Killadoon
Townland in the civil parish of Killadoon, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare; in Irish Cill an Dúin
- Area
- 182 ha
- 450 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 94,407 m² (9.44 ha, 23.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killadoon, from 111 m² to 1,243,505 m² (124.35 ha, 307.28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killadoon 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
21 Oct 2025N/a
for temporary ten year permission for the following works: a) The construction of a demountable film/tv studio building (12m high and 1713 sqm), b) the temporary installation of 5 no portable single storey office and ancillary buildings, including w.cs and showers ( 52sqm, 87sqm, 122sqm, 79sqm, 70sqm), c) surface water attenuation basin and raingarden, interceptor traps and underground foul and fresh-water holding tanks, d) internal compacted gravel roads, e) “I-trac” heavy duty loading bay , f) 46 no (including 3no accessible) car-parking spaces, on “Grass-crete” permeable, removeable surface, g) 68 no bicycle spaces with Sheffield stands. All using existing vehicular entrance at north-west boundary of Killadoon Farm off N403, and with bicycle and pedestrian access at east gate of farm off Killadoon Lane
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561189
22 Aug 2025N/a
for a temporary ten-year permission, within a Protected Structure, a) The construction of a demountable film/tv studio building (12m high and 1713 sqm) b) the temporary installation of 5 no portable single storey office and ancillary buildings, including w.cs and showers ( 52sqm, 87sqm, 122sqm, 79sqm, 70sqm), c ) surface water attenuation basin and raingarden, interceptor traps and underground foul and fresh-water holding tanks, d) internal compacted gravel roads, e) “I-trac” heavy duty loading bay , f) 46 no (including 3no accessible) car-parking spaces, on “Grass-crete” permeable, removeable surface; g) 68 no bicycle spaces with Sheffield stands. All using existing vehicular entrance at north-west boundary of Killadoon Farm off N403 , and with bicycle and pedestrian access at east gate of farm off Killadoon Lane
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560957
7 Jul 2025Refused
for a) retention permission for existing recessed entrance as constructed with permission to amend entrance to combined family shared entrance. b) permission for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560752
20 Feb 2025Conditional
to construct an extension. The extension will consist of: A. Moving the front door to the side of the building; B. Construction of a new Kitchen, Living, dining Room, to the side of the existing building; C. Moving the third bedroom to a new upstairs extension to the rear; D. Including all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560163
16 Feb 2025N/a
for the extension of: a. Moving the front door to the side of the building; b. Construction of a new Kitchen, Living, Dining Room, to the side of the existing building; c. Moving the third bedroom to a new upstairs extension to the rear d. Including all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560143
1 Feb 2025N/a
the extension will consist of: a. Moving the front door to the side of the building; b. Construction of a new Kitchen, Living, dining Room, to the side of the existing building; c. Moving the third bedroom to a new upstairs extension to the rear d. Including all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560084
28 Jan 2025Refused
for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560064
20 Jan 2025N/a
for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560034
14 Dec 2024N/a
for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461343
30 Nov 2024N/a
for the construction of a single storey bungalows with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461274
3 Nov 2024Refused
for a 360m² dwelling house, 83m² garage, access laneway and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system, associated percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461157
27 Oct 2024N/a
for a 360m² dwelling house, 83m² garage, access lane-way and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system, associated percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461125
11 Sept 2024Conditional
for a solar farm development with an operational lifespan of 40 years comprising the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows on a site of circa 47.44 hectares, a single storey onsite 38kV substation with compound, with two number single storey storage containers, 25 number invertor stations, ducting and underground electrical cabling, perimeter fencing, 23 number mounted CCTV cameras, provision of a new access from the L5066 / Killadoon Road, provision of internal access tracks, and all associated site development and landscaping works
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 24291
5 Aug 2024Refused
for the construction of a family cluster of two single storey bungalows with single storey domestic garages and secondary effluent treatment systems, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2460751
24 Jul 2023Conditional
The development will consist of revisions to a permitted 38kV electrical substation and compound previously permitted as part of a solar farm permission by An Bord Pleanála under Ref. ABP-303636-19 (Kildare County Council Planning Ref. 18/250). The proposed revisions comprise design alterations to the substation building comprising a modest increase in size and addition of pitched roof; enlargement of compound area with associated revisions to electrical plant and apparatus, security fencing, underground cabling, wastewater holding tank and associated ancillary works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360062
14 Jul 2023Conditional
the extension of the operational lifespan of the permitted solar pv development by An Bord Pleanála under Ref. ABP-303636-19 (Kildare County Council Planning Ref. 18/250) from 25 no. years as permitted (by reason of condition no. 3 of permission Ref. ABP-303636-19) to 40 years
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360037
14 Jul 2023N/a
The development will consist of revisions to a permitted 38kV electrical substation and compound previously permitted as part of a solar farm permission by An Bord Pleanála under Ref. ABP-303636-19 (Kildare County Council Planning Ref. 18/250). The proposed revisions comprise design alterations to the substation building comprising a modest increase in size and addition of pitched roof; enlargement of compound area with associated revisions to electrical plant and apparatus, security fencing, underground cabling, wastewater holding tank and associated ancillary works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360042
22 Dec 2020Refused
a 360sqm 5-bedroom dwelling house, garage, access laneway and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system, associated percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201603
8 Jan 2019Conditional
(i) Construction of a milking parlour with associated dairy and livestock handling facilities to include underground slatted tank, silage pit and concrete lagoon; (ii) Erection of external milk tank, meal bins and water storage tank; (iii) Construction of a new private well; (iv) Widening of existing vehicular entrance via Ardrass Road; and, (v) All ancillary works, including site clearance works, necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Revised by Significant Further Information consisting of; (i) construction of milking parlour (676sqm) with associated livestock wintering facility (1,909sqm), handling facilities, underground slatted tank, silage pit and concrete lagoon; (ii) erection of external milk tank, meal bins and water storage tank; (iii) construction of a new private well; (iv) construction of an internal access road; and (v) all ancillary works, including site clearance works necessary to facilitate the proposed development. The site is located at Ardrass Upper & Killadoon and within the curtilage of Killadoon House, stone walls and Demesne, which are protected structures (RPS Ref: BH11-07). No works are proposed that would directly affect these structures. Revised redline site boundary to include for use of an existing vehicular entrance onto the R403 at Killadoon with provision of internal gravel laneway to access the proposed development (the proposed laneway and entrance onto Ardrass Road no longer forms part of the proposal).
Permission · Kildare County Council, 198
12 Mar 2018Conditional
a 10 year permission (to construct development) for a solar farm comprising: the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows on a site of C.47.44 hectares, a single storey onsite 38kV substation with compound, with 2 no single storey storage containers, 25 no. invertor stations , ducting & underground electrical cabling, perimeter fencing, 23.no mounted CCTV Cameras, provision of a new access from the L5066/Killadoon Road, provision of internal access tracks, and all associated site development and landscaping works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18250
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killadoon.
Recorded monuments
- KD011-006 Church
Description
It was recorded by the OSL (Herity 2002, 13) that the graveyard of Killadoon (KD011-006002-) contained, ' … some (remaining) portions of the walls of the (old) Church'. OMURETHI (1909-11, 209) records, 'About the year 1294 the churches of Kyledonane (Killadoon … ) … and "Tristyldelane" (KD014-016---) … are reported to be not worth the service of chaplains'. The remains lie to the N of the centre of a graveyard (KD011-006001-). A rectangular depression (int. dims. L 8m E-W; Wth 3.4m; D 0.3-0.6m) is further defined along its E and W ends by sod and ivy-covered stony spreads (Wth along E 6.3m; int H 0.3m; ext H 0.4m; Wth along W 4m; int H 0.9m; ext. H 0.2m) which are the remains of collapsed walling. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD011-006001 Graveyard
Description
On level ground at the S end of a long avenue on the landscaped Killadoon Demesne. An L-shaped area (dims. L 38m NNE-SSW; Wth along N 31m; Wth along S 16m) is defined by a low mortared stone wall, except along the S where it ends at outbuildings which are part of the courtyard immediately N of Killadoon House. The interior is higher than the surrounding ground (av. H 1m) and is totally overgrown with ivy, ash, holly, laurel and briar. The earliest legible headstone is dated 1816. The foundations of a ruined church (KD0111-006----) lie just N of centre. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD011-073 Enclosure
Description
In grassland on the demesne lands of Killadoon House located 850m to NE. Faint cropmark of possible enclosure (diam. c. 38m) visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. Linear ditches to the south and east may or may not be associated with the enclosure. Cropmarks of a woodland plantation boundary depicted on 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map visible to the W. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Donal Lucey Date of upload: 3 November 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killadoon.
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
- 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_2868 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killadoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Killadoon · Cill an Dúin
- Area
- 1,820,421 m² (182.04 ha, 449.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killadoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Salt North
- Electoral division
- Celbridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Celbridge electoral division: 16,066 people in 5,350 households; 79% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardrass Lower, Ardrass Upper, Ballymakealy Lower, Ballymakealy Upper, Celbridge Abbey, Friarstown, Killeenlea, Newtown, Reeves
- Placenames
- Killadoon 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.