Celbridge Abbey

Area

1,232 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 337 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Celbridge Abbey

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• KD011-012001 Historic town
  Description

  According to Bradley et al. (1986, Vol. 2, 126-36), evidence for pre-Norman settlement consists of the placename Cill Droiched ('the church of the bridge'), traditional associations with St Mochua, and traces of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure. The village was known as Kildrought until the 18th c. Celbridge formed part of the 'cantred of Offelan nearest Dublin' granted by Strongbow to Adam De Hereford before 1176. Adam granted Celbridge ('Kildroch') to his brother John, who was in turn succeeded by his son Thomas, on whose death, before 1224, Celbridge passed to his son-in-law Milo de Rochford. The Rochfords held Celbridge until the mid-14th c. Although the earliest evidence for the existence of a borough occurs in 1401, there was clearly a significant settlement there by 1314 when Henry le Waleys was charged with breaking the 'doors of houses in the town of Kildroght' and taking geese, hens, bread, and beer (Wood et al. 1956, 318). Around 1387-9, John Rout and Richard Arblaster, chaplains, were given royal licence to enfeoff Maurice FitzThomas, earl of Kildare, with the manor of Kildroght. The manor was forfeited after the rebellion of Silken Thomas, and in 1536, it was granted to John Alen, Master of the Rolls. By 1554, it had been restored to the Kildares when the earl requested the Lord Deputy to confirm the manor of Castletown (i.e. the town of the castle of Celbridge) to Gerald Sutton, who was later to forfeit it because of his part in the Baltinglass rebellion of 1580. In 1587, the manor of Castletown-Kildroght was granted to John Dongan, and the Dongan's held it for most of the 17th c. In 1654, the Civil Survey recorded 'one stone house .. intended for a malt house, a bridge over the Liffey and three mills in Celbridge, while the 1659 census gave the population of Kildroght as 63 and Celbridge as 34. In 1674, Celbridge was granted a weekly market and two yearly fairs. A burgage plot pattern is evident on 19th century maps, but subsequent building has severely eroded it. There are references to two castles (KD011-023---- and KD011-012003-), a bridge (KD011-012007-) and several mills (KD011-012008-), and evidence of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD011-012004-), and a medieval church (KD011-012005-) and graveyard (KD011-012006-) survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• The Abbey National School, school, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay single-storey national school, dated 1845, on a bow-ended symmetrical plan; three-bay single-storey side elevations. Now disused. Bow-ended hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls originally roughcast on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings centred on cut-limestone date stone ("1845") with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Pair of round-headed flanking door openings with rendered surrounds framing "fanlight"-detailed rendered infill. Pointed-arch door openings (side elevations) with rendered block-and-start surrounds framing rendered infill. Pointed-arch flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Road fronted with concrete footpath 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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2900 (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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.