Kilteel Upper

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilteel Upper, from 20 m² to 167,779 m² (16.78 ha, 41.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilteel Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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• 26 Feb 2018Refused

  the construction of a detached, single storey dwelling; the provision of a new shared vehicular entrance (including associated works to achieve sightlines, gates, piers and railings) and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18193

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilteel Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD020-006 Castle - tower house
  Description

  A National Monument (No. 275), standing at the W edge of the Kilteel Early Christian and medieval ecclesiastical complex (KD020-007001- to KD020-007012-), around which the Pale Ditch (KD020-008----) also runs, and associated both with a Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers (KD020-007003-) and the subsequent defence of the Pale. On a narrow terrace near the top of the moderate, SE-facing slope of a minor valley through which a small stream flows SW, and overlooked by slightly higher ground WSW-N-NE. A probable 15th century, rectangular, five-storied, roofed structure (ext. dims. L 8.5m NE-SW; Wth 5.5m; av. wall T 1.05m) comprises four floor levels above a barrel-vaulted (NE-SW axis) basement with a second vault over fourth-floor level. Built of randomly coursed limestone blocks and flags with well-dressed quoins and voussoirs, it has a projecting D-shaped stairs tower (ext. diam. c. 3.2m; int. diam 1.6m) at the SW end of the NW sidewall, and is adjoined at SW by a gatehouse (KD020-006001-). The basement (int. dims. L 6.4m NE-SW; Wth 3.65m) is entered through a probably later doorway in the SW gable wall, and has a low, vaulted ceiling (H 2.1m). Lit by only two loops, with steeply plunging sills, flanking a probably inserted and now robbed-out fireplace in the NE gable wall, the basement contains wall-cupboards in the NW, SE and SW walls, and a small, stone drain near the SW end of the SE wall. A narrow (Wth 0.5m), square-headed doorway immediately to the left (NW) of the main doorway gives access to the spiral stairs in the projecting tower. A loop near ground level looks SW across the adjoining gate arch, and six more loops light the tower; a second near ground level and one at the top look NW, while in between, four loops in a vertical line look WNW. Plain, square-headed doorways give access off the stairs to the upper floors, and, from a cap house on the stairs tower, to wall-walk level. A doorway between first and second-floor levels gives access to the first floor of the adjoining gate house which is also accessed through doorways in the SW gable wall of the main building at second and third-floor levels. Floor levels are indicated by corbels in the NW and SE sidewalls and each floor is lit by plain, rectangular windows in large embrasures in each wall (some with window-seating), those in the NE and SE walls rising in a vertical line, one above the other. There are fireplaces and wall-cupboards on each floor, except the fourth. A former window in the NE gable wall on first-floor level was broken out to form a doorway, possibly to give access to a wall walk of a formerly adjoining bawn (KD020-006002-). The low, stone-slabbed, A-roof, the guttering and the crenelations have been restored and chimney stacks on the NW, NE and SE walls have been lowered and capped below crenelation height. In 2005, an archaeological assessment (Licence No. 05E0681: 'Excavations 2005' 2008, (No. 761) 186) and subsequent monitoring of topsoil removal in 2006 (Licence No. 06E2475, C159: 'Excavations 2006' 2009, (No. 965) 246) at a single-house development c. 80m SW of the monument uncovered some 20 sherds of pottery, 14 of which were medieval in date, including Leinster cooking ware, Dublin-type coarseware and Dublin-type fine ware, with the remainder being post-medieval date in date. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 408; Harbison 1975, 123) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-006001 Gatehouse
  Description

  Part of a National Monument (No. 275), abutting the SW gable wall of a tower house (KD020-006----) on the W side of a possible bawn (KD020-006002-). A three-storied, rectangular structure (ext. dims. L 4.35m NE-SW; Wth 2.55m) comprises a fine, vaulted archway (Wth 2.55m NE-SW) over which a two-storied guard house is roofed by a second vault, with battlements above. It is built of randomly coursed limestone blocks and flags with well-dressed quoins and voussoirs. First-floor level is accessed from the adjoining tower house's spiral stairs via a short flight of steps carried on a small squinch at the junction of the two buildings. This level (int dims. L 3.85m NE-SW; Wth 1.43m) is lit by two loops in opposite walls, looking NW and SE, and has a small garderobe alcove in the SW gable wall. Opposing corbels on the NW and SE walls mark second floor level which was accessed through a doorway from the tower house, and the NW and SE walls each contain a loop. The wall-walk was also accessed from the adjoining tower house. In 2005, an archaeological assessment (Licence No. 05E0681: 'Excavations 2005' 2008, (No. 761) 186) and subsequent monitoring of topsoil removal in 2006 (Licence No. 06E2475, C159: 'Excavations 2006' 2009, (No. 965) 246) at a single-house development c. 80m SW of the monument uncovered some 20 sherds of pottery, 14 of which were medieval date in date, including Leinster cooking ware, Dublin-type coarse ware and Dublin-type fine ware, with the remainder being post-medieval in date. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 408; Harbison 1975, 123) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-006002 Bawn
  Description

  Part of a National Monument (No. 275). A large, sub-rectangular area (dims. max. L c. 60m E-W; max. Wth c. 40m) is defined by a tower house (KD020-006----) and adjoining gatehouse (KD020-006001-) on its W side, off which stone walls run to NE and SW. The walls, although still high in places (H 3m) are thin (T 0.5m) and are not bonded to the tower house and gatehouse, but can be traced for their full course around the enclosed area, which is now used as a farmyard with lean-to buildings built against the enclosing wall along S. While possibly a modern rebuild, the wall may follow the course of an older bawn wall line, the presence of which is strongly suggested by the existence of the gate house and a doorway at first floor-level in the NE gable wall of the tower house possibly to give access to a wall walk on an adjoining bawn wall. In 2005, an archaeological assessment (Licence No. 05E0681: 'Excavations 2005' 2008, (No. 761) 186) and subsequent monitoring of topsoil removal in 2006 (Licence No. 06E2475, C159: 'Excavations 2006' 2009, (No. 965) 246) at a single-house development c. 70m SW of the monument uncovered some 20 sherds of pottery, 14 of which were medieval in date, including Leinster cooking ware, Dublin-type coarse ware and Dublin-type fine ware, with the remainder being post-medieval in date. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007002 Church
  Description

  Standing in a graveyard (KD020-007010-) immediately S of a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers (KD020-007003-) and surrounded by low earthworks (KD020-007004-), some of which are undoubtedly associated with the preceptory, but some may have originated with the Early Christian foundation here. A section of the Pale Boundary (KD020-008----) runs nearby, to the S and W. In 1977 and 1978, prior to its conservation, the ruined church was archaeologically excavated by Manning (1982, 173-229), who believes the place-name Kilteel derives from 'Cell céli críst', a unique, late 7th century name meaning the servant, client, vassal or devotee of Christ. The surviving rectangular structure of nave (int. dims. 10.6m E-W; N-S 4.1m; wall T 0.84-0.9m) and chancel (int. dims. 7.8m E-W; 4.5m N-S; wall T 0.65m) with the decorated piers of a Romanesque chancel arch, was found to have resulted from several building-phases dating from the Early Christian through the Romanesque and high medieval periods to the 17th c. The earliest church was a simple, rectangular, single-cell structure (int. dims. 5.7m E-W; 4.1m N-S) built mainly of roughly coursed and mortared local shale, on a plinth, with granite quoins. It may date to the late 7th/early-8th century, but there are no references to the site before the 12th c. A Romanesque chancel arch, with piers bearing finely carved figures and motifs, was subsequently inserted into the original E gable wall, but no trace of its associated chancel was found. The carved figures include Adam and Eve, David and Goliath and possibly Samson. Later in the medieval period, the nave was extended westwards, with a doorway in the N wall, and a chancel of equal external width to the nave was built; lit by three windows in the S wall, which also contained a piscina, it too had a doorway in the N wall. The alteration involved interference with and rebuilding of the Romanesque chancel arch, and a decorated stone from the arch found rebuilt in the N wall of the extended nave bears a zoanthropomorphic representation, possibly of St. Luke. (Other carved stones from the arch had previously been found reused in modern farm buildings to the NW (Leask 1935, 1-2). The church was in ruins in the 16th century and the interior was used for burial. It was re-roofed for a short period in the later-17th century, at which time doorways in the N walls of the nave and chancel were blocked and a new doorway was broken through the W gable wall. When it subsequently fell into disrepair, the interior was again used for burial. Finds included a granite lintel, with a recessed head, from the W doorway (Wth 0.8m) of the original church, and the probable inner and outer round window heads from the original E window; a building stone bearing a lightly pocked cross within a circle which may originally have been placed above the W doorway; two heel stones, an early grave slab (KD020-007011-), a fragment of a medieval coffin-shaped slab (KD020-007012-), two chevron-ornamented stones and some eight voussoirs from the Romanesque chancel arch, medieval window jambs, small fragments of painted medieval window glass, window-leading, roof slates and ridge tiles chiefly of 13th/14th century and 17th century date, and sherds of glazed and unglazed medieval and post-medieval pottery. (Fitzgerald 1915-17, 275; Leask 1935, 1-8; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 408; Harbison 1975, 123; Manning 1977-78, 73-4; Meagher 1979-80, 117; Weir 1980, 166) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007003 Religious house - Knights Hospitallers
  Description

  A preceptory of Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem was founded sometime before 1212 by Maurice Fitzgerald on the site of 'Cell céli críst' (KD020-007002-) an early monastery (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 334, 338). No foundation charter or original grant of land survives and one of the earliest references to the preceptory is in the Justiciary Rolls of 1308. Three general chapters of the order were held at Kilteel in 1326, 1333 and 1334, and from the 14th century onwards Kilteel held an important position strategically between the Irish in Wicklow and the Anglo-Normans in Kildare and Dublin (Manning 1982, 176-7). On the moderate, SE-facing, pasture slope of a minor valley through which a small stream (now dried up) flowed SW, and overlooked by slightly higher ground WSW-N-NE. The surviving remains are generally very poorly preserved and comprise: A) a large, roughly rectangular, earthen enclosure; B) a ruined building; C) the remains of a gatehouse, and D) the ruins of a possible second gatehouse. A fine tower house (KD020-006----) with attached gatehouse (KD020-006001-) and possible bawn (KD020-006002-), located at the NW corner of the remains, augmented the defences in the 15th century, and presumably influenced the line chosen for the Pale Boundary, portion of which (KD020-008----) runs immediately S and W of the preceptory. Portion of high cross (KD020-007005-) stands on the roadside bordering the remains along the NW. A) Enclosure (IG E 298495 N 221251: ITM E 698424 N 721280 ) A large, poorly preserved enclosure is visible on aerial photographs taken 23/07/1963 (CUCAP AIG064) and 1966 (CUCAP APA056/AP012). On a moderate SE-facing slope. A large, roughly rectangular area (est. dims. L c. 200m NE-SW; Wth c. 150m NW-SE) where, in 2002, limited archaeological excavation in advance of private development (Hagen 2004, 257 (947); Licence no. 02E1467) of a narrow section at the NE corner of the enclosure, found the enclosing elements to comprise a low, broad, inner earthen bank (Wth 5m), a narrow fosse (Wth 1.5m) and a second, low, broad, outer bank (Wth 7m; int. H 0.3m) B) Building (IG E 298495 N 221251: ITM E 698424 N 721280 ) Near the SE foot of the valley slope with a dry stream bed c. 20m to the SE, and within the above enclosure. A very poorly preserved structure comprises the remains of a short S wall (L 7.15m E-W; H 4.5m; wall T 1.6m) and the corner angle of the W end of a parallel N wall (L 2.2m E-W; 2.2m N-S; H 4.5m; wall T 1.5m), built of mortared rubble masonry, both forming the W end of a ruined building (int. Wth. 6.8m N-S). The inner face of the S wall contains the undressed voussoirs of a semi-pointed arched window embrasure (H 2.2m; Wth 2.15m), and traces of the springing of a similar arch survive in the N wall opposite. Both windows, and many facing stones are robbed out. C) Gatehouse (IG E 298567 N 221240: ITM E 698496 N721269) On the level valley floor, only 2m S of, and parallel to, a dry stream bed, and within the enclosure mentioned above. A fairly well-preserved, rectangular structure (L 10.15m E-W; max Wth 2.4m) comprising two, solid, unbattered, rubble masonry columns supporting a gate-arch (Wth 2.95m) of undressed voussoirs on the N wall face. A vaulted arch behind, to the S, is robbed out. While the W column only survives to one storey, the E column is two stories high. At first floor-level, its walls are stepped-out (av. Wth 0.15m), which, together with a squinch on the N wall face, provides a little extra floor area for a very small and now inaccessible guard room which has a vaulted roof (est. int. dims. L c. 3m E-W; Wth c. 1.7m N-W; wall T c. 0.5m). A possible second gatehouse (D, below) stands c. 55m to the ENE D) Gatehouse (?) (IG E 298622 N 221265 ITM E 698551 N 721294) On the level valley floor, 5m S of a dry stream bed, c. 55m ENE of a gatehouse (C, above) and within the enclosure mentioned above. Two short lengths of thin, coursed, flagstone-walling meet to form an external, S-angle where a battered SW-facing wall (3.2m NW-SE; H 3.4m; wall T 2.6m) joins a vertical SE-facing wall (3.6m NE-SW; H 3.4m; wall T 1.9m). It may be the remains of a gatehouse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007004 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs taken in 1963 (CUCAP AIG064) and 1966 (CUCAP APA056/API002). Occupying both the moderately steep, SE-facing, pasture slope of a minor valley and the level valley floor, through which a small stream (now dried up) flowed SW, and overlooked by slightly higher ground WSW-N-NE. A series of low earthen banks and associated shallow fosses extends over a large, roughly rectangular area (est. dims. L c. 350m NW-SE; Wth c. 300m NE-SW) on the site of 'Cell céli críst' (KD020-007002-) an early monastery where a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem (KD020-007003-) was subsequently founded in the 13th century, and immediately to the S and W of which a section of the Pale Boundary runs (KD020-008----). While the existence of an enclosure around the early monastery is to be expected, there is no obvious visible surface trace of one, the visible earthworks being mainly rectilinear in outline and probably the result of the very extensive medieval activity on the site; including a large rectangular enclosure which is presumably associated with the preceptory. (Manning 1982, 213, 219) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007005 Cross - High cross
  Description

  National Monument No. 275. On the roadside on the NW edge of a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem (KD020-007003-) which was founded on the site of 'Cell céli críst' (KD020-007002-) an early monastery, immediately to the S and W of which portion of the Pale Boundary runs (KD020-008----). Fragments of a 12th century sandstone cross consist of the head with only one arm surviving (dims. H 0.95m, est. original Wth of arms c. 1.28m; T 0.38m) and the base (dims. L 1.05m; Wth 0.74m; H 0.47m). The head is not ringed, but does have a volute in the armpits. One face bears a tall diamond-shaped panel in relief which may carry interlace decoration, and there is a raised but seemingly undecorated panel on the arm. The other face is badly damaged. It has a raised square at the centre of the head, but appears to be undecorated. The base bears arcading; six on each face and four on each side/end. (Crawford 1907, 221; Ó Ríordáin 1947, 86-7; Harbison 1992, 134-5, Figs. 448, 449) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007009 Bridge
  Description

  A small, single-arched, masonry bridge with low, walled parapets (total Wth 7.8m ENE-WSW) crosses a now dry stream bed only 3.5m ENE of a gatehouse associated with a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers (KD020-007003-), and carries a minor road running NNW-SSE. The bridge's well-finished arch (Wth 2.4m; H 1.8m) is faced with undressed voussoirs, with a fine granite keystone on the WSW face. A now illegible plaque was read by Fitzgerald (1916 ) as dating its construction to 1830. Although only a few metres to the ENE of the ruined gatehouse (which presumably controlled a crossing point on the stream) the crossing point appears to have been moved, probably to create a wider carriageway, and the bridge may well incorporate stone from the earlier gatehouse? Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007010 Graveyard
  Description

  In a minor valley through which a small stream formerly flowed SW just to the N, and on the site of the early monastic foundation of 'Cell céli críst', where a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers (KD020-007003-) was subsequently founded. Contains the ruins of a church (KD020-007002-) which, upon excavation (Manning 1982, 173-229), was found to be the result of several building-phases dating from the Early Christian through the Romanesque and high medieval periods to the 17th c. A section of the Pale Boundary (KD020-008----) runs nearby, to the S and W. A roughly rectangular area (dims. L c. 40m NE-SW; Wth c. 35m NW-SE) is enclosed by a stone wall. Manning (op cit 213-16) identified 23 headstones, one recumbent stone and an iron cross, and recorded all legible inscriptions. The dates on the headstones ranged from 1714 to 1954. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007011 Cross-slab
  Description

  Leaning against the inner face of the N wall of the nave, at a blocked up medieval doorway, at Kilteel church (KD020-007002-). A large granite slab (dims. L 1.48m; min. end-Wth 0.28m; max. end-Wth 0.44m; mid-point Wth 0.57m; T 0.18m) has rounded corners and a convex surface decorated with an abstract motif resembling a cross; iconography that would fit within the canon of motifs for the cross-slab tradition. It may be of Viking or pre-Viking date. (Manning 1982, 183-4, 189, 222; Healy 2009, 92) See attached drawing of cross-slab taken from Manning 1982, Fig. 6. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007012 Graveslab
  Description

  Found during conservation work outside the S wall of the nave of Kilteel church (KD020-007002-). A fragment of a coffin-shaped slab with two hollow mouldings along the chamfered edges and a raised stem up the centre. It is of probable 13/14 century date. (Manning 1981-82, 205, 207). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-007013 Cross-inscribed stone (present location)
  Description

  An encircled (diam. 0.16m) cross-inscribed stone (dims. L 0.55m x 0.3m H) found during conservation work incorporated into the internal face of the S wall of the extended nave of Kilteel church (KD020-007002-) (Manning 1981-82, 191). Manning (ibid. 208-9) suggested that this cross-inscribed stone may have served as a consecration cross locate above the lintelled W doorway of the earliest stone church. See attached drawing of inner face of S wall of nave of church taken from Manning 1981-2 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2019

• KD020-007014 Font
  Description

  Stone trough or possible font (dims. L 0.75m x W 0.65m x H 0.44m) found during conservation works, it was partly buried in the ground inside the W wall of Kilteel graveyard (KD020-007010-) (Manning 1981-82, 203). Manning (ibid.) suggested that this granite stone was a possible farmyard trough of uncertain date, but could have been a crude font. The stone was a water outlet at one side of the stone and not in the centre of the base which is normal location on medieval fonts. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2019

• KD020-008 Linear earthwork
  Description

  The area which would later be called 'The English Pale', from the Latin 'palus', a stake, and also possibly from the name of an earthen fortification at Calais in France (Lydon 1972, 261), originated in the 14th century when Norman settlers began fortifying their lands in counties Dublin, Kildare, Louth and Meath against attack by the native Irish. By 1435, ongoing attacks, probably primarily aimed at cattle theft (Ó Ríordáin 1971, 15), prompted the concept of an additional, linear defensive feature, the boundaries of which were defined in a 1488 Act of Parliament as extending, 'from Merrion inclusive to the waters of the Dodder, by the new ditch to Saggard, Rathcoole, Kilheel (Kilteel), Rathmore and Ballymore (Eustace), thence to the county of Kildare into Ballycutlan (Coghlanstown), Harristown and Naas, and so thence to Clane, Kilboyne, and Kilcock' (McNeill 1950, 250). In 1494, Parliament directed that, 'every inhabitant, earth tiller and occupier in said marches (borderlands), do build and make a double ditch six feet high above ground at one side or part which meareth next unto Irishmen between this and next Lammas (August 1st.), the said ditches to be kept up and repaired as long as they shall occupy said land.' However, Ellis (Ellis S. G. 'The emergence of the English Pale in Ireland' in Irish Historical Studies) points to a statute in Poyning's parliament in 1495 for 'ditches to be made aboute the Inglishe pale' as the first application of the term to Ireland. The Pale contracted eastwards in subsequent years and it is not certain if its original extent was ever completely ditched. By the 17th century the Pale had ceased to have any real political or defensive significance. Only a few short sections have been positively identified in Co Kildare; in Kilteel Upper/Cupidstown near Rathmore (KD020-008-----), in Bishopsland just SW of Ballymore Eustace (KD029-039----), at Castlebrown or Clongowes (KD010-021----/KD014-008----) and finally, the best preserved, semi-continuous portion which runs for c. 3365m through the townlands of Ballybrack, Ballyloughan, Clonduff, Clonfert South and Graiguepottle, c. 5km N of Clongowes (KD010-001----). In Kilteel Upper/Cupidstown, a 1966 aerial photograph (CUCAP APA056) shows extensive earthworks around the early monastic foundation of 'Cell céli críst' (KD020-007002-) upon which a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem (KD020-007003-) was founded in the 13th c. Manning (1981-82, 213, 219) subsequently identified some of the earthworks which ran to the S and W of the preceptory as being part of the Pale Boundary (traceable L c. 1100m). The main line of the earthwork, to the S of the ecclesiastical remains, was a shallow ditch (Wth 3.5m; D 0.6m) with a broad, low earthen bank (Wth 6.5m; H 0.6m) 'outside', to S, and a low, earthen, bastion-like projection was also noted. A small, overgrown section of the earthwork c. 750m E of the ecclesiastical remains was subsequently excavated archaeologically as it lay on the line of the Cork-Dublin Gas-pipeline (O'Donnell 1987, 110; Cleary et al. 1987, 106-110). An earthen bank (H 1.27m; Wth 2m) had a shallow, 'outer' ditch (Wth 2.26m; D 0.23m) to SW, while second 'inner' ditch to NE had been recently recut. A palisade-trench (D 0.38m; Wth at top 0.34m; Wth at base 0.24m) was found running along the top of the bank. See attached Google Earth aerial photos taken 04/05/2019 and 02/04/2013 showing pale ditch to S of Kilteel church and graveyard Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

Name

Kilteel Upper · Cill Chéile Uachtarach

Area

851,149 m² (85.11 ha, 210.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteel, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Kilteel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilteel electoral division: 638 people in 204 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackdown, Coolahocka, Cromwellstown, Cupidstown, Furryhill, Kilteel Lower, Oldtown, Rathbane

Placenames

Kilteel Upper on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

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