Ladycastle Lower

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ladycastle Lower, from 19 m² to 78,590 m² (7.86 ha, 19.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ladycastle 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.

• 24 Nov 2025Conditional

  for the conversion of the ground level garage to a bedroom with an ensuite bathroom

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561320

• 10 Oct 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of 2no. covered Padel Tennis courts with associated lighting and surrounding glass enclosures with steel frame and fabric roof covering. The development will be on lands east of the K Club hotel within an existing carpark with a site area of 603sqm

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461036

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  construction of a part two storey, 4 bedroom dwelling house, with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone gate piers to new driveway off the public roadway. Revised by Significant Further Information consisting of the refurbishment of the existing stone cottage to the west boundary of the site accommodating a home office, with WC, kitchenette and storage space.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23912

• 17 Jun 2022Refused

  the construction of a part two-storey, 4-bedroom dwelling house, with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone gate piers to new driveway off the public roadway

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22743

• 17 May 2022N/a

  sought for the construction of a part two-storey, 4-bedroom dwelling house with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone gate piers to new driveway off the public roadway

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22575

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the partial demolition of an existing single-storey block of accommodation and the addition of new, single-storey extensions to the south-east and north-west of the existing dwelling, including new waste water treatment system and all associated landscape and site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22495

• 6 Feb 2019Conditional

  the construction of 40sqm single storey ground floor living room extension and 12.30sqm first floor bedroom extension with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19103

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  The construction of a part two-storey, 4-bedroom dwelling house, with effluent treatment system and gated entrance and stone piers to new driveway off the public roadway.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181281

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 Ladycastle Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-017 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  In a narrow strip of woodland flanking the S-bank of the River Liffey, and apparently truncating the E-end of a low, tree-clad ridge. A large, steep-sided, flat-topped, circular earthen mound (dims. H c. 4m at E - c. 7m at W; base diam. 30m; summit diam. 15m) has traces of a shallow fosse girdling the base N-E-S. There is a shallow depression at the centre of the summit . The 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map shows a long, narrow, rectangular area (est. dims L c. 50m NE-SW; Wth c. 20m) defined by a scarp, extending to the NE of the monument, a possible bailey. In 2002, an archaeological assessment (Licence No. 02E1513: www.excavations.ie) was carried out before construction of the south golf course of the K Club. A 30m buffer zone from the base of the motte was to be left undisturbed. Archaeological monitoring of ground works followed (Licence No. 02E1781: www.excavations.ie) covering an area of 26.2ha., in which a limekiln (KD014-017001-) of apparent medieval date was discovered, and a substantial medieval ditch (dims Wth c. 5.5m; D c. 2.2m; traced L 50m north-west/south-east) located c. 60m south-west of the motte. The disturbed remains of a later structure, possibly of late or post-medieval date, were exposed overlying the tertiary fills of the ditch. In addition, a range of post-medieval structural debris was exposed in the vicinity. These appeared to relate to a largely demolished farm depicted on the first-edition OS 6-inch maps. The limekiln and medieval ditch appear to relate to settlement associated with the motte. Monitoring also revealed twelve abraded fragments of medieval pottery and eight fragments of human skull (from one adult individual). Subsequent excavation (Licence No. 02E1782: www.excavations.ie) revealed structural remains of medieval date, compacted into a low irregular mound, consisting of medieval crested ridge tiles, perforated roofing slate and pockets of decayed mortar, c. 35-40m from the edge of the motte. The heavily disturbed remains of two clay-bonded stone walls or wall footings were exposed, in addition to other deposits of stone, suggesting a structure with minimum dimensions of 12m by 3m; the scattered remains of metalled surfaces and build debris of post-medieval date, apparently associated with the demolished farm complex depicted on the first-edition OS 6-inch maps, of which one solitary brick building remains intact. The foundation trench of one building was also exposed. A section of the substantial ditch was investigated but the only significant finds recovered were a perforated roofing slate and a fragment of human skull; the roofing slate suggesting the ditch was backfilled some time after the abandonment of the adjacent medieval structure. Its dimensions suggest a significant boundary or enclosing feature, also associated with occupation of the motte. Finds recovered from the area include 280 sherds of medieval pottery, 175 fragments of roof tile, 345 roofing slates and 263 fragments of post-medieval pottery. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-017001 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Located c. 140m south-east of a motte (KD014-017----), the remains of a limekiln, exposed during archaeological monitoring of ground works (Licence No. 02E1781: www.excavations.ie) associated with the development of an access road and clubhouse on the south golf course of the K Club, were subsequently excavated (Licence No. 03E0516: www.excavations.ie). The kiln consisted of a central firing bowl (Wth c. 3m; D 0.6m) with two flues extending to the north-west and south-east (Wth c. 0.8m; D 0.35m). The firing bowl and the mouths of the flues were lined with a clay-bonded stone packing, consisting of coarse undressed limestone cobbles and small stones (av. dims L c. 0.3m; Wth 0.15m; H 0.1m). A small number of the stones had been roughly dressed. The upper extent of the firing bowl and the flues had been truncated by later disturbance, but the flues appear to have originally been covered over by capstones. The flue extending to the north-west was considerably broader, suggestive of a rake-out pit, but its full extent had been truncated. The fills of the firing bowl consisted of successive layers of charcoal, burnt clay and fractured limestone from the last firing of the kiln. No evidence for an associated slaking pit was exposed, though the vicinity of the kiln had been heavily disturbed by a previous phase of works. The only finds recovered consisted of two abraded fragments of medieval pottery from the clay bonding of the kiln. Only one fragment could be loosely identified, as Dublin ware of 13th/14th century date. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-097 Enclosure
  Description

  Faintly visible on Apple Maps aerial imagery in level pasture c. 200m E of the NE-flowing River Liffey: a subcircular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by the cropmark of a fosse. See attached image: KD014-097----_01 Snip of Apple Maps aerial imagery. The circular feature to its NE is a pond. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère. Date of upload: 31 July 2023

Architectural heritage

• Straffan House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of rubble stone boundary wall, c.1835.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2801 (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.

No address of the register names Ladycastle Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ladycastle Lower · Caisleán na Bantiarna Íochtarach

Area

1,956,478 m² (195.65 ha, 483.46 acres)

Civil parish

Whitechurch, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Bodenstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bodenstown electoral division: 5,091 people in 1,700 households; 71% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Irishtown Lower, Irishtown Upper, Ladycastle Upper, Lodgepark, Straffan Demesne, Turnings Lower

Placenames

Ladycastle 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.