Kilkea Upper

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkea Upper, from 126 m² to 1,085,999 m² (108.6 ha, 268.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Upper 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 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III for 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on an overall site of c. 129.8 hectares consisting of the following: c. 496,308 sq m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 19 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks with passing bays; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L8084, L8087, L4009 and L4012 public roads; 1no. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) location associated with the underground cable route; a total of 4 no. solar farm site entrances (1 no. from the L8084 public road, 1 no. from the L8091 public road, and 2 no. from the L4012 public road); access gates; 4 no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; 48no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Containers and 12no. associated MV Stations as well as associated CCTV, BESS Compound fencing, gate, boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660958

• 26 Feb 2026Conditional

  alterations and refurbishment of an existing single storey vernacular cottage with a half-dormer attic; a proposed single storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling; a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Closing the existing access and opening a new one

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660203

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  development at Kilkea House a Protected Structure RPS No. B37-16. The development will consist of the removal of an existing porch and its replacement with a new porch on the same foundations

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21826

• 13 May 2021N/a

  development at Kilkea House, a Protected Structure RPS No. B37-16. The development will consist of the removal of an existing porch and its replacement with a new porch on the same foundations

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21659

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  a single storey extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling, internal alterations and relocation of main entry door from front to side, new waste treatment system, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171345

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD037-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 7) shows a cropmark of a fosse defining approximately circular area (est. max diam. c. 45m). Three small field systems in immediate vicinity (KD037-035----, KD037-036---- and KD037-037----). These features are also visible on a later (1989) aerial photo (GB89.AG.16). Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD037-035 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 7) shows cropmark of small field system defined by fosses. Two other small field sytems (KD037-036---- and KD037-037----) and a circular enclosure (KD037-034----) occur in the immediate vicinity. There features are also visible on a later (1989) aerial photo (GB89.AG.16). Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD037-036 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 7) shows cropmark of small field system defined by fosses. Two other small field systems (KD037-035---- and KD037-037----) and a circular enclosure (KD037-034----) occur in the immediate vicinity. There features are also visible on a later (1989) aerial photo (GB89.AG.16). Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD037-037001 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP AVM 7) shows the cropmarks of a small field system, possibly connected with a church (KD037-037002-) and Children's burial ground (KD037-037003-) described by Fitzgerald (1906-08, 120-1) as being located in this area. Two other small field systems (KD037-035---- and KD037-036----) and a circular enclosure (KD037-034----) occur in the immediate vicinity. These features are also visible on a later (1989) aerial photo. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD037-037002 Church
  Description

  Fitzgerald records a Children's burial ground (KD037-037003-) and chapel (KD037-037002-), described an 'an oblong building ... in the middle of the field ... No headstones exist and the place is only used for the interment of unbaptised or stillborn children' (1906-8, 120-1). According to Barrett, 'aerial photograph (GB89.AG.16) shows an oblong positive cropmark that coincides with hachuring on the OS-6inch 1909 map and locates the site of the church'. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD037-037003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Fitzgerald records a Children's burial ground (KD037-037003-) and chapel (KD037-037002-), described an 'an oblong building ... in the middle of the field ... No headstones exist and the place is only used for the interment of unbaptised or stillborn children' (1906-8, 120-1). According to Barrett, 'aerial photograph (GB89.AG.16) shows an oblong positive cropmark that coincides with hachuring on the OS-6inch 1909 map and locates the site of the church'. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD037-038001 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on an aerial photograph (GB89.AG.20) as a cropmark of a complex curvilinear enclosure with an associated rectilinear field system to the NW (KD037-038002). The enclosure is defined by two widely spaced fosses, with an entrance facing W. A further trapezoidal enclosure (KD037-038003-) defined by a broad fosse appears superimposed on the original enclosure at the S. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 October 2013

• KD037-038002 Field system
  Description

  An aerial photograph (GB89.AG.20) shows cropmarks of a complex curvilinear enclosure (KD037-038001-) with an associated rectilinear field system to the NW. The curvilinear enclosure is defined by two widely spaced fosses, with an entrance facing W. A further trapezoidal enclosure (KD037-038003-) defined by a broad fosse appears superimposed on the original enclosure at the S. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 October 2013

• KD037-038003 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on an aerial photograph (GB95.FS.29) as a cropmark of a broad fosse which appears superimposed on an earlier enclosure to the N (KD037-038001-). This is probably the oval enclosure shown on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (surveyed 1837). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 October 2013

• KD037-039 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Shown on OS 1909 6' sheet as an approximately triangular remnant of an enclosure (dims. c. 40 x 30 x 40), with hachures indicating a fosse at the NE side. No visible surface trace. Probably a ringfort site. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD037-070 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BT.25) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse and located at the western end of a larger oval enclosure which is also defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD037-097 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 25/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 28 May 2019

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone built former estate worker's cottage with half-dormer attic, c.1820. Now in ruins. Gable-ended roof. Roof now gone. Rubble stone walls. Hammer dressed cut-granite quoins. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Banded granite architraves. Fittings now gone. Cut-granite lintel to door opening. Fittings now gone. Set back from road perpendicular to road. Overgrown grounds to site.

• Kilkea House, farm house, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over basement farmhouse, built 1837, on an L-shaped plan; single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey lower return (west). Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered, ruled and lined central chimney stacks on rendered bases having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes; pitched slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stack (west) having capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron octagonal hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls with rendered flush strips to corners. Central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (basement) with concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows behind wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings (west) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

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

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

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

Name

Kilkea Upper · Cill Chá Uachtarach

Area

2,057,156 m² (205.72 ha, 508.33 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

Beaconstown, Castleroe East, Castleroe West, Coolane, Hallahoise, Kilkea Demesne, Kilkea Lodge Farm, Mullaghreelan

Placenames

Kilkea Upper 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.