Oldgrange

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldgrange, from 103 m² to 213,852 m² (21.39 ha, 52.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Oldgrange 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.

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  Planning permission to construct a two storey extension to the front of existing two storey dwelling, alterations to front façade and all associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660924

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the installation of 4 no. lighting poles 12m high with LED floodlights to illuminate the juvenile pitch, and retention permission is sought for 8 no. existing lighting poles 18m high and 8 no. lighting poles 16m high associated with the two senior pitches, onto which new LED floodlighting units will be installed. Retention permission is also sought for 13 no. streetlights 5.2m high located within the site and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560680

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  of alterations to the elevations of an existing previously approved extension (Planning Ref. 17/735) to the rear of an existing thatched cottage which is a protected structure

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460263

• 19 Mar 2024N/a

  of alterations to the elevations of an existing previously approved extension (Planning Ref. 17/735) to the rear of an existing thatched cottage which is a protected structure

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460237

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  for a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, recessed residential entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211156

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  (a) The retention of minor modifications to the elevations at ground and first floor levels of as permitted dwelling which was granted permission under planning register reference no. 00/402. These minor modifications consist of changes to the window locations and window dimensions to the elevations of the as permitted dwelling. (b) The retention of 2 no. extensions (kitchen extension with an area of 27.8 m2 and playroom/study/WC extension with an area of 25.7 m2) to the rear of the as permitted dwelling. (c) The retention of a fuel store (for domestic use only) with an area of 44.0 m2 located to the side of the as permitted dwelling. (d) The retention of a domestic garage/store (for domestic use only) with an area of 91.8 m2 located to the site of the as permitted dwelling (e) All associated site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 20290

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  for a single storey extension to rear of existing cottage which is a protected structure, re-thatching of existing cottage, Aswa Flow SBR wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17735

• 9 Mar 2017Conditional

  single storey dwelling house as a 'granny-flat' ancillary to the main house; the rescinding of condition No. 2 attached to planning application 06/1767; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17261

• 23 Feb 2017Conditional

  to extend existing ball stop wall by 13m at 2.5m high and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17193

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 Oldgrange.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-033 Quarry
  Description

  Depicted as a quarry or pond feature on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map with field boundaries radiating out from hollow depression at E and W. Hollow depression now filled in shows up on as the cropmark of a filled in pit on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Does not appear to be the remains of an archaeological monument of pre-1700 date. The cropmark of a similar feature can be seen on Google Earth 180m to NE. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of revised upload: 05 December 2018

• KD031-052 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure intersected at E by road running N-S visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• KD031-053 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure with entrance gap at SE, annexe to N and radiating field system visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

• KD031-055 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 43m NE-SW) visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 28/06/2018. Could be the remains of a levelled moated site or possibly the site of the 'Old Grange' after which the townland was named. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Seán Sourke Date of upload: 20 April 2021

• KD032-055 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13-7-1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BC.09) shows the cropmarks of two conjoined curvilinear enclosures with a smaller lunate enclosure linking the two main enclosures on the southern side. A similar lunate enclosure borders the western enclosure on its northern side. Traces of short linear fosses extending from the enclosures suggest an associated field system. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• The Wee Thatch, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to front. Gable-ended roof with thatch. Rope work to ridges. Rendered chimney stack. Flat-roof to porch. Materials not visible. Rendered walls (possibly over rubble stone or mud walled construction). Ruled and lined to porch. Painted (unpainted to rear elevation to north). Rendered stringcourse to porch. Buttress to rear elevation to north. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from road. Gravel verge to front.

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 Oldgrange, 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 Oldgrange.

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 Oldgrange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Oldgrange · An tSeanghráinseach

Area

1,537,400 m² (153.74 ha, 379.9 acres)

Civil parish

Narraghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Fontstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 144 households in the Fontstown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyadams, Ballynagussaun, Fontstown Upper, Killeen, Monatore, Rathsillagh Upper

Placenames

Oldgrange 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.