Kilkea Lower

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkea Lower, from 6,339 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres) to 795,998 m² (79.6 ha, 196.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Kilkea Lower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilkea Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Kilkea Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD037-014 Mound
  Description

  Small earthen mound (diam. 11m; H. 2m). Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 27) shows cropmarks of drains, fields and possible trackways in an area to the S and W of the monument. Situated on a low ridge. Described in 1955 as having traces of a fosse (Danaher 1955, no. 302). Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD037-015 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 1) shows two small circular areas defined by cropmarks of fosse (est. max diams c. 20m). Probably ringbarrows or ringditches. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD037-021 Church
  Description

  An undated note added to an OS 6-inch map in the National Library (NLI. MS 16H 34(23)), indicates the 'site of Vilero church'. Fitzgerald mentions a chapel called 'Kilcro' in this townland (FitzGerald 1906-8, 120-1). No visible surface trace. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-011 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP AYL 63, BGN 29) show a cropmark of small circular area defined by the cropmark of a fosse (est. max diam. c. 25m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-012 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 29) shows a cropmark of two concentric ditches enclosing a small circular area (est. max diam. c. 20m). Probably a multiple ring-barrow or ring-ditch. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilkea Lower.

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 Kilkea Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Kilkea Lower · Cill Chá Íochtarach

Area

1,464,224 m² (146.42 ha, 361.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkea, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Kilkea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkea electoral division: 441 people in 143 households; 89% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamony, Ballyvass, Belan, Grangerosnolvan Upper, Kilkea Demesne, Kilkea Lodge Farm, Mullaghreelan

Placenames

Kilkea Lower 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.