# Skirteen, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monasterevin, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 333,487 m² (33.35 ha, 82.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,194 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 18 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monasterevin, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/monasterevin.md - Barony: Offaly West - Electoral division: Monasterevin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 5,949 people lived in 2,051 households in the Monasterevin electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25215 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 81127 - Centre: latitude 53.139431, longitude -7.071074 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skirteen, from 20 m² to 77,260 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1036847: 77,260 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036847.md - Parcel 1039135: 50,917 m² (5.09 ha, 12.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1039135.md - Parcel 1031773: 45,695 m² (4.57 ha, 11.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031773.md - Parcel 1040550: 23,624 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040550.md - Parcel 4892563: 17,929 m² (1.79 ha, 4.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4892563.md - Parcel 1027174: 16,221 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027174.md - Parcel 5257427: 8,016 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5257427.md - Parcel 1029776: 6,889 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029776.md - Parcel 1058753: 6,185 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058753.md - Parcel 5577920: 4,194 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5577920.md - Parcel 1080903: 3,646 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080903.md - Parcel 1015490: 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1015490.md - Parcel 1056564: 1,508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056564.md - Parcel 1053929: 1,180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053929.md - Parcel 1021681: 809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021681.md - Parcel 1059362: 778 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1059362.md - Parcel 1071017: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1071017.md - Parcel 5257408: 230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5257408.md - Parcel 4903966: 20 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903966.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 18 applications, newest first. - 26 Feb 2025, Kildare County Council 2560190: Refused. Permission, 2 homes. for Storey & Half Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560190/0 - 10 Feb 2025, Kildare County Council 2560112: N/a. Permission, 1 home. for Storey & Half Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560112/0 - 14 Nov 2024, Kildare County Council 24357: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24357/0 - 9 Apr 2024, Kildare County Council 24118: Refused. Permission. 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 .. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24118/0 - 20 Mar 2024, Kildare County Council 2499: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2499/0 - 15 Aug 2023, Kildare County Council 2360116: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360116/0 - 1 Nov 2022, Kildare County Council 221301: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a 45m2 garden shed/workshop. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/221301/0 - 14 Oct 2022, Kildare County Council 221228: N/a. Permission. Construction of a 54m2 garden shed/workshop. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/221228/0 - 14 Jun 2021, Kildare County Council 21855: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21855/0 - 15 May 2020, Kildare County Council 20489: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20489/0 - 30 Apr 2020, Kildare County Council 20440: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20440/0 - 17 Oct 2019, Kildare County Council 191147: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191147/0 - 29 Jul 2019, Kildare County Council 19849: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19849/0 - 16 Mar 2018, Kildare County Council 18293: Refused. Permission, 99 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18293/0 - 15 Dec 2017, Kildare County Council 171428: N/a. Permission, 99 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/171428/0 - 28 Mar 2017, Kildare County Council 17327: Refused. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17327/0 - 27 Jan 2017, Kildare County Council 1781: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/1781/0 - 17 Jan 2017, Kildare County Council 1726: Refused. Permission, 115 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/1726/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skirteen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 11816005, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11816005. 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, registry number 11816101, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11816101. 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, registry number 11816102, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11816102. 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, registry number 11816103, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11816103. 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, registry number 11816104, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11816104. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Skirteen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2286, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2286.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/skirteen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/skirteen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/skirteen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Skirteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clogheen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clogheen-80316.md - Coolnafearagh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolnafearagh.md - Monasterevin: https://everytownland.com/kildare/monasterevin.md - Mooreabbey Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/mooreabbey-demesne.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/skirteen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/skirteen