Castlefish

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlefish, from 471 m² to 834,437 m² (83.44 ha, 206.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlefish 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.

• 3 Oct 2025Conditional

  for renovation and use of previous attic space for use as residential accommodation on first floor as constructed inclusive of retention of all windows at first floor level, retention of change of use of existing ground floor and attic floor area for use as au-pair accommodation (ancillary to main house) as constructed, retention of domestic shed as constructed and permission for new front porch and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2561121

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  1. Full planning permission for extension/alterations to the rear of our existing dwelling to include: (a) Demolition of 22sqm single storey extension; (b) Construction of 131.6sqm part single storey part two storey extension to the rear of the dwelling, and (c) Upgrade of existing waste water treatment system. 2. Permission for retention of 105.6 single storey domestic steel shed to the rear of the site together with all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201071

• 31 Jul 2020N/a

  (1) Extension/alterations to the rear of our existing dwelling to include: (a) Demolition of 22sqm single storey extension, and (b) Construction of 131.6sqm part single storey part two storey extension to the rear of the dwelling. (2) Permission for retention of 105.6sqm single storey domestic steel shed to the rear of the site together with all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20844

• 16 Jul 2020N/a

  1. Full planning permission for extension/alterations to the rear of our existing dwelling to include; a) demolition of 22m² single storey extension & b) construction of 131.6m² part single storey part 2 storey extension to the rear of the dwelling. 2. Permission for retention of 105.6 single storey domestic steel shed to the rear of the site together with all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20767

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 Castlefish.

Recorded monuments

• KD028-056 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In 1837, according to the OSL (Herity 2002, 67 (197)), ‘There are in the Townland of Castlefish, the ruins of an old Castle, which belonged, it is said, to Admiral Fish'. No visible surface traces survived in 1986 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 May 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Castlefish, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlefish.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Castlefish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Castlefish

Area

849,957 m² (85 ha, 210.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcullen

Electoral division

Kilcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,695 people lived in 1,256 households in the Kilcullen electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartersbog, Gormanstown, Halverstown, Kilgowan, Killinane, Toberogan, Yellowbogcommon

Placenames

Castlefish 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.