Mainham

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mainham, from 89 m² to 173,202 m² (17.32 ha, 42.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Mainham 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.

• 2 Apr 2026N/a

  constructing a two storey detached type dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, dungstead, upgrading of an existing derelict cottage to form equine stables, and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660351

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  single storey 'granny flat' extension to the north and front of existing house, new full length glazed walls to south and west corner of existing house, new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22689

• 23 May 2022N/a

  single storey "granny flat" extension to north and front of existing house, new full length glazed walls to south and west corner of existing house, new treatment system and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22608

• 5 May 2022N/a

  sought for single storey "granny flat" extension to north and front of existing house, new full length glazed walls to south and west corner of existing house; new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works, all

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22522

• 8 Mar 2021Refused

  constructing a bungalow, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, upgrading an existing agricultural entrance to form a recessed vehicular entrance, demolishing an existing outhouse structure, and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21286

• 24 Sept 2020Refused

  sensitively restoring an existing derelict vernacular building, constructing a single storey extension to the rear, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated ancillary site works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201091

• 3 Sept 2020N/a

  sensitively restoring an existing derelict vernacular building, constructing a single storey extension to the rear, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, and all associated ancillary siteworks,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201005

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  to subdivide Site G1, Clane Industrial Estate, and to construct a vehicle inspection centre in a two-storey block, with ancillary offices, a new vehicular road entrance, car parking, boundary treatments, and all ancillary associated works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18639

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 Mainham.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-006001 Church
  Description

  On the level S-end of a low, narrow, N-S pasture ridge, c. 100m to the NE, upslope, of a fine motte and bailey (KD014-007----) and a small enclosure (KD014-007003-). A possible medieval village (KD014-007002-) may also have been located in the vicinity. Stands to the E of centre in a graveyard (KD014-006002-). A simple rectangular church (int. dims. L 19.1m E-W; Wth 6m) is fortified by a poorly preserved, single-storied, rectangular tower (int dims. Wth 3.4m E-W; traceable L 2.5m N-S) abutting the W gable wall, and by a second, later, well-preserved, two-storied, rectangular tower (int. dims. L 4.4m E-W; Wth 3.06m N-S) attached to the SE corner. Restoration of the church in 1985 resulted in rebuilding and repointing which altered/obscured original features and a low concrete plinth (Wth 0.3m; av. H 0.15m) abuts the base of each wall, except for part of the S wall of the church. The church is built of small, roughly coursed, undressed limestone blocks and flags (av. wall T 1.12m). It is entered through a fine, round-arched, granite doorway (Wth 1.43m; H 2.35m) with chamfered jambs, towards the W end of the S wall. A second, opposing doorway (Wth 1.45m) in the N wall is blocked up and its top is robbed-out. Embrasures show that the church was lit to E of centre by two windows in the S wall and a third in the N wall, all of which are blocked-up. A small rectangular ope (dims. L 0.26m; Wth 0.26m) occurs to the E of the window embrasure in the N wall and a narrow loop (Wth 0.15m; H 0.42m) pierces the N wall at its E end. This loop has an externally splaying embrasure suggesting the former presence of an external structure of which no visible trace survives. Both gable walls have been rebuilt without windows. The W gable wall is featureless but the E gable wall contains the S side of a blocked loop-embrasure at its N end, and a doorway (Wth 1m), with a robbed-out top, at the S end giving access down two steps (D 0.26m) to a later fortified tower, standing off-line, to the SE of the church. The tower itself has three, small, projecting corner towers; the ones on the NE and SE corners being solid, while the third, slightly larger one on the SW corner contains a spiral stairs with cap-house. The ground floor is lit by a fine single light, ogee-headed, limestone window with hood-moulding in the S wall. The window sill is chamfered while the inner faces of the jambs have scotia moulding. A blocked window embrasure in the E wall contains a 19th century headstone. Opposing beam-slot holes in the N and S walls mark first-floor level, but the floor has been removed. A small, plain, square-headed doorway (Wth 0.55m; H1.4m) in the SW corner gives access to the stairs which are lit by plain loops looking S at ground and first-floor level and by a loop looking W between the two floor levels. First-floor level is accessed through a plain, square-headed doorway (Wth 0.48m; H 1.6m) off the stairs, and is lit by a plain rectangular window in the S wall. At the top of the stairs a small caphouse contains a plain doorway (Wth 0.43m; H 1.6m) which opens to the E allowing access to a narrow wall-walk (Wth 0.8-1.12m) and rebuilt parapets capped with concrete. Abutting the W gable wall of the church, the N wall and part of the W wall of an older tower survive. The N wall contains the lower courses of the springing of a barrel vault with two large corbel stones below, and there is a fine double-splayed loop in the W wall. The scar-line of a possible doorway (Wth c. 1m) between the tower and church is visible only on the outer face of the W gable wall of the church. A low wall (H 0.75-1.1m; Wth 0.8m) abutting the S wall of the church encloses a rectangular area (int. dims. L 8.65m E-W; Wth 4.7m N-S) containing 19th century graves and a cross-inscribed stone (KD014-006003-). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-006002 Graveyard
  Description

  A large D-shaped area (diam. c. 100m E-W) with a straight W side (L c. 90m) is defined by a low, mortared, stone wall with an entrance gate at the N. A fortified church (KD014-006001-) stands to E of centre in the interior and the earliest legible burial markers, dating to the 18th century, are concentrated to the S of the church, where there is also a cross-inscribed stone (KD014-006003-). Modern burials extend beyond the enclosing wall to the W and N. Immediately outside the graveyard wall at S is the 'Browne Mausoleum' (KD014-006004-) dated 1743, which Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 260-64) has recorded in some detail. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-006003 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  In a graveyard (KD014-006002-). A broad, thin and gently tapering limestone slab (H 1.17m; Wth at top 0.73m; Wth at base 0.61m; T 0.008-0.10m) has a simple ringed Latin cross incised on its E face (H 0.97m; Wth 0.41m; diam. of ring 0.11m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-006004 Mausoleum
  Description

  Built 1743. Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 260-64) has recorded it in some detail. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-007001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  The monument is 'a relic of the castle of the first Anglo-Norman proprietor, John de Hereford' (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 162) and may have had an associated village (KD014-007002-). On a gentle slope which forms the S end of a low, narrow, N-S pasture ridge which carries medieval ecclesiastical remains (KD014-006001- to KD014-006004-) c. 100m upslope to the N. A fairly well-preserved, high, steep-sided, circular earthen mound (base diams. 43.7m N-S; 42.4m E-W; surface diams. 15.4m N-S; 11.5m E-W; av.H 7.5m) has traces of a low, earthen bank (Wth 1.8-2.2m; int. H 0.2-0.5m) on its upper surface S-W-NE, and is girdled at the base by a fosse (Wth 1.4-1.8m: D 1.6-2.2m) SE-W-NE. A badger sett occupies most of the upper surface and burrowing has resulted in a lot of gravel being exposed and spilled down the sides of the mound, especially along the E. A concrete pipe (diam. 0.3m) has been inserted into the mound just W of centre and marks a Trig. Point. The sides of the mound are covered in tree stumps and the fosse contains mature oak and beech trees. Contiguous to the S a large, sub rectangular bailey (dims. max. L 60.5m E-W; Wth 46m N-S) is defined by a scarp (H 1.6m at E-2.2m at W). At its N end, closest to the motte, it carries a slightly raised, rectangular area (dims. L 37.5m E-W; Wth 15.5m N-S) which is defined by a low scarp (H 0.8m). A very small enclosure (KD014-007003-) abuts the bailey at SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD014-007003 Ring-ditch
  Description

  On level pasture at the foot of the low scarp which marks the SE limits of the bailey of Mainham motte and bailey (KD014-007001-). A small, circular area (diam. 4m) is defined by a broad band (Wth 3m) of lush, green grass, perhaps marking the line of an infilled fosse. 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 Mainham.

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2719 (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 Mainham with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Mainham

Area

703,215 m² (70.32 ha, 173.77 acres)

Civil parish

Mainham, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Balraheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Balraheen electoral division: 2,559 people in 663 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaboley, Ballynagappagh, Boherhole, Castlebrown or Clongowes, Common, Loughbollard Commons, Moortown

Placenames

Mainham 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.