Shindala

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shindala, from 1,013 m² to 97,240 m² (9.72 ha, 24.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Shindala 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.

• 11 May 2026Conditional

  The development will consist of the erection of a new slatted shed, concrete yards and all ancillary works. The Retention consists of a milking parlour and collecting yard with slatted area, dairy and machine room, meal bin, drafting and animal handling yard, cubicle shed with slatted tank, unroofed slatted tank with feeding and exercise area, 2 no. silage pits, overground slurry store, general purpose shed including loose area with seepage tank and dry storage area, concrete yards, hardcore yards and ancillary works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660506

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  construction of new two storey style dwelling, new recessed entrance from existing lane-way, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660196

• 8 Sept 2025N/a

  for the erection of a new slatted shed, concrete yards and all ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561025

• 19 Apr 2018Conditional

  the removal of Condition 3 of the planning register reference 00/54 relating to a sterilization agreement and for the construction of a storey and a half dormer bungalow dwelling incorporating a wastewater treatment system, for the construction of a domestic garage and for all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18439

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 Shindala.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shindala.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shindala, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2312 (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 Shindala with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Shindala

Area

641,982 m² (64.2 ha, 158.64 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Lackagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

841 people lived in 265 households in the Lackagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmoyle, Lackaghbog, Mountrice, Mountrice Bog, Ummeras More

Placenames

Shindala 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.