Maganey Upper

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maganey Upper, from 31 m² to 501,334 m² (50.13 ha, 123.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Maganey Upper 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.

• 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

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a 30 metre high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211335

• 23 Dec 2020Refused

  to construct a two storey dwelling, garage, new splayed entrance, install a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all other ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201615

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 Maganey Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD037-073001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BT.33) shows the cropmarks of two ring-ditches; one to the E (KD037-073001-) and the second (KD037-073002-) c. 20m to its W. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD037-073002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BT.33) shows the cropmarks of two ring-ditches; one to the E (KD037-073001-) and the second (KD037-073002-) c. 20m to its W. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint Laurence O'Toole, church/chapel, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, c.1830, with lancet-arch openings, single-bay single-storey gabled sacristy projection to north having bellcote to gable and single-bay single-storey projecting porch to south. Renovated, c.1970, with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch added to north-east. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof with slate (gabled to sacristy projection; lean-to to porch to north-east). Clay ridge tiles. Cross finial to gable to south. Cut-stone bellcote to gable to sacristy projection. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roof to porch to south not visible behind parapet wall. Roughcast walls. Painted. Buttresses to porch to south with profiled parapet wall over. Profiled section to sacristy projection forming base of bellcote. Unpainted. Lancet-arch window openings. Rendered sills and surrounds. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Rose window to south. Rendered surround. Leaded stained glass windows. Square-headed window openings inserted, c.1970, to north-east and to north-west. Concrete sills. Leaded stained glass windows. Pointed-arch door opening. Rendered reveals. Diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set back from road in own grounds.Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1830-present.Gateway, c.1830, to south comprising pair of cut-granite piers with wrought iron gates having cross finial.

• Levitstown Hall, school, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1838, originally on a T-shaped plan with two-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay to centre having single-bay single-storey recessed end bays. Extensively renovated and extended, c.1970, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bays to end bays to accommodate use as community centre. Refenestrated, c.1995, with some openings remodelled. Hipped roof (gabled to projecting bay). Replacement artificial slate, c.1970. Concrete ridge tiles. Timber eaves. Replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1970. Flat-roofs to projecting bays. Bitumen felt. Replacement roughcast walls, c.1970, to front elevation to south. Unpainted. Replacement render, c.1970, to remainder. Unpainted. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled, c.1995). Concrete sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Square-headed door openings. Replacement timber doors, c.1970. Set back from road in own grounds. Rubble stone boundary wall to front.

• Levitstown Bridge, bridge, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-span mass concrete road bridge over river, c.1950. Mass concrete piers. Concrete stringcourse. Mass concrete parapet walls with dressed granite coping. Four square-headed spans (one filled in with concrete). Sited spanning River Greese.

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

Name

Maganey Upper

Area

713,233 m² (71.32 ha, 176.24 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmanoge, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Dunmanoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Blackcastle, Castleroe West, Levitstown, Maganey Lower, Newtownpilsworth

Placenames

Maganey Upper 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.