Collegeland

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Collegeland, from 14 m² to 358,318 m² (35.83 ha, 88.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 88 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1University Zone 1 (Education)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Student Accomodation (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Leisure and Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Maynooth and Environs Joint Local Area Plan 2025 - 2031, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  for a Large-scale Residential Development (LRD) application of 195 no. apartments across 3 no. blocks ranging in height from 2 to 7 storeys, a childcare facility and café/commercial unit at this site of c.1.53 hectares to the rear of the former Maynooth Rectory which is a Protected Structure (RPS Ref.: B05-56) at Parson Street, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. The subject site is bound to the north and northeast by vacant lands to the rear of properties fronting onto Parson Street (with Maynooth Fire Station further beyond) and by the HSE Community Care Centre, to the east and south by the Royal Canal Greenway and to the west and northwest by the Maynooth Rectory Building and Parson Lodge residential housing estate. The development will consist of the construction of 195 no. apartments with a total Gross Floor Area of c. 17,809 sq.m, open space and ancillary infrastructure on this site as follows: A) 195 no. apartments comprising 98 no. 1-bedroom, 91 no. 2-bedroom and 6 no. 3-bedroom units in 3 no. blocks including: i. Block A will provide for 46 no. apartment units and will include 25 no. 1-bedroom and 21 no. 2-bedroom apartments along with associated private amenity space in the form of balconies in a building ranging in height from 2 – 5 storeys with a maximum height of 16.7m; ii. Block B will provide for 70 no. apartment units and will include 36 no. 1-bedroom and 34 no. 2-bedroom apartment units along with associated private amenity space in the form of balconies in a 6-storey building with a maximum height of 20.5m; iii. Block C will provide for 79 no. apartment units and will include 37 no. 1-bedroom, 36 no. 2-bedroom and 6 no. 3-bedroom apartments along with associated private amenity space in the form of balconies in a 7-storey building with a maximum height of 25.6m; B) The construction of a childcare facility at ground floor level in Block C with a Gross Floor area of 176 sq.m, with an associated outdoor play area of 145 sq.m; C) The provision of 1 no. café/commercial unit at ground floor level of Block C with a Gross Floor Area of 107 sq.m; D) The provision of 2,444 sq.m of Public Open space and 1,380 sq.m of Communal Open Space; E) The provision of 83 no. surface level car parking spaces including 4 no. EV spaces and 4 no. accessible car parking spaces; F) The provision of 419 no. bicycle parking spaces comprising 303 no. long stay/resident spaces located at ground floor levels of Block A, B and C, 106 no. Visitor spaces, 4 no. designated spaces for the

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560877

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  for proposals to carry out revised works to the previous approved planning permission, Ref. No. 2360384. The new development will comprise revised construction works to demolish the existing garage, construct a single-storey extension to the rear and side of the existing house; alter and refurbish the existing house and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560583

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  for the removal of an existing standby generator (700kVA) to the north of St. Patrick’s College and installation of a new standby generator, at a different location to the west of John Paul II Library, with a capacity of 1400kVA, fuel storage tank, electrical installations, protective bund along with all associated site development works to include protective perimeter fencing to compound. The application site is located within Maynooth Architectural Conservation Area.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460394

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  for relocating existing revolving door entrance and adding an additional revolving door to the front elevation of the building along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360538

• 20 Dec 2023N/a

  for relocating existing revolving door entrance and adding an additional revolving door to the front elevation of the building along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360515

• 16 Nov 2023Conditional

  for 1) Demolish existing shed, 2) Rear and side single story ground floor extension to accommodate; bedroom, utility room, and more living space, 3) Change rear hip portion of existing roof to a gable, 4) New skylights in the existing roof and new extension roof, 5) New canopy to south (rear) elevations, 6) New domestic shed and oil tank location, 7) Internal modifications and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360384

• 27 Oct 2021Conditional

  the demolition of existing single storey extension to front and demolition of existing single storey extension to rear of the existing single storey semi-detached dwelling. Construction of new single storey extensions to the side and rear of the existing single storey semi-detached dwelling. Works to include alterations to existing front, side and rear elevations, alterations to existing roof, new roof-light windows to both existing pitched roof and proposed pitched roof and alterations to existing front boundary/vehicular entrance and all associated site works including temporary demolition of front boundary wall during construction

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211545

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  for (a) the single storey extension to the rear (b) elevational changes to the existing dwelling (c) all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211280

• 31 Aug 2021N/a

  for: (a) The single storey extension to the rear; (b) Elevational changes to the existing dwelling; (c) All associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211244

• 24 Aug 2021N/a

  to retain (a) the single storey extension to the rear (b) elevational changes to the existing dwelling (c) all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211214

• 10 Mar 2021Conditional

  the construction of a detached two - storey domestic dwelling, a new vehicular entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21297

• 17 Feb 2021N/a

  the construction of a detached two-storey domestic dwelling and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21178

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  the relocation of existing vehicular entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201406

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  single storey extension to rear, garage conversion and attic conversion incorporating raising of ridge height together with dormer window to front,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20999

• 26 Aug 2020N/a

  Single storey extension to rear, garage conversion and attic conversion incorporating raising of ridge height together with dormer window to front all

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20967

• 12 Mar 2020Conditional

  the removal of existing, non-original, internal partition walls at the existing staircase at St. Patrick’s Quadrangle, the making of a new door opening to the existing staircase at St. Patrick’s Quadrangle from the existing Servery, the removal of existing, non-original, internal partition walls at the existing Kitchen, the construction of new partition walls in new locations at the existing Kitchen, the removal of existing, non-original walls at Ground Floor level and First Floor level to the existing annexe to the Kitchen, the construction of a new staircase and passenger lift within the existing annexe to serve the existing First Floor Office/Meeting/Seminar Room, the construction of a new lobby and new WC’s at First Floor level to the existing First Floor Office/Meeting /Seminar Room, the re-roofing of the existing flat roof to the existing annexe and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20255

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  a single storey rear/side sunroom extension with rooflights, linking existing dwelling to existing outhouse to include retention permission for conversion of existing outhouse for domestic use along with minor alterations to include an additional rooflight on SE slope, reinstatement of barn loft external stair and installation of new internal stair to the loft for non-habitable storage

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2062

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  the construction of a detached two storey domestic dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19625

• 8 Apr 2019N/a

  construction of a detached two story domestic dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19372

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  a single storey extension to the rear and front of the existing dwelling and widening of existing entrance to include all associated site works. And to include the temporary removal of front garden wall for the duration of the building works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; part demolition of existing garage by removing the roof, front wall entrance way and rear wall. Side wall to adjacent property to be retained and made good

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181544

• 10 Dec 2018Conditional

  (1) The provision of a new hard standing car park area to the south-west of the existing Maynooth Train Station, creating an additional 34 No. car parking spaces. (2) New retaining wall to track side of proposed development, kerbing, safety barriers, drainage, road markings, public lighting and all other associated site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; the addition of a shared surface between Bond Bridge (R408) pedestrian entrance and the existing Train Station Building. Provision of additional bicycle parking on site to east of existing station building. Amendments to existing boundary wall at pedestrian crossing point to the north-east of site. The site (red line) boundary has changed to include the above works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181484

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• KD005-013 Building
  Description

  In the grounds of St Patricks College, Maynooth. The site of the Earl of Kildare's Council House which formed part of the Maynooth castle (KD005-015----) complex and which was demolished c. 1780, according to the Fourth Duke of Leinster (1891-5, 321). A nearby 18th century Church of Ireland schoolhouse contains architectural features (KD005-014----) including a medieval doorway and twin-light window which reputedly came from the Council House. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's College, library/archive, 1980–1985 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay three-storey International Modern-style library, built 1984, on a rectangular plan with eight-bay three-storey side elevations and recessed ground floor having upper floors supported on mass-concrete piers. Hipped roof (probably on a quadrangular plan) with corrugated-aluminium. Aluminium ridge tiles. Rainwater goods not visible. Mass-concrete piers to ground floor continuing into upper floors with profiled sections masking floor supports/beams. Cast-concrete panels to upper floors. Square-headed openings. Fixed-pane aluminium windows along recessed ground floor and to upper floors (part-concealed by concrete panels). Glazed aluminium doors. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College. Concrete flagged forecourt to front.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1835–1836 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey hospital, built 1835-6, retaining early aspect. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Early 6/6 timber sash windows (timber casement window to centre first floor over entrance). Square-headed door opening in tripartite arrangement. Cut-stone doorcase with consoles, plain frieze and moulded cornice. Timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College. Lawns to front (south). Landscaped grounds to rear (north).

• Saint Patrick's College, university, 1796–1815 · National interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay three-storey over basement house, built 1796-9, originally detached retaining original fenestration with three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront and five-bay three-storey rear elevation to south-west having three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront. Extended, 1809-1815, comprising ten-bay three-storey over basement lateral wings having two-bay three-storey advanced end bays (incorporating chapels) and thirty-two-bay three-storey over basement lower wings at right angles to south-west (completing U-shaped plan about a courtyard) with three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfronts. Gable-ended roof to original block and lateral wings with copper (gabled to pediments; hipped to end bays). Copper ridge tiles. Gable-ended roofs to wings to south-west behind parapet walls with slate (gabled to pediments). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course (modillion eaves course to original block and lateral wings). Rendered walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners to original block and string/sill course to first floor. Cut-stone dressings to pediment to original block with cast-iron clock to tympanum in cut-stone surround. Cut-stone dressings to wings to south-west including stringcourses and coping to parapet walls, and surrounds and medallions to pediments. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to centre upper floors to original block). Stone sills. Cut-stone surrounds to some tripartite openings. Moulded surrounds to openings to first floor lateral wings. 6/6 timber sash windows (2/2 sidelights to tripartite openings). Round-headed door openings to original block. Cut-stone Ionic doorcases with moulded entablatures. Timber panelled doors. Sidelights. Decorative fanlights. Round-headed integral carriageways to lateral wings. Cut-stone advanced surrounds with keystones and moulded cornices. Round-headed door openings to breakfronts to wings to south-west. Cut-stone doorcases. Timber panelled doors. Sidelights. Decorative fanlights. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College. Arranged about a landscaped courtyard with lawns.

• Saint Patrick's College, engine house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey gable-fronted Gothic Revival engine house with attic, c.1870, retaining original aspect with shallow segmental-headed integral carriageway, five-bay single-storey side elevation to north-east and single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to left having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to rear (north-west) with red brick chimney stack on a polygonal plan. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Flat-roofed to return to north-west. Materials not visible behind parapet wall. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including clasping buttresses to corner to south-east and intermediary buttresses along side elevation to north-east. Roughcast walls to return. Unpainted. Cut-stone coping. Red brick tapered chimney stack on a polygonal plan with stringcourses and moulded coping. Paired trefoil-headed window openings (single to porch). Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded iron windows. Quatrefoil window opening to gable in cut-stone surround having hood moulding over. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded iron window. Shallow segmental-headed integral carriageway. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors with overlight. Shallow segmental-headed door opening to porch. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Timber panelled door. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay single-storey building with attic, c.1860, with single-bay single-storey end bay to left and five-bay two-storey parallel block with double-attic to rear (north-west) having four-bay single-storey wing to left (south-west). Refenestrated, c.1930. Renovated, c.1980. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to attic window to entrance block to south-east; hipped to end bay). Clay ridge tiles. Replacement glazed rooflight, c.1980, to ridge to double attic with corrugated-iron roof. Cut-stone chimney stack running parallel to ridge with rounded ends. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings (paired). Cut-stone dressings. Replacement iron casement windows, c.1930. Square-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

• Saint Patrick's College, museum/gallery, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey museum, built 1932, retaining original aspect. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Glazed lantern along ridge with gable-ended glazed roof in iron frame. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cement rendered walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Concrete sills. Iron casement windows. Square-headed door opening. Cement rendered surround. Timber panelled door with diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelling. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

• Saint Patrick's College, hall of residence, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached ten-bay two-storey dormitory building with attic, c.1880, comprising six-bay two-storey central block with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking bays having single-bay two-storey recessed lower end bay to left (north-west) with single-bay single-storey linking entrance bay to left (north-west). Now in use as exam hall. Hipped roof with slate (gabled to advanced bays; gable-ended to recessed end bay). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Flat-roofed to linking entrance bay. Materials not visible behind parapet walls. Irregular coursed squared rubble sandstone walls. Cut-stone dressings including stringcourse to first floor. Pointed-arch window openings (paired). Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. 1/1 timber sash windows with fixed-pane overlights. Pointed-oval windows openings to gables. Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane timber windows. Paired pointed-arch window openings to recessed end bay in cut-stone block-and-start surround. Fixed-pane window (possibly with stained glass). Pointed-arch door opening to linking entrance bay. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Leaded overlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College. Tarmacadam forecourt to front (south-west).

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted building, built 1902, with four-bay single-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Square rooflights. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including stepped buttresses to side elevations to north-west and to south-east. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround with rubble stone relieving arch over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

• Saint Patrick's College, outbuilding, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey part double-pile rubble stone outbuilding, c.1860, with pair of pointed-arch integral carriageways and single-bay single-storey projecting parallel block to left (north-east). Gable-ended roofs (some double-pile (M-profile)) with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Yellow brick surrounds. Now boarded-up. Pair of pointed-arch integral carriageways. Yellow brick dressings to carriageway to left with no fittings. Cut-stone chamfered reveal to carriageway to right with replacement iron sheeted double door, c.1980. Square-headed door opening to projecting block to left (north-east). Yellow brick surrounds. Timber boarded door. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College in compartmentalised site having rubble stone boundary wall.Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone building with attic, c.1860, possibly originally labourer’s cottage. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Brick chimney stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Brick dressings. Timber casement windows (possibly replacement). Square-headed door opening. Brick dressings. Timber boarded door.

• Saint Patrick's College, exam hall, 1892–1893 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height gable-fronted exam hall with attic, built 1892-3, retaining some original fenestration with seven-bay double-height side elevations to north-east and to south-west. Renovated, c.1940, with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to front (south-east) elevation. Renovated, c.1985, with three-bay single-storey projecting porch added to rear (north-west) elevation. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof behind parapet walls with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofed to porch to south-east. Materials not visible behind parapet wall. Hipped roof to porch to north-west. Fibre-cement slate. Concrete ridge tiles. Plastic rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Rendered dressings including intermediary stepped buttresses having profiled coping, consoled entablature, plain frieze and moulded cornice. Rendered parapet walls (battlemented to gable fronts with stringcourses forming ‘pediments’) with cut-stone coping. Roughcast walls to porch to south-east with rendered buttresses and cut-stone coping to parapet wall. Roughcast walls to porch to north-west with rendered buttresses and course to eaves. Round-headed window openings (some paired to elevation to south-east). Stone sills. Rendered surrounds (panelled to elevation to south-east with keystones) with hood mouldings over (forming continuous hood moulding to side elevations to north-east and to south-west). 1/1 timber sash windows with fixed-pane overlights. Octafoil openings to gables in moulded medallions having hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane windows. Shallow segmental-headed door openings to side elevations (central to elevation to north-east; off-centre to south-west) in advanced doorcases having channelled piers, moulded cornices and blocking courses. Timber panelled doors. Square-headed door openings to additional porches. Replacement timber panelled doors, c.1985 (with sidelights to south-east). Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

• Saint Patrick's College, graveyard/cemetery, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Burial ground with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1810-present, including Celtic Cross-style memorial to centre of site.Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted building, c.1880, to west with single-bay single-storey side elevations to north-west and to south-east. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof with cut-stone. Squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone dressings including corner piers. Cut-stone plaque over entrance to north-east with Celtic Cross style motif over. Square-headed door opening. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Glazed timber panelled door.Rubble stone boundary wall, c.1810, to site on a square plan with gateway to north-west comprising pointed-arch opening in cut-stone gabled surround.

• Saint Patrick's College, handball alley, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of four cut-limestone ball alleys, built 1837. Undergoing part demolition, 2002. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College. Part overgrown grounds to site.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1831–1833 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twenty-bay three-storey house, built 1831-3, probably over basement on a symmetrical plan comprising six-bay three-storey pedimented advanced central block with four-bay three-storey recessed flanking lateral wings having three-bay three-storey advanced end bays. Refenestrated, c.1990. One of a pair. Hipped roof behind parapet wall with slate (gabled to pediment). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone quoins to corners. Cut-stone stringcourse to parapet wall with cut-stone coping. Cut-stone dressings to pediment. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Replacement 6/6 and 6/3 timber sash windows, c.1990. Elliptical-headed door opening. Cut-stone doorcase with consoles, lintel and moulded cornice. Timber panelled door. 4/4 sidelights. Fanlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College fronting on to green.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey building, c.1850, with four-bay two-storey side elevations to north-east and to south-west and single-bay two-storey return to rear to south-east. Renovated, c.1985, with openings remodelled to part ground floor and entrance reoriented to accommodate commercial use. Hipped roofs on a U-shaped plan with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Rendered dressings including quoins to corners, stringcourse to first floor and band to eaves. Square-headed openings (remodelled, c.1985, to part ground floor). Stone sills (replacement concrete sills, c.1985, to part ground floor). Replacement timber casement windows, c.1985. Replacement fixed-pane timber display windows, c.1985, to remodelled openings. Square-headed door opening (originally window opening; remodelled, c.1985). Replacement glazed timber double doors, c.1985, with overlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.Attached four-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1850, to left (north-east) retaining original aspect with segmental-headed integral carriageway to ground floor and single-bay two-storey projecting bay to left (north-east). Hipped roof on an L-shaped plan with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 6/6 and 3/3 timber sash windows. Segmental-headed integral carriageway. Iron roller door, c.1985.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay two-storey house, built 1817, possibly over basement on a symmetrical plan retaining early aspect comprising five-bay two-storey central block with three-bay two-storey pedimented breakfront, single-bay two-storey flanking bays having tripartite openings and two-bay two-storey lower flanking end blocks. Hipped roofs behind parapet walls with slate (gabled to pediment). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Dressings not visible (ivy-clad). Roughcast parapet walls with cut-stone coping having urn finials. Square-headed window openings (in tripartite arrangement to flanking bays with fluted detailing). Stone sills. 6/6 and 3/3 timber sash windows (2/2 sidelights to tripartite arrangement). Round-headed door opening. Cut-limestone columnar doorcase with open bed pediment over. Timber panelled door. Spoked fanlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1831–1833 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twenty-bay three-storey house, built 1831-3, probably over basement on a symmetrical plan comprising six-bay three-storey pedimented advanced central block with four-bay three-storey recessed flanking lateral wings having three-bay three-storey advanced end bays. Refenestrated, c.1990, retaining original fenestration to upper floors of central block. One of a pair. Hipped roof behind parapet wall with slate (gabled to pediment). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone quoins to corners. Cut-stone stringcourse to parapet wall with cut-stone coping. Cut-stone dressings to pediment. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Original 6/6 and 6/3 timber sash windows to upper floors of central block. Replacement 6/6 and 6/3 timber sash windows, c.1990, to remainder. Elliptical-headed door opening. Cut-stone doorcase with consoles, lintel and moulded cornice. Timber panelled door. 4/4 sidelights. Fanlight. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College fronting on to green.

• Saint Patrick's College, church/chapel, 1875–1891 · National interest
  Description

  Attached eleven-bay single- and three-storey Gothic Revival collegiate chapel, built 1875-1891, comprising ten-bay triple-height nave with ten-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles, single-bay triple-height lower apse to north-east arranged as polygonal chevet with full-height gabled chapels and entrance to elevation to south-west. Renovated, 1899-1902, with single-bay four-stage tower added to corner to south-west on a square plan with spire. Gable-ended roof with slate laid in courses (lean-to to aisles; half-polygonal to apse and gabled to chapels to chevet). Rolled lead ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with iron cross finials to apexes. Lucarnes to nave with iron finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut-stone spire to tower with lucarnes and iron cross finial to apex. Snecked limestone walls. Cut-limestone dressings including stepped clasping buttresses to corners to south-west with polygonal finials, profiled stringcourses, stepped buttresses to long walls to north-west and to south-east having gabled capping and moulded cornice having parapet wall over with cut-stone coping. Snecked limestone walls to tower with cut-stone dressings including stepped clasping buttresses, moulded stringcourses to each stage, profiled panels to third stage with cast-iron clock faces, and moulded cornice to spire. Traceried (three-light) window openings to nave and to apse in pointed-arch frames having cut-stone chamfered surrounds with hood mouldings over. Trefoil-headed openings with hexafoil openings to arches having fixed-pane stained glass windows. Tripartite window openings to aisles in pointed-arch frames having cut-stone surrounds with hood mouldings over. Trefoil-headed openings with fixed-pane leaded windows. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to ground floor to south-west in pointed-arch frames having cut-stone surrounds, quatrefoil openings to arches and gabled hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane stained glass windows. Rose window to gable to south-west in pointed-arch frame having profiled course below comprising gablets on cut-stone colonettes. Cut-stone Corinthian colonnete surround with hood moulding over. Fixed-pane stained glass windows. Paired square-headed door openings to south-west in shared pointed-arch frame. Cut-stone shouldered surrounds. Moulded cut-stone colonette doorcase with moulded arch over in gable having octafoil motif to gable. Timber panelled doors. Lancet-arch window openings to tower. Cut-stone surrounds. Fixed-pane leaded windows. Paired trefoil-headed openings to top stage in pointed-arch frames having cut-stone surrounds, decorative motif to arches and shared hood mouldings over. Louvered fittings (probably stone). Full-height interior open into roof. Mosaic-tiled floor. Carved timber Gothic-style pews flanking aisle, carved timber panelled wainscoting with frescoes over, polished marble intermediary colonettes, hood mouldings over window openings, timber panelled gallery to first floor to south-west with organ, and moulded ribbed ceiling with painted panels. Moulded pointed-arch chancel arch on colonettes. Gothic-style carved marble altar furniture including reredos. Alabastar altar, 1908. Moulded surrounds to openings to chapels forming chevet. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College forming unofficial wing completing library quadrangle to south-east. Landscaped grounds to site.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1845–1851 · National interest
  Description

  Attached multiple-bay three-storey Gothic Revival building with attic, built 1845-51, on a U-shaped plan about a courtyard possibly over basement with three-bay four-storey projecting central entrance bay to wing to east, single-bay three-storey gabled entrance breakfront to wing to west having canted oriel windows and single-bay four-stage bell tower to wing to south having three-bay three-storey gabled projecting bay to south-west incorporating chapel. Part refenestrated, c.1990. Gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to attic windows). Clay ridge tiles. Glazed lanterns to ridges in timber frames having hipped slate roofs. Cut-stone chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Pyramidal roof to bell tower. Copper-clad. Snecked rubble limestone walls. Stepped buttresses (including clasping corner buttresses) to wing to south. Trefoil-headed window openings (some paired). Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds and chamfered reveals. Original iron casement windows (some replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990). Pointed-arch door openings. Cut-stone surrounds and chamfered reveals having hood mouldings over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors with original iron fittings. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College about a courtyard. Landscaped grounds to courtyard.

• Saint Patrick's College, handball alley, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of mass-concrete ball alleys, c.1930, with rubble stone wall to south-west. Now disused.

• Bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over railway line, c.1850, with cut-stone voussoirs, cut-stone stringcourse and rubble stone parapet walls having cut-stone coping. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls. Rubble stone dressings including piers flanking arch. Cut-stone stringcourse. Coursed squared rubble stone to parapet wall with cut-stone coping. Single round arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Cut-stone stringcourse to spring of arch. Squared rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Midland Great Western Railway line.

• Bond Bridge, bridge, 1790–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over canal, dated 1795, with ashlar voussoirs, cut-stone date stones/plaques and cut-stone coping. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone date stones/plaques. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single elliptical arch with ashlar voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with remains of lime render over. Sited spanning Royal Canal with tow path running underneath to north.

• Saint Patrick's College, building misc, 1862–1863 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey infirmary, built 1862-3, on a T-shaped plan retaining early aspect with nine-bay two-storey projecting end bay to right (south-east), three-bay two-storey lower return to rear (north-west) and four-bay double-height chapel to left (south-west) having two-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay to south-west. Renovated, c.1990, with entrance reoriented. Gable-ended roofs with slate (lean-to to projecting bay to chapel). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Irregular coursed squared rubble limestone walls. Shallow segmental-headed window openings. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds with shouldered heads. Original 6/6 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening (reoriented to present position, c.1990, with original door openings remodelled to form window openings). Cut-stone shouldered surround. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors with iron dressings. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to chapel (in tripartite arrangement to gable ends to north-west and to south-east). Cut-stone surrounds with chamfered reveals having hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane diamond-leaded iron windows. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone chamfered reveal with hood moulding over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s College.

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Radon

At the centre of the townland of Collegeland, 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 and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2833 (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 Collegeland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Collegeland

Area

524,082 m² (52.41 ha, 129.5 acres)

Civil parish

Laraghbryan, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Maynooth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

18,729 people lived in 6,110 households in the Maynooth electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Greenfield, Laraghbryan East, Maynooth, Maynooth South, Newtown

Placenames

Collegeland 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.