Skirteen

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skirteen, from 20 m² to 77,260 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 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 Skirteen 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 Feb 2025Refused

  for Storey & Half Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2560190

• 10 Feb 2025N/a

  for Storey & Half Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560112

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the development of a solar panel array consisting of up to c.94kWp (c.414m2) of solar panels fixed to metal frames and anchored to the ground, cable ducts and all associated works, as revised by Significant Further Information consisting of a Flood Risk Assessment and an Appropriate Assessment with Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24357

• 9 Apr 2024Refused

  Development will consist of permission for the permanent subdivision of an existing two room and bathroom extension from the main dwelling and to amend the requirements in Condition 3 of Planning Application 21/855 to remove conditions : 1 That the existing dwelling and the proposed extension shall be jointly occupied as a single housing unit. 2. That the extension shall not be subdivided from the remainder of the dwelling. 3. The extension shall not be let as a separate dwelling .

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24118

• 20 Mar 2024N/a

  permanent subdivision of an existing two room and bathroom extension from the main dwelling and to amend the requirements in Condition 3 of Planning application 21/855 to remove the conditions: 1. that the existing dwelling and the proposed extension shall be jointly occupied as a single housing unit 2. that the extension shall not be subdivided from the remainder of the dwelling. 3. the extension shall not be let as a separate dwelling.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2499

• 15 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the development of a Water Sports Hub comprising of (a) a single storey building with classroom, office, changing rooms/ toilets, kitchenette, drying room, workshop and external storage/ covered areas (b) A wastewater treatment system and percolation area (c) 2no. Equipment storage containers (d) all associated site works including a floating pontoon to River Barrow, paths, parking and boundary treatments.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360116

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  the construction of a 45m2 garden shed/workshop

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221301

• 14 Oct 2022N/a

  Construction of a 54m2 garden shed/workshop

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221228

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  change of use from garage and fuel store to a one bed granny flat and 2 no. glazed porches to the rear also permission for a waste water treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of now proposing to retain the structure as an extension, comprising of a bathroom and 2 no. bedrooms not as a family flat also to retain glazed porch "A" and change of use from glazed porch "B" to a green house both to the rear also with a waste water treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21855

• 15 May 2020Refused

  construction of a one and a half storey detached house with single storey element, recessed entrance, access via waterways Ireland link road, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20489

• 30 Apr 2020N/a

  for the construction of a one and a half storey detached house with single storey element, recessed entrance, access via Waterways Ireland Link Road, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20440

• 17 Oct 2019Refused

  a storey and a half type dwelling and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and percolation area with new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191147

• 29 Jul 2019Conditional

  the renovation and conversion of existing single storey garage to self-contained family unit with permission to construct a single storey link extension to existing detached bungalow and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19849

• 16 Mar 2018Refused

  construction of a mixed development consisting of: (1) The Hulk (Charter School) and adjacent buildings. Renovations and extension to The Hulk (RPS No: B21-29 / NIAH Ref: 11816103) and adjacent buildings (RPS No: B26-03 / NIAH Ref: 11816104) protected structures comprise of: (a) Craft retail / café space on ground floor, kitchen and toilet facilities to ground floor; (b) Craft exhibition space, community meeting room, office and toilet facilities on first floor; (c) Historic exhibition space, offices and classroom on second floor; (d) Glazed connecting corridor from the Hulk to proposed three storey vertical circulation extension; (e) Renovations of two adjacent dwellings (Block A and Block B) of the Hulk into craft studio spaces; (f) Refurbishment of two existing out buildings along southwest side of walled linen field quadrangle into storage space and associated facilities for proposed allotment area and proposed public market; (g) Required car parking and associated landscaping. (2) Crèche. The construction of a two storey crèche and all associated facilities including car parking, set down area, play area and associated landscaping. (3) 99 No. unit residential development. The construction of residential development comprising of two and three storey 2, 3 and 4 bedroom dwellings consisting of semi-detached, terraced and detached dwellings. This development consists of 11 No. two bed dwellings, 69 No. three bed dwellings and 19 No. four bed dwellings and all associated site works including proposed entrance, proposed landscaping and proposed surface and foul water sewer connections transversing a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) to the north east of site. (4) Removal of a section of existing boundary wall to Portlaoise Road and re-construction of new stone wall set back approximately 4.5m from its original location. (5) A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority as part of this planning application

  Permission, 99 homes · Kildare County Council, 18293

• 15 Dec 2017N/a

  construction of a mixed development consisting of (1) The Hulk (Charter School) and adjacent buildings. Renovations and extension to The Hulk (RPS No: B21-29 / NIAH Ref: 11816103) and adjacent buildings (RPS No: B26-03 / NIAH Ref: 11816104) protected structures comprise of: (a) Craft retail / café space on ground floor, kitchen and toilet facilities to ground floor, (b) craft exhibition space, community meeting room, office and toilet facilities on first floor, (c) historic exhibition space, offices and classroom on second floor, (d) glazed connecting corridor from the Hulk to proposed three storey vertical circulation extension, (e) renovations of two adjacent dwellings (Block A and Block B) of the Hulk into craft studio spaces, (f) refurbishment of two existing out buildings along southwest side of walled linen field quadrangle into storage space and associated facilities for proposed allotment area and proposed public market, (g) required car parking and associated landscaping. (2) Crèche. The construction of a two storey crèche and all associated facilities including car parking, set down area, play area and associated landscaping. (3) 99 no. unit residential development. The construction of residential development comprising of two and three storey 2, 3 & 4 bedroom dwellings consisting of semi-detached, terraced and detached dwellings. This development consists of 11 no. two bed dwellings, 69 no. three bed dwellings and 19 no. four bed dwellings and all associated site works including proposed entrance, proposed landscaping and proposed surface and foul water sewer connections transversing a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) to the north east of site. (4) Removal of a section of existing boundary wall to Portlaoise Road and re-construction of new stone wall set back approx. 4.5m from its original location

  Permission, 99 homes · Kildare County Council, 171428

• 28 Mar 2017Refused

  (A) to demolish existing dwelling structure; (b) permission for new single storey dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17327

• 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

• 17 Jan 2017Refused

  Construction of a mixed development consisting of: 1. The Hulk (Charter School) and adjacent buildings. Renovations to the Hulk (RPS No: B21-29 / NIAH Ref: 11816103) and adjacent buildings RPS No: B26-03 / NIAH Ref. 11816104) protected structures comprise of: (a Craft retail / café space on ground floor, (b) craft exhibition / historic exhibition space on first floor, (c) craft development studios on second floor, (d) glazed connecting corridor to 60 bed nursing home, (e) renovations of adjacent dwellings of the Hulk into shard living accommodation to be associated to the nursing home, (f) refurbishment of existing out building to storage rooms, (g) required car parking and associated landscaping. 2: Nursing Home. The construction of a two storey 60 bedroom nursing home connected to the hulk and all associated facilities including car parking, set sown area and associated landscaping. 3. Creche. The construction of a two storey crèche and all associated facilities including car parking, set down area, play area and associated landscaping. 4: 115 no unit residential development. The construction of residential development comprising of single storey, semi-detached 2 bed dwellings, two storey 2, 3 & 4 bed room dwellings semi-detached and terraced and two storey 5 bedroom detached dwellings. This development consists of 29 no. two bed dwellings, 64 no. three bed dwellings, 14 no. four bed dwellings and 8 no. five bed dwellings and all associated site works including proposed entrance, proposed landscaping and proposed surface and foul water sewer connections transversing a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) to the north east of site

  Permission, 115 homes · Kildare County Council, 1726

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skirteen.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over canal, c.1800, with cut-stone voussoirs and coping to parapet walls. Coursed rubble stone walls. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single round arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning Grand Canal (Mountmellick Branch). Grass banks to canal.

• Foot bridge, 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone foot bridge over canal, c.1785, with cut-stone voussoirs and cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Coursed rubble stone walls. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single shallow segmental arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Sited spanning Grand Canal (Athy Branch) with grass banks to canal.

• Lock, 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Canal lock, c.1785, comprising sections of ashlar retaining walls with lock gates to north-west and to south-east retaining early mechanisms. Sited on Grand Canal with grass banks to canal.

• Monasterevin Charter School, charter school, 1755–1760 · National interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey charter school, built 1758; opened 1762, on a symmetrical plan centred on three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront; pair of two-bay (single-bay deep) three-storey returns (north) centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) three-storey return. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on timber construction centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront); hipped slate roofs (north) centred on hipped slate roof, lichen-spotted clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite "Cavetto" cornice retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Round-headed central door opening with cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing diagonal timber boarded door having overpanel. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels supporting red brick voussoirs framing iron pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Set in overgrown grounds with cylindrical piers having ball finial-topped capping supporting tubular steel "farm gate".

• Monasterevin Charter School, house, 1750–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or four-bay two-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with moss-covered clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered battered walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Door opening not visible. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Set in overgrown grounds.

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 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_2286 (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 Skirteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Skirteen

Area

333,487 m² (33.35 ha, 82.41 acres)

Civil parish

Monasterevin, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Monasterevin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasterevin electoral division: 5,949 people in 2,051 households; 71% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogheen, Coolnafearagh, Monasterevin, Mooreabbey Demesne

Placenames

Skirteen 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.