Blackchurch

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackchurch, from 12 m² to 373,002 m² (37.3 ha, 92.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Blackchurch 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.

• 10 Apr 2025N/a

  for a single storey self-contained family flat side extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2572

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 Blackchurch.

Recorded monuments

• KD015-014 Habitation site
  Description

  In 2003, a site was identified through archaeological testing (Licence no. 03E1606: www.excavations.ie) during pre-development road-widening of the existing N7 between the Maudlins Interchange and the Dublin/Kildare county boundary. It was subsequently excavated (Licence no. 03E1837: www.excavations.ie) as 'Site 14B'. A rectangular area (dims. L 40m; Wth 8m), located immediately north of the existing N7 and immediately west of the Castlewarden Road, was excavated and a number of linear ditches were identified extending both east-west and north-south. The stratigraphy suggested that the features represented multiple phases of activity. The linear features appeared to represent alterations in field boundaries and/or drains. Most of the fills contained medieval pottery. Some later, shallower recuts held post-medieval pottery. A number of irregularly shaped hollows filled with mixed organic soils that contained medieval pottery were identified within the natural subsoil and were interpreted as tree boles left after land clearance. All of the activity represented agricultural activity and the presence of the pottery in the dump fills suggests that there might be a medieval settlement in the vicinity. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD015-015 Habitation site
  Description

  In 2003, a site was identified through archaeological testing (Licence no. 03E1606: www.excavations.ie) during pre-development road-widening of the existing N7 between the Maudlins Interchange and the Dublin/Kildare county boundary. It was subsequently excavated (Licence no. 03E1838: www.excavations.ie) as 'Site 14C. A square area (dims. L 50m; Wth 50m) located immediately north of the existing N7 and immediately east of the Castlewarden Road was excavated. Two main ditches identified were in the south-west corner and extended at right angles to one another. They did not, however, form part of an enclosure but appear to have an agricultural function - possibly drainage or land/property boundaries. The remaining features consisted of shallow, irregular-shaped pits and shallow gullies. It is thought that this activity may be associated with possible land clearance and subsequent agricultural activities, including drainage, ploughing and small field divisions/plots. All of the features produced medieval pottery dated to the 13th/14th centuries. Later post-medieval plough furrows show that the field has been cross-ploughed, but some stratigraphically earlier furrows running in different orientations may further indicate changes in boundaries. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD015-018 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 20m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 30 April 2019

• KD020-023 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  In 2003, 'Site 14D' (designated KD020-023----) was identified in a large open field during pre-development N7 road widening archaeological centre-line testing (Licence No. 03E1606: www.excavations.ie) and was excavated (Licence No. 03E1839:). Three small pits/post-holes were identified near one another. There was no evidence of any associated burning and the features did not form any discernible plan or pattern. Three small, unworked flint flakes were recovered from one of the fills, suggesting possible prehistoric activity. The lack of any further associated material suggests that these were isolated features in the landscape. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD020-027 Habitation site
  Description

  Archaeological testing (Delaney 2006 Excavation Licence No. 03E1607) was undertaken at ‘Site 48’ prior to the N7 Naas Road Widening and Interchanges Scheme revealed a number of relict field drains, possible boundaries and cultivation furrows. To the east of the tested area there appears to be a concentration of potential archaeological features, including possible floor surfaces, ditches/gullies and pits. Burnt and unburnt bone, slag and evidence for metalworking and concentrations of charcoal have been recorded from the area and a fragment of lignite bracelet was also retrieved from a pit here. It is suggested that the site may be of early medieval date. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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_2904 (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 Blackchurch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Blackchurch

Area

886,509 m² (88.65 ha, 219.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteel, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oughterard electoral division: 846 people in 271 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackhill, Castlewarden North, Castlewarden South, Kilwarden, Newrow, Quinsborough, Tuckmilltown

Placenames

Blackchurch 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.