Oldkilcullen

208 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldkilcullen, from 11 m² to 363,931 m² (36.39 ha, 89.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 81 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Oldkilcullen 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.

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission for a granny flat extension to the side of my house, incorporating existing domestic storage shed and part of the existing house

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561402

• 14 Nov 2025N/a

  installation of a secondary effluent treatment system to service existing house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561288

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  for a new single storey dwelling house with waste water treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 24133

• 17 Apr 2024N/a

  Single storey dwelling house with waste water treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 24125

• 9 Apr 2024Conditional

  The development consists of the following works, retention of a detached domestic garage and planning permission for a single story side extension to existing dwelling along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460305

• 4 Apr 2024N/a

  retention of a detached domestic garage and planning permission for a single story side extension to existing dwelling along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460285

• 27 Mar 2024N/a

  The development will consist of the following works, retention of a detached domestic garage and planning permission for a single story side extension to existing dwelling along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460259

• 2 Feb 2023Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single storey sub-standard dwelling, the construction of a new dormer style replacement dwelling, a domestic garage and all associated site works, revised by Significant Further Information to include proposed renovation and a proposed single storey extension to the existing cottage

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2385

• 29 Aug 2022Refused

  (a) Proposed new single storey dwelling; (b) New vehicular entrance; (c) Domestic garage; (d) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221058

• 17 Feb 2022Refused

  for a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new upgraded entrance, c) domestic garage, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22166

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  planning permission for (a) proposed new single storey dwelling, (b) domestic garage, (c) upgrading of existing entrance, (d) treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211827

• 9 Aug 2021Refused

  (a) proposed new single storey dwelling, (b) new upgraded entrance, (c) domestic garage, (d) treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211150

• 30 Jul 2021N/a

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 11/432 - development which will consist of the building of a dormer type dwelling, serviced with small on site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, domestic garage, recessed entrance and all associated siteworks

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 211104

• 11 Dec 2020Refused

  the construction of a detached single storey dwelling house with detached single storey domestic garage with vehicular entrance off the road to rear/west of the site and via the existing agricultural entrance; and the installation of a new secondary effluent treatment system and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201517

• 14 Oct 2020Conditional

  a single storey granny flat extension to the side of existing dwelling, and all associated site works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201199

• 5 Oct 2020N/a

  a single storey granny flat extension to the side of my existing dwelling and all associated site works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201151

• 3 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of single storey extension to existing house

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201002

• 21 Aug 2020Conditional

  1. The construction of extensions to the rear and northern side of an existing dwelling, and 2. the replacement of the onsite waste water treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20943

• 1 Jul 2020Conditional

  extension to existing garage and part conversion of same to living accommodation to include bedroom and kitchen/dining area. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the installation of new wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20693

• 31 Jul 2019Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance, landscape screening and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19867

• 25 Jul 2019Refused

  the construction of a detached single storey dwelling house with detached single storey domestic garage with vehicular entrance off the road to the rear/west of the site and via the existing agricultural entrance; and the installation of a new secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19836

• 24 Jan 2019Conditional

  of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing single storey property. The single storey extension consists of a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and hallway. The total number of bedrooms of the property has not been increased as a result of the development

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 1958

• 5 Dec 2018Conditional

  construction of bungalow type house, installation of secondary effluent treatment system, together with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181461

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  change of house type from that previously granted under planning file Ref. No. 16/904 to a single storey house type to the front with storey and a half type to the rear

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181416

• 21 Aug 2018Refused

  construction of bungalow type house, installation of secondary effluent treatment system, together with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181017

The 25 most recent of 33 applications.

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 Oldkilcullen.

Recorded monuments

• KD028-048 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On a hilltop, in pasture, with panoramic views in all directions. A low, sub-circular mound (H. 1m at W-1.5m at N and E; base diams. 10.5m E-W; 9.9m N-S; summit diam. 4.3m E-W; 3.3m N-S) is composed of earth and stone. An iron Trigonometrical Station, revetted by earthfast stones, is embedded on the surface, and the height (OD 594 feet) is recorded on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The monument may have been a pre-existing mound modified for that purpose. Traces of a fosse and possible external bank are visible on Digital Globe aerial photography suggesting that this mound may be the remains of a bowl-barrow. This burial mound or barrow is annotated 'Moat' on Longfield's 1809 map of part of Oldkilcullen (NLI MS. 21 F. 34(28)). On this map it is depicted as a small mound standing immediately south of a road annotated 'Green Road called Drawwell Lane'. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan Date of revised upload: 18 January 2019

• KD028-049002 Cross - High cross
  Description

  In the NW sector of a graveyard (KD028-049011-) on an early monastic site (KD028-049001-). Part of a National Monument (No. 71) in state ownership. According to Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 393-4), the North Cross, of granite, comprises a square shaft (H. 1.6m; L 0.4m; Wth 0.4m) set into an almost square base (H. 0.35m; L 0.9m; Wth 0.8m). The N, E, and W faces of the shaft have decorative panels representing biblical figures, and several panels of interlace, while the S face has heavily eroded interlace. (Harbison 1992, 160-1) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

• KD028-049003 Cross - High cross
  Description

  To SE of centre in a graveyard (KD028-049011-) on an early monastic site (KD028-049001-). Part of a National Monument (No. 71) in state ownership. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 394), the East Cross, of granite, comprises a tall rectangular shaft (H. 3m; L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m) with undecorated panels outlined by low rounded mouldings, set in a pyramidal base (H. 0.3m; L 1m; Wth 0.9m). (Harbison 1992, 159: Figs. 531) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

• KD028-049004 Cross - High cross
  Description

  To W of centre in a graveyard (KD028-049011-) on an early monastic site (KD028-049001-). Part of a National Monument (No. 71) in state ownership. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 394-5), the West Cross, of granite, comprises an almost square shaft (H. 0.5m; L 0.4m; Wth 0.35m) and rectangular base (H. 0.4m; L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m). It is undecorated. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

• KD028-049005 Church
  Description

  To NE of centre in a graveyard (KD028-049011-) on an early monastic site (KD028-049001-). Part of a National Monument (No. 71) in state ownership. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 391-93), the church retained its dedication to St MacTail throughout the Middle Ages suggesting a direct continuity with the original pre-Norman monastic foundation. It was one of the churches confirmed to Glendalough in 1179 by Pope Alexander III, and was subsequently granted to the Augustinian Holy Trinity in Dublin and remained in their possession throughout the Middle Ages. Evidently a church of some importance, in 1584 it had five annexed chapels. An episcopal visitation of 1615 noted that the chancel was in ruins, although the nave was sound, and in 1630 both were reported to be ‘in reasonable reparation’. Grose (1791) shows the building roofed with an additional structure attached at N. The remains comprise portions of the wall footings of the nave (15.5m E-W; 4.5m N-S) and chancel (4.5m E-W; 4m N-S) built of roughly coursed limestone blocks. The N walls of the nave and chancel are levelled, and only portions of the N and S walls of the chancel survive. The E wall of the chancel is a later insertion, the S wall of the nave is buttressed and the W door is represented by two splays. In 2000, O Carragáin (pers. comm.) noted a granite slab (L 1.86m; Wth 0.64m) with a circular notch (diam. 0.14m) at one end and a circular perforation (diam. 0.13m) at the other – a possible threshold stone. In July 2019, Seán Sourke recorded the presence of the base plinth of Romanesque date which is decorated with an angle roll that may have come from the base of the chancel arch. This fragment appears to be the same stone that was uncovered during archaeological excavations carried out on the church in 1939 (Ó h-Iceadha 1941, 150). At this time the excavators uncovered the base of the chancel arch which was the only fragment found in situ. The excavator described the base as being of 'the bulbous type and closely resembles the base of the chancel arch of the Nuns' Church at Clonamcnoise. These excavations uncovered several fragments of worked stone in area where the chancel arch stood. Two types of worked stone was uncovered consisting of a friable granite and a calciferous tufa. In 1939 the church remains were described as following; 'Internally the nave measured 50 ft. 3 ins. [15.3m] x 18 ft. 3 ins. [5.5m] with side walls 2 ft. 9 ins. [0.83m] thick. The western or end wall of the nave was 3 ft. [0.9m] in thickness. The chancel, which had been cut off from the nave by a wall with a door opening inserted in the arch - possibly during the 18th century - measured 13 ft. 4 ins. [4m] in width and had side walls 2 ft. 8 ins. [0.8m] thick. Two buttresses, erected as a support to the south wall of the nave, and portion of a wall which formed part of an extension on the north side are indicated on the plan. The entrance at the western end of the nave was splayed as shown but there was no indication of recessive orders. Traces of a porch, excavated outside the west door, would also appear to have formed part of a restoration' (ibid., 151). See attached plan of excavated church showing base plinth of Romanesque chancel arch taken from Ó h-Iceadha 1941. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 04 September 2019

• KD028-049006 Round tower
  Description

  To SW of centre in a graveyard (KD028-049011-) on an early monastic site (KD028-049001-). Part of a National Monument (No. 71) in state ownership. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 393), this is a circular tower (diam. 4.5m; H. 10m), the upper portion of which is missing, built of roughly coursed limestone blocks. There is a slightly battered, round headed door at the N side (H. above ground 1.8m). There is a rectangular flat-lintelled window facing S at second floor-level, with granite jambs and a limestone sill. (Barrow 1979, 116-7) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

• KD028-049010 Architectural fragment
  Description

  In a graveyard (KD028-049011-). Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 395) mentions a possible graveslab, described in the Dublin Penny Journal (iv, no. 185, Jan. 1836, 229) as a tapering slab with a hole at either end, and measuring 6’ (c. 1.83m) by 2’ 2” (c. 0.66m), that was not located. This may, however, be the slab subsequently noted by O’Carragáin in 2000 (pers. comm.) as a possible threshold stone at the medieval church (KD028-049005-). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

• KD028-049011 Graveyard
  Description

  On a moderately steep-sided hilltop (OD c. 150m), on the site of an Early Christian monastery (KD028-049001-) and later, medieval borough (KD028-049----). A subrectangular area (c. 75m E-W; c. 40m N-S) is enclosed by a stone wall and accessed through a gate at the NW corner. Legible grave markers date from the 18th-century to the present. The interior contains a ruined medieval church (KD028-049005-), a round tower (KD028-049006-), and fragments of three High crosses (KD028-049002-, KD028-049003- and KD028-049004-) (Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 391) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

• KD028-049012 Graveslab
  Description

  According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 395), a graveslab bearing a 16th-century knightly effigy was moved from the medieval church in Old Kilcullen (KD028-049005-) to the modern R.C. church in Ballymore Eustace graveyard (KD029-011004-). See KD029-011011- for its present location. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

• KD028-061 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on Longfield's 1815 survey map of the Glebe of Kilcullen (NLI Ms. No. 21 F. 34(29)) as an enclosure and depicted by two concentric circles. Not recorded on any edition of the OS mapping. No visible surface trace survived in 1986 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 May 2013

• KD028-093 Enclosure
  Description

  The partial curving cropmark of an enclosure is visible on Google earth aerial imagery taken 28/06/2018. See attached image of Google Earth photograph which shows partial cropmark of the enclosure based on information supplied by Edward O'Riordan Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan Date of upload: 20 February 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldkilcullen.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Oldkilcullen.

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

Name

Oldkilcullen · Seanchill Chuillinn

Area

3,209,943 m² (320.99 ha, 793.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcullen

Electoral division

Kilcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcullen electoral division: 3,695 people in 1,256 households; 75% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysaxhills, Common, Glebe North, Glebe South, Halverstown, Knockaulin, Knockbounce, Moortown, Nicholastown, Yellowbogcommon

Placenames

Oldkilcullen 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.