Kilduff

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilduff, from 1,302 m² to 774,830 m² (77.48 ha, 191.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Kilduff 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.

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20454

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: Raheenmore Bog SAC 000582
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Raheenmore Bog 000582

Recorded monuments

• OF010-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Poorly preserved possible ringfort in low lying area and partly built on by farm sheds. Circular area (int. dims. 30m N-S) defined by low earthen bank or scarp and shallow external fosse. Described in 1977 as, 'a poorly preserved circular ringfort. The earthwork is outlined on east by slight remains of a low bank of earth with a shallow fosse outside it. On south there is a low scarp with a modern drain beyond it, while on west there is a very low broken down scarp. On the northern side the earthwork is bounded by a low bank & fosse which form part of the field boundary. The interior of the site is fairly even & is featureless. The diam.[eter] of the interior is approx. 30m north-south. This earthwork is in fairly flat pasture land, moderately drained' (ASI file 1977). Depicted as a tree-ring and not as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and on the revised 1908 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular grove of trees. The site is located 450m N of Kilduff House and may have been built as a tree-ring forming part of the landscaping of the land around Kilduff House. On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map the site appears to be a tree-ring forming part of the landscaped lands of Kilduff House. It is possible that this was originally a ringfort that was re-used as a tree-ring or alternatively that this feature was constructed in the 18th/19th century as a tree-ring. In 2002 archaeological testing was carried out by John Purcell under licence no. 02E1182 as part of the planning schedule for a single-house development near an earthwork (OF010-009----). Four trenches were excavated by mechanical digger. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Kilduff House, country house, 1770–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house with attic, built in 1775. Built by Roger Nort. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls with limestone string course and quoins. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows and tooled limestone sills. Small single-pane windows to attic. Square-headed door opening with pilastered pediment, sidelights and fanlight with cast-iron work. Timber panelled door with brass door furniture. Front door accessed by limestone steps and wrought-iron railings. Door to north is square-headed Gibbsian surround with block architraves, cast-iron fanlight and scroll keystone. Timber panelled door with painted brass door furniture. Timber battened door provides basement access to rear elevation. Granite gate piers to house. The outbuildings are aligned to north, with integral buttressed carriage arch with bellcote. Workers' cottages to ends of outbuilding wings. Cast- and wrought-iron gates and courtyard to outbuildings. Ashlar gate piers and wall in Palladian arrangement with central cast- and wrought-iron gates, flanked by cast- and wrought-iron pedestrian gates.

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 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 Kilduff.

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 Kilduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Kilduff · An Choill Dubh

Area

2,488,418 m² (248.84 ha, 614.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilclonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Lower

Electoral division

Kilclonfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilclonfert electoral division: 448 people in 137 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnan, Bunsallagh, Clonagh, Cloneen, Derrycoffey, Kilcorbry, Oldcroghan, Puttaghan, Raheenmore

Placenames

Kilduff 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.