Maganey Lower

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maganey Lower, from 72 m² to 193,445 m² (19.34 ha, 47.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Maganey 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.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  - Replace (“restringing”) and uprating of c.10.2km section of the conductor along the existing Athy - Carlow 110 kV OHL circuit; - Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; - Replacement of 14No. existing Intermediate Wooden Polesets, with similar structures. The replacement of these structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m, with height increases between 1m and 2m; - Replacement of 15No. existing Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; - Bar member replacements to 2No. existing steel angle masts; - Recapping works on shear blocks at 2No. existing steel angle masts; and, - All associated works/development to existing structures, including insulator/hardware replacement (strain clamps, suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of step bolts, replacement of line identification and danger notices, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anti-climbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660323

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of c.8.89km section of the conductor along the existing Athy - Carlow 110 kV OHL circuit; - Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; - Replacement of 11No. existing Intermediate Wooden Polesets, with similar structures. The replacement of these structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 24m, with height increases between 1m and 3m; - Replacement of 12No. existing intermediate Wooden Polesets crossarms; - Recapping works on shear blocks at 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Foundation strengthening of 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Bar member replacements to 8No. existing steel angle masts; - Separation of the existing double OHL circuit to provide for a new bypass OHL section measuring approximately 422m, connecting from the existing Athy 110 kV substation to the following proposed new structures on the existing Athy - Portlaoise 110 kV OHL: 2no. new single circuit angle masts (approximately 22.5m maximum height) and 1no. new wooden poleset (approximately 23.6m maximum height); and, - All associated works/development to existing structures, including hardware replacement (strain clamps, suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of step bolts, replacement of line identification and danger notices, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anti-climbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660550

• 8 Mar 2024Conditional

  1. for 3no existing c11.6m2, c12.5m2, c7.4m2 extensions and associated alterations to retail building and stores approved by Kildare County Council under planning grant reference 08/1691. 2. Retention for c48.8m2 and c20.9m2 storage buildings to rear and side of existing retail building. 3. Retention for existing alterations to forecourt canopy, bike storage structure, roadside boundary wall finishes, forecourt reconfigurations including addition of 1no fuel dispenser/island, open air bin storage area enclosed by c1.8m high timber panelling, 18no car and 3no HGV parking spaces, and associated ground line markings. 4. Retention for 1no freestanding price signage totem and associated advertising signage. 5. Retention for Shopfront, canopy, and forecourt area signage. 6. Full planning permission for upgrade of existing wheelchair accessible car parking space and all other all other site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460206

• 22 Feb 2024N/a

  for 1.Retention for 3no existing c11.6m2, c12.5m2, c7.4m2 extensions and associated alterations to retail building and stores approved by Kildare County Council under planning grant reference 08/1691. 2. Retention for c48.8m2 and c20.9m2 storage buildings to rear and side of existing retail building. 3.Retention for existing alterations to forecourt canopy, bike storage structure, roadside boundary wall finishes, forecourt reconfigurations including addition of 1no fuel dispenser/island, open air bin storage area enclosed by c1.8m high timber panelling, 18no car and 3no HGV parking spaces, and associated ground line markings. 4.Retention for 1no freestanding price signage totem and associated advertising signage. 5.Retention for Shopfront, canopy, and forecourt area signage. 6. Full planning permission for upgrade of existing wheelchair accessible car parking space and all other all other site development works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460153

• 13 Feb 2024N/a

  permission for 1. Retention for 3no existing c11.6m2, c12.5m2, c7.4m2 extensions and associated alterations to retail building and stores approved by Kildare County Council under planning grant reference 06/1983. 2. Retention for c48.8m2 and c20.9m2 storage buildings to rear and side of existing retail building. 3. Retention for existing alterations to forecourt canopy, bike storage structure, roadside boundary wall finishes, forecourt reconfigurations including addition of 1no fuel dispenser/island, open air bin storage area enclosed by c1.8m high timber panelling, 18no car and 3no HGV parking spaces, and associated ground line markings. 4. Retention for 1no freestanding price signage totem and associated advertising signage. 5. Retention for Shopfront, canopy, and forecourt area signage. 6. Full planning permission for upgrade of existing wheelchair accessible car parking space and all other all other site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460107

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  for essential maintenance and repair works to the Barrow Navigation, in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit, comprising the following: (i) Bank Revetment & Strengthening Works, (ii) Post-Flood Spot Dredging & Maintenance Dredging, (iii) Back-drain Maintenance, (iv) Small-scale Bank Repair Works, (v) Temporary mobile welfare units, and, (vi) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance and repair works referred to above. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted with the planning application. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of (i) Specialist Hydrological Review (HES Report) and Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) correspondence (ii) Addendum to Natura Impact Statement (NIS) (iii) Addendum to Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA) (iv) Water Framework Directive Compliance Report (including Hydrological Assessment) (v) Updated Fisheries and Crayfish Report (including updated surveys) (vi) Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) (vii) Architectural Heritage Impact Assessment (AIA) (viii) Underwater Archaeology Impact Assessment (UAIA) (ix) Updated Outline Construction Environmental Management Plan (OCEMP)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460093

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23472

• 10 Mar 2023N/a

  Development at a c. 5,712 ha site at the Barrow Navigation in the townlands of Ardreigh, Levitstown (Dunmanoge E.D.), Levitstown (Grangemellon E.D.),Maganey Lower, Newtownpilsworth, Jerusalem, Grangemellon and Coneyburrow (Narragh and Reban West By), Co. Kildare. The development will consist of essential maintenance and repair works to the Barrow Navigation, in accordance with Waterways Ireland's statutory remit, comprising the following: (i) Bank Revetment and strengthening works, (ii) Post-Flood spot dredging and maintenance dredging, (iii) Back-drain maintenance, (iv) Small-scale bank repair works, (v) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance and repair works referred to above. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application. Development

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23241

• 9 Jul 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211005

• 19 Apr 2021N/a

  change of use from a previously used public house, to two fully serviced self catering lodges to accommodate leisure participants utilizing the planned "Blue Way" activities, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21507

• 9 Mar 2021Conditional

  Single storey extension to side and rear of existing single storey cottage, alterations to existing cottage including the application of new rendered external wall insulation and replacement of roof, demolition of existing extension to the rear of cottage and outbuildings to side, new replacement waste water treatment system and percolation area, closing of existing vehicular entrance and provision of new recessed vehicular entrance and all ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21291

• 12 Feb 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21163

• 7 Dec 2020Refused

  the construction of a dormer type dwelling, a domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, new entrance, connection to services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201487

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  the closure of two existing agricultural entrances and the provision of one new vehicular entrance and access road; the construction of two detached part single-storey part two-storey three/four-bedroom houses with detached garages and two detached part single-storey part two-storey four/five-bedroom houses with integrated garages; the provision of four Aswaflow SBR wastewater treatments systems and polishing filters, landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 19822

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  development at the Public Landing Jetty Below Maganey Bridge, the development will consist of the improvement and upgrading of the existing public landing jetty by replacing the damaged and deteriorating walkway with a slip resistant decking material and repairing the river bank along the length of the jetty to prevent future erosion and undercutting of the bank. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared for the project and submitted with the application.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18523

• 18 Apr 2018N/a

  development at the public landing jetty below Maganey Bridge, which will consist of the improvement and upgrading of the existing public landing jetty by replacing the damaged and deteriorating walkway with a slip resistant decking material and repairing the river bank along the length of the jetty to prevent future erosion and undercutting of the bank. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared for the project and submitted with the application, works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18429

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of a dormer style dwelling, secondary treatment system with sand polishing filter, domestic entrance, bored well and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17273

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD039-001 Burial
  Description

  Polygonal cist containing Encrusted Urn inverted over cremation. Excavated1960. Other reports of burials including one cist, two cremations, covered by small piles of stones and unprotected extended inhumations indicate a cemetery. (JRSAI 1960, 169-73) Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-001001 Cist
  Description

  Polygonal cist with an inverted encrusted urn containing the cremations of an adult female and child, excavated in 1960. Other reports of burials including one cist, two cremations covered by small piles of stones, and unprotected extended inhumations, probably indicate the existence of a cemetery. (JRSAI 1960, 169-73) Date of upload: 6 September 2016

• KD039-002 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGN 52) shows a cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (est. max dims c. 70m E-W x 50m N-S) defined by double fosse at W-N-E and a single fosse elsewhere. Entrance at the E through both fosses. Quarrying encroaches on the site at the S. Date of upload: 6 September 2016

Architectural heritage

• Maganey Railway Station, railway station, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Tudor-style former railway station with half-dormer attic, opened 1846, originally on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced entrance bay to centre (platform elevation) and single-bay single-storey return with half-dormer attic to rear to west (entrance elevation) with single-bay single-storey canted projecting open porch. Closed, 1963. Renovated and extended, c.1970, comprising single-bay single-storey end bay to south and pair of single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bays flanking return to rear to west to accommodate residential use. Reroofed and refenestrated, c.1998. Gable-ended roofs (behind parapets to gables; gablet to original entrance bay). Replacement artificial slate, c.1998. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1998. Hipped roof to end bay. Replacement artificial slate, c.1998. Flat-roofs to additional bays to rear to west. Bitumen felt. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to additional bays). Hood mouldings over. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1998 (with one opening retaining multi-pane timber window). Round opening to gable to north. Original multi-pane timber window. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance bay (platform elevation). Moulded surround. Now blocked up. Square-headed opening to canted projecting open porch. Replacement glazed uPVC door, c.1998. Set back from road in own grounds.

• Maganey Bridge, bridge, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch limestone road bridge over river Barrow, c. 1800, with cut-waters having granite ashlar roundels over and arches over towpaths.

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

At the centre of the townland of Maganey Lower, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Maganey Lower.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Maganey Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Maganey Lower

Area

992,598 m² (99.26 ha, 245.28 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmanoge, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Dunmanoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 161 households in the Dunmanoge electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfoyle (Co. Laois), Grange (Co. Laois), Levitstown, Maganey Upper, Newtownpilsworth

Placenames

Maganey 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.