Kildellig

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildellig, from 344 m² to 826,439 m² (82.64 ha, 204.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Kildellig 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  renovate existing Dwelling House with single storey Extension to the Side of the Existing Dwelling House, new septic tank and percolation area and to include all associated site work.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560875

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  partially demolish and extension of single storey dwelling house, permission is also sought for a new road entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560427

• 9 Jul 2025N/a

  extend single storey dwelling house, permission is also sought for a new road entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560413

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  New dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560228

• 16 Apr 2025N/a

  construct new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560216

• 29 Jul 2024N/a

  Proposed dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460450

• 25 Jul 2024N/a

  construct dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460443

• 24 Jul 2024N/a

  construct dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460436

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  construct a new dwelling, site entrance, driveway, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360258

• 15 Jun 2021Conditional

  (1) milking parlour including dairy, plant room, collecting yard, soiled water storage tank and (2) cubicle house, underground slurry storage and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21433

• 28 May 2021N/a

  1. milking parlour including dairy, plant room, collecting yard, soiled water, storage tank and 2) Cubicle house, underground slurry storage and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21381

• 5 Aug 2020Conditional

  construct a new dwelling, site entrance, driveway, sewerage treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20400

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  construct proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20322

• 27 Jun 2019Conditional

  construct Two Storey Dwelling House, Garage, Site Entrance, Wastewater Treatment System & Percolation Area and to include all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19364

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 Kildellig.

Recorded monuments

• LA022-021 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A subcircular area (dims. c. 33m N-S, 42.3m E-W) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.8m). No evidence of fosse or original entrance. 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

• LA022-022001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A slight curve in the field bank E of the church (LA022-022002-) and graveyard (LA022-022003-) may indicate the remains of an eccelsiastical enclosure. 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

• LA022-022002 Church
  Description

  St Ernan or Senan is the patron saint of Kyledellig and is commemorated on the 1st. January. It is recorded as the 'Rectoria de Delgy' in thirteenth and fourteenth-century entries in the Red Book of Ossory. Thady O'Brien was appointed to the Parish in 1491 and Donald O'Phelan in 1525 (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 64). According to Carrigan (ibid.) it was a very small church (L c .11m), and in 1862 its E gable and S wall were knocked down and the material used in the construction of the surrounding rectangular graveyard (LA022-022003-) wall. The foundations of a rectangular church, now barely visible, survive. A slight curve in the field bank E of the graveyard may indicate the remains of an enclosure (LA022-022001-). 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

• LA022-022003 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating countryside. Visible headstones are post 1700 AD. According to Carrigan it was a very small church (LA022-022002-), and in 1862 its E gable and S wall were knocked down and the material used in the construction of the surrounding rectangular graveyard wall (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 64). The foundations of a rectangular church now barely visible survive. A slight curve in the field bank E of the graveyard may indicate the remains of an enclosure (LA022-022001-). Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 14m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. 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

• LA022-023 Castle - motte
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A square motte (summit dims c. 9m sq., H c. 4m) with slight evidence of a fosse at S and W. 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

• LA022-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 46m) defined by an inner bank (Wth c. 2m, int. H c. 0.5m, ext. H c. 3-4m), intervening fosse (Wth c. 7.9m) and the remains of an outer bank(Wth c. 2m, H c. 0.5m) at S and W. No evidence of original entrance. 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

• LA022-027 Moated site
  Description

  Cropmark of subrectangular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, 375-6). 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

• LA028-006 Burial ground
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 or 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. In undulating countryside. Reference to a graveyard here (Candon 1986, 22). 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

• LA028-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth c. 2.7m, int. H c. 0.4m, ext. H c. 0.8m) and faint remains of an external fosse. No evidence of original entrance. 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 Kildellig.

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 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 Kildellig.

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 Kildellig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kildellig · Cill Deilge

Area

4,472,988 m² (447.3 ha, 1,105.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kildellig, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Kildellig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kildellig electoral division: 297 people in 96 households; 87% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beckfield, Brocka, Bushfield or Maghernaskeagh, Coolbally, Delligabaun, Garryduff, Grange More, Kilcoke, Kilcotton, Palmershill, Tinnaclohy

Placenames

Kildellig 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.