Blackhill

121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackhill, from 12 m² to 107,839 m² (10.78 ha, 26.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Blackhill 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.

• 25 Sept 2026N/a

  a. RETAIN ENLARGED GARAGE WITH ACCESS STAIRS TO FIRST FLOOR LEVEL STORE. b. RETAIN APPLICATION 05/1780 FURTHER INFORMATION REQUEST DIRECTIVE 2: NO HALF HIPS, RETAIN DORMER BAY TYPE WINDOW, NO MOCK TUDOR CLADDING, NO REAR BALCONY AND NO BRICK FACADES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE KILDARE RURAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES. c. RETAIN WIDENED ALTERED FRONT VEHICULAR ACCESS.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2661062

• 23 Feb 2026Refused

  3 no. single storey, detached tourist accommodation lodges each with 2 no. additional single storey, detached glamping pods along with a single storey, detached retreat building. Also, ancillary development consisting of replacement vehicular entrance, landscaping, boundary treatment, bike storage, car parking, EV charging facilities, disabled car parking, outdoor sauna and plunge pool low level lighting, bin storage area, new internal access roads and on-site waste water treatment facilities for all units. All associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660176

• 19 Jul 2025Refused

  for the construction of a single storey detached bungalow with single storey element, single storey detached domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560818

• 23 Oct 2024Refused

  for a detached one and half storey house with single storey element, single storey detached domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461102

• 21 Oct 2024N/a

  for the construction of a detached one and half storey house with single storey element, single storey detached domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461087

• 14 Feb 2024Refused

  for the construction of a detached one and half storey house with single storey element, single storey detached domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460116

• 25 Jul 2023Refused

  the construction of a new dwelling, with attached domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new splayed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23808

• 4 Jul 2023N/a

  Will consist of the construction of a new dwelling, with attached domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new splayed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23745

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  (i) A 61.4sqm extension to the existing service station amenity building to accommodate a new food offer and revised seating, circulation, customer toilets, storage, staff areas, resulting in a net retail floor area of 87sqm and an overall floor area of 330.8sqm; (ii) Elevational changes to building including new canopy, new and relocated signage, new entrance and exit doors, a pay hatch and new glazing; (iii) Revisions to the site layout incorporating a modified western site entrance area, 8 no. new car parking spaces, including 2 no. disable spaces, new bicycle parking area comprising 6 no. spaces and new signage at eastern entrance; (iv) The construction of 2 no. refuse areas in southwest corner with 2100mm high timber fencing surrounding; (v) All associated drainage and other site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23717

• 14 Mar 2023Conditional

  (a) The retention of an 81.5 sqm single storey creche and (b) The provision of a new package wastewater and all associated site works and services

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23250

• 8 Jun 2022N/a

  an 81.5m2 single storey creche at this site

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22704

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  sought for: (i) An extension (61.4 sqm) to the service station amenity building to accommodate 2 No. new food offers and revised seating, circulation, customer toilets, storage, and staff areas, resulting in a net retail floor area of 100 sqm and an overall floor area of 326.6 sqm. (ii) Elevational changes to building including new canopy, relocated signage, new entrance doors and glazing. (iii) Associated revisions to the site layout incorporating a modified western site entrance, 8 No. new car parking spaces including 2 No. disabled spaces. (iv) All associated drainage works and other site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22545

• 25 Mar 2022N/a

  sought for an 81.5 sqm single storey creche at this site

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22332

• 19 Oct 2021Refused

  a commercial garage/car sales & repairs forecourt facility to include: (A) Prefabricated sales office structure, (B) Vehicle servicing outbuilding structure, (C) Canteen structure, (D) Toilet outhouse type structure, (E) Vehicle display hard standing forecourt area, (F) Floodlights and cctv cameras, (G) Security fencing, (H) Vehicular entrance/egress point, (I) Signage, and all associated ancillary site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211508

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  the retention of dwelling as built as previously granted under planning ref. no. 04/2725, and all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2025

• 19 Dec 2019N/a

  retention and alterations to dwelling previously granted under planning ref. no. 04/2725, alterations to existing dwelling include; (1) Alterations to layout including removal of rear projections decreasing the overall floor area and reducing bedrooms from 6 to 5. (2) Minor alterations to all elevations including positioning, size and style of windows and doors, and garage doors. (3) Addition of first floor dormer window to side elevation. (4) Addition of saddle rooflight to main roof pitch. (5) Replacement of 2 no. dormer windows on rear elevation with 2 no. dormer style doors with integrated roof balconies and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 191419

• 9 Apr 2019Conditional

  A high power electric vehicle charging station consisting of the : (1) installation of 6 no. electric vehicle charging bays, each comprising a parking space and electric v (2) associated revisions to existing car parking area.(3) installation of electric vehicle power units. (4) construction of a new substation. (5) erection of illuminated signage. (6) all associated lighting, infrastructure , site and development works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19379

• 30 Jul 2018Refused

  retaining a prefabricated sales office structure, floodlights and CCTV cameras and all ancillary site-works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18920

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 Blackhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackhill.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Blackhill, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2872 (ZIP).

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

Name

Blackhill · An Cnoc Dubh

Area

710,915 m² (71.09 ha, 175.67 acres)

Civil parish

Oughterard, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Bishopscourt Upper, Blackchurch, Boherphilip, Kill East, Kilwarden, Tuckmilltown

Placenames

Blackhill 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.