Blackrath

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackrath, from 47 m² to 635,880 m² (63.59 ha, 157.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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 Blackrath 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.

• 20 Jan 2026N/a

  an agricultural shed and underground storage tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660053

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  an extension to the rear of an agricultural storage building currently under construction on my farm

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23265

• 16 May 2022Conditional

  an existing 15 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment containers and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local planning reference 11/245. The development will continue to form part of Eircom Limited's existing and future telecommunications and broadband network

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22561

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  sought to the side of the existing two storey dwelling of the existing single storey sun lounge as built, altered from that granted under P.P.R.R. 00/1896 and for permission to: (a) Extend the existing bay window, entrance hall and sun lounge "link", all to the front, incorporating revised roof arrangements to each; (b) Revise the fenestration arrangement of all elevations and to apply external insulation with render finish and (c) Remove 2 small eaves gables to front (Phase 2)

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22260

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  the construction of a straw store and associated site works on my farm

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21184

• 26 Jan 2021N/a

  the construction of a straw store and associated site works on my farm at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2175

• 10 Feb 2017Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey outbuilding (floor area = 150m2), and the erection of a single storey farm machinery storage barn (floor area = 682m2) to southern side of existing storage barn, single storey farm workshop barn (floor area = 203m2) to northern side of existing storage barn, and all associated site works. The proposed development is located to the rear of Ballintaggart Country House which is a protected Structure, Ref: B32-14

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17136

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 Blackrath.

Recorded monuments

• KD032-031 Church
  Description

  At the N end of a graveyard (KD032-031001-). Only the grass-covered foundation line (L 5m N-S; Wth 2.3m; H 0.2-0.4m) of the W gable wall is visible. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 29 October 2013

• KD032-031001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a low but moderately steep-sided pasture ridge. A roughly D-shaped area (c. 36m E-W) with a straight E side (L c. 26m) is enclosed by a low modern, mortared stone wall. The interior is generally higher (H 1m) than the surrounding ground, except between WSW and WNW where it is level with the outer ground. The interior is covered in long grass with the N-third having a lot of nettle growth. Traces of a ruined church (KD032-031----) are visible in the N sector, and legible gravemarkers date to the 18th-century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 29 October 2013

• KD032-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Mid way along a short gentle SW-facing pasture slope. A fairly poorly preserved, heavily poached, circular area (int. diams. 221.m E-W; 21.7m N-S) is defined by a very broad but denuded earthen bank (Wth 8-10m; int. H 0.6-1.1m; ext H over base of outer fosse 1.2m at W-2.3m at N), a fosse (base Wth 2.8m at W-4.2m at E), SE-W-N-E, and by a second, outer bank (Wth 3.2m at S-5.7m at N; ext H 0.3m), SE-W-N-ENE. A gap (Wth 3m) in the inner bank at ENE is probably the original entrance, but there is no visible trace of a corresponding causeway in the heavily poached fosse outside. The interior is covered in strong nettle and thistle growth. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 29 October 2013

• KD032-033 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In a farmyard near the W-edge of a low pasture ridge. According to Tickell (1960, 370, 373), Blackrath Castle and its lands were leased by the Eustaces in 1536. A fairly poorly preserved small, two-storied rectangular structure (int. 5.4m E-W; 4m N-S; ext 7.45m E-W; 6.4m N-S; H c. 6m) is built of thin randomly coursed flags, and is abutted at W by a later building. Entered through a plain lintelled doorway (Wth 1.2m) in the N wall, the ground floor is lit by two loops, in the E and W walls. Ground floor-level is roofed by a barrel vault, orientated E-W (H 2.1m). Although there is no internal access to the upper floor levels, an infilled square ope (L 0.8m; Wth 0.8m) in the underside of the vault may have allowed internal access to occur. Externally, the wall faces carry a lot of ivy, but a rectangular ope (Wth. c. 1m) can be made out in the S wall at first floor-level. Its small size and lack of direct easy access to the upper floor-levels suggest it may have been the defensive tower of a bawn? Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Blackrath, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Blackrath · An Ráth Dhubh

Area

4,644,671 m² (464.47 ha, 1,147.72 acres)

Civil parish

Narraghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Inchaquire, the unit of the census

Census 2022

230 people lived in 83 households in the Inchaquire electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annalough, Ballintaggart, Ballymount, Brewel West, Calverstown Little, Inchaquire, Kingsland, Lipstown, Rahoonbeak

Placenames

Blackrath 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.