Kilbreedy

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbreedy, from 428 m² to 175,405 m² (17.54 ha, 43.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Kilbreedy 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.

• 29 Apr 2025Conditional

  retain extensions to dwellinghouse, retain domestic garage and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560253

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  construct New dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460679

• 7 Nov 2024N/a

  construct new dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460675

• 14 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a single storey self contained dwelling unit attached and internally connected to the side of the existing single storey dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360091

• 18 Nov 2020Conditional

  construct a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage & car port, septic tank & percolation area, new entrance and all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20597

• 5 Oct 2020N/a

  to construct a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage and car port, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all necessary site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20509

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  construct a 2 storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works consequent on the grant of outline planning ref: 18/513

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19526

• 17 Aug 2018Conditional

  erect dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18513

• 18 Jul 2018N/a

  construct dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 18430

• 5 Jul 2018N/a

  construct dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 18394

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 Kilbreedy.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-035 Church
  Description

  Known as the Church of St Bridget (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 59-60). In undulating countryside. A late medieval parish church constructed of roughly coursed limestone. The E Gable (Wth c. 6.6m) and part of S wall (L c. 14.2m, wall T. c. 0.95m) with a chamfered doorway jambstone at W end survive. No other features visible. Some uninscribed grave-markers visible in surrounding rectangular graveyard (LA028-035001-) (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 59-60). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-035001 Graveyard
  Description

  Known as the Church of St. Bridget (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 59-60). A late medieval parish church (LA028-035) constructed of roughly coursed limestone. Some uninscribed grave-markers visible. A rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 35m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church (LA028-035) in N quadrant of graveyard. Described by Carrigan as 'The adjoining graveyard is now rarely used for Catholic interments; Protestant interments, too, are almost discontinued' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 60). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-046 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The O'Phelan's established a castle here and it remained in their ownership until the mid seventeenth century (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 60-61). Situated on a low ridge with nearby church (LA028-035) 250m to NE. A three storey rectangular-shaped tower house (dims. c. 16.9m N-S x c. 10.35m E-W, wall T c. 2.05) built of roughly coursed limestone. Broken-out entrance in E end of S wall with murder-hole overhead. Large mural passage at ground-floor level and at first floor level in N and S walls. Intra-mural stairs in W end of S wall. Large barrel vault over first floor. Three vaulted areas with opes in E wall and two in W wall. At first floor level in E wall are four rectangular shaped opes horizontally aligned. Described by Carrigan as 'It is 56 ft. long externally, and 34 and a half feet wide, and at present 35 ft. high. Within is a great barrel arch of stone, 22 ft. high at the apex, and extending the whole length of the building. One of the side-walls supporting the arch is 7 ft. thick, the other 8 and a half feet. The south end wall, containing the broken doorway, is more than 9 ft. thick. The main stairway, in the thickness of the south walls, leads from the entrance door to the upper part of the edifice. Two other stairways from the ground floor lead to long passages in the other walls, whence access is also had to the upper storeys. None of the stairs are spiral. (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 60). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-047 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 70m). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1945 (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 Kilbreedy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilbreedy · Cill Bhríde

Area

1,705,094 m² (170.51 ha, 421.34 acres)

Civil parish

Bordwell, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Donaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghmore electoral division: 273 people in 99 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoolid, Bordwell Big, Coolfin, Grantstown, Middlemount, Oldglass

Placenames

Kilbreedy 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.