Kilwoghan
Townland in the civil parish of Kildrought, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 45.1 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 1,837 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilwoghan, from 3 m² to 182,661 m² (18.27 ha, 45.14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilwoghan 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
2 Apr 2026Conditional
A. Change of roof profile from hip end profile to full gable end profile to accommodate attic conversion incorporating dormer extension to rear, B. new window to new gable, C. 2 No 'velux' roof lights to front elevation, D. all associate4d site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2639
25 Mar 2026N/a
A. change of roof profile from hip end profile to full gable end profile to accommodate attic conversion incorporating dormer extension to rear, B. new window to new gable, C. 2 no. velux roof lights to front elevation, D. All associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2636
23 May 2025Refused
for dividing the existing house plot to allow for a second site to the rear of the existing house. Full planning permission to sought for a fully service single storey house, with vehicle entrance, walls and piers on the existing house side boundary wall. Connection to the existing County Council drainage and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560550
2 Sept 2021Conditional
application for a 10 year permission for development on lands in the townland of Griffinrath, Celbridge. The development will consist of the construction of a solar PV farm with an operational life of 35 years comprising approximately 75,984 No. photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 44.21 hectares and associated ancillary development including 10 No. transformer stations, approximately 124 No. string-inverters, 1 No. onsite 38kV substation building, 1 No. 40ft storage container building, 7 No. CCTV security cameras mounted on 4 metre high poles and perimeter security fencing (2 metres high), the construction of an internal hardcore access road between the solar panels and the site access, localised improvements to an existing agricultural access from the adjoining L5065 road to facilitate construction and operational phase access and, the installation of a 38kV underground electricity cable from the onsite 38kV substation to the 110kV Griffinrath substation ca. 0.75km to the southeast. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of an Aviation Glint and Glare Assessment Report, an Archaeological Report ; an amended Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment; a Traffic Report; drawings of cable locations and trench reinstatement and road closures and road diversion routes; a Stage 1/2 Road Safety Audit; updated drawings of the existing and proposed entrance and the proposed compound and temporary set down area; and a risk assessment of the hazards associated with a fire in or near the solar arrays.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211256
9 Mar 2018Refused
construction of a detached single storey bungalow with integrated single storey domestic garage, access road, connection to public foul sewer and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18239
20 Apr 2017N/a
a single storey side and rear extension of circa 68sq.m to an existing single storey & two storey structure incorporating a new playschool room and ancillary toilets, kitchen, store room, associated alterations to side & rear elevations, foul water to existing treatment system, surface water to soakaways and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17442
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 Kilwoghan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilwoghan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilwoghan.
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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2866 (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 Kilwoghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Kilwoghan
- Area
- 450,939 m² (45.09 ha, 111.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildrought, 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
- Ballygoran, Griffinrath, Moortown, Oldtown, Thornhill
- Placenames
- Kilwoghan 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.