Ross Howard) to allow the site to be sub-divided to allow the construction of a detached dormer bungalow, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works for Daragh Howard. (b) Permission to install a new relocated secondary effluent treatment system to replace and existing secondary effluent treatment system for Ross Howard to accommodate the proposed development; and (c) Permission to use the existing entrance as a combined recessed entrance to the existing and the proposed house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17997
30 Aug 2017Conditional
the construction of a 1 & 1/2 storey dwelling, detached garage, foul water to a septic tank and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17987
15 Jun 2017N/a
To construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling and domestic garage with the installation of a treatment system and associated polishing filter. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance and to erect boundaries together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17700
12 Apr 2017Refused
extensions and alterations to existing cottage to include: (a) New slated roof, remedial works to all external walls where required, new window and door opes, increase in wallplate height and associated restoration works; (b) New single storey and storey and a half domestic extensions to side and rear of existing cottage; (c) Effluent treatment plant, site access and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17405
12 Apr 2017Conditional
the construction of a split level dwelling, detached garage, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17406
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- KD027-031 Enclosure
Description
On a very slight N-facing pasture slope. A circular area (diam. 33m) is defined by a vegetation band SW-W-N, probably marking the line of an infilled fosse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2012
- KD027-035 Enclosure
Description
On a narrow, steep-sided esker, portions of which have been quarried away to the E, W and S. According to Dowling (1935-45, 454), ‘On a high esker which has been almost completely excavated by sand diggers a Dun or Fort formerly existed …’. The upper surface of the esker has also been partially quarried and no recognisable surface trace of a monument survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kildoon.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kildoon, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2502 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Kildoon, Nurney7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Kildoon
- Area
- 1,649,450 m² (164.95 ha, 407.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Nurney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Nurney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,196 people lived in 361 households in the Nurney electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balkinstown, Blackditch, Bushypark, Coolyphullagh, Ironhills, Nurney Demesne, Nurneybog
- Placenames
- Kildoon 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.