Confey

677 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Confey, from 28 m² to 780,704 m² (78.07 ha, 192.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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.

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 600 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 59 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Strategic Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Leixlip LAP 2020-2023, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Confey 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Rye Water Valley/Carton SAC 001398
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rye Water Valley/Carton 001398

Recorded monuments

• KD006-002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 2), ' … the site of Shaughlin's castle … is now covered with three white thorn bushes and some briars. …(its) ancient name was Foxe's Castle'. Furthermore, 'At a distance of about 18 perches (c.90m) to the West of it, was discovered in the making of a ditch, a Vault, which belonged to this Castle, and appears to have been 6 feet (c.1.8m) broad.' On level pasture at the N end of Shaughlin's Glen. There is no visible surface trace of either the castle or 'vault'. Their distance apart is difficult to reconcile, unless the 'vault' was part of the castle and the location of the castle recorded on the OS 6-inch maps is incorrect. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD006-003 Church
  Description

  O'Neill (2004-5, 416-9), acknowledging previous studies by O'Keeffe (1985-6, 408-17) and Manning (2002, 18-21), argues for three building phases here: he suggests that an original 11th-century, single cell structure (int. dims. L 8.3m E-W; Wth 4.68m) was converted into a nave when a chancel and chancel arch were added to its E end in the 12th-century (when it was a possession of the diocese of Glendalough), with the building being enlarged again, probably in the 15th-century, when the nave was extended, to the W. At the N end of a graveyard (KD006-003001-) within a possible field system (KD006-017----). A fairly poorly preserved, ivy-clad rectangular structure comprising a well-built nave (int. dims. L 14.5m E-W; Wth. 4.7m) of roughly dressed and coursed, limestone blocks, to the E end of which a smaller (int. dims L 5m E-W; Wth 3m) more crudely built chancel was added, but not bonded. The W end of the nave has collapsed, but the inner face of a doorway (Wth 1.7m) with segmented arch survives towards the W end of the S wall, together with traces of a possible opposing, but now blocked, doorway in the N wall. The nave is lit by two very narrow windows at the E end of the S wall; the more westerly of which is lintelled, while the easterly one although round-arched has a tympanum-stone under the arch giving a square-headed ope. Two similar, opposing windows occur in the chancel, near the E end of it's N and S walls, and there is a third in the E gable wall of the nave (with a similar tympanum to the one in the S wall) which was blocked-up when the round-headed chancel arch (Wth. 2m; H 1.8m), which springs from rectangular abacuses, was inserted. The chancel was lit by a window in its E gable wall which is robbed-out, and by a narrow flat-headed window, now blocked, at the W end of the S wall. The interior contains 18th/19th century burials marked by headstones, and piles of collapsed building stones. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD006-003001 Graveyard
  Description

  In open level pasture, separated from Confey Castle (KD006-004----), c. 160m to the ENE, by a small S-flowing stream which is spanned by a small bridge, and within a possible field system (KD006-017----). A medieval church (KD006-003----) stands at the N end of the graveyard which is shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular area (dims. L c. 40m N-S; Wth c. 30m) which was extended significantly (L plus c. 140m) to abutt the road to the S as shown on the latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map, and was subsequently extended again, to the E (Wth plus c. 50m) to its present limits. The graveyard is enclosed by a mortared stone wall and the earlier burials occur at the N end, around and to S of the church. Legible gravemarkers date from the 18th century to the present-day and Colgan and Cormack (2004-5, 502-535) have published a survey of the gravestones. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD006-004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Manning (2001, 143-5) published a mid-19th century watercolour by Du Noyer which shows one half of the castle standing to full, five story plus attic, height. There is a vault over the first floor, two projecting, parapetted corner towers are depicted and a heap of rubble is shown on the levelled half of the monument. In open, level pasture, drained to the W by a small, S-flowing stream. The castle stands within a field system (KD006-017----) which also appears to extend around a medieval church (KD006-003----) and graveyard (KD006-003001-) c. 160m to the WSW, the intervening stream being crossed by a small bridge c. 50m to the WSW of the castle. The surviving remains comprise an ivy clad, single, small and now only three storeys high, rectangular corner tower (int. dims. L 1.9m; Wth 1.5m), built of roughly coursed, unbattered, limestone blocks (wall T 0.95m) with hammer-dressed quoins. A narrow lintelled loop is visible in the SW wall at first-floor level. The tower appears to have projected to the SW from the SW angle of the tower house (max. projection 2.3m) and does not appear to have contained a stairs. (O'Keeffe 1985-6, 408-17) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD006-017 Field system
  Description

  Covering a roughly rectangular area (dims. L c. 450m E-W; Wth c. 280m N-S) in fairly level, wet pasture, bisected by a small S-flowing stream which separates a medieval church (KD006-003----) and graveyard (KD006-003001-) to the SW from a tower house (KD006-004----) to the NE. The remains to the E of the stream, around the castle, comprise a rectangular area (dims. L c. 70m E-W; Wth c. 55m) defined along the S and at the SW corner by a low, broad, earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int H 0.4m; ext H 1m) and a wide, shallow, outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4-1m) which is crossed mid-way along it's length by an earthen causeway (Wth 4m). A shallow, roughly circular pond (diam c. 12m; D 0.5m) occurs at WSW and is fed from the N by a meandering fosse/drain (Wth 4m; D 1-1.5m) which forms the W limits and which angles sharply E at NW and continues in a straight line E to meet a more modern earthen field boundary which runs N-S and forms the E limits of the site. Traces of low, narrow cultivation ridges (Wth 1.4m; H 0.10-0.15m) with narrow furrows (Wth 0.3-0.4m) running N-S survive in the N-third of the pastured interior, while to the S, similar but more denuded ridges run E-W. Abutting the external SW corner and sharing the main field's fosse at SE and along the S is a smaller rectangular area (dims. L c. 20m E-W; Wth c. 14m) defined along the W by a narrow, shallow fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m) and along the N by a low scarp (ext H 0.5m) with lower, wetter ground outside. The interior also contains low, narrow cultivation ridges running N-S. Immediately W of this small field is the low platform marking the levelled portion of the tower house and just beyond to the W there is a small sub-rectangular enclosure (dims. L c. 10m N-S; Wth c. 8m) abutting the S-flowing stream at W and defined along N, E and S by a low earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; H 0.4-0.6m). Across the stream, to the W, the remains survive to the W of the church and graveyard and comprise a long, gently curving chord of fosse (possibly the remains of an ecclesiastical enclosure?), (L c. 93m NE-SW; Wth 4m; D 0.5m) which abuts the stream at its N end and which is truncated by a low WNW-ESE scarp (H 0.6m) at the S end. Mid way along its length a similar fosse runs E to the graveyard wall while near its N end a low scarp (H 0.5m) runs SE towards the church, immediately N of which is a low, oval earthen mound (diams. 10m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE; H 0.3-0.5m) defined by a scarp. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Confey, 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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_2969 (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 Confey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Confey · Confaí

Area

3,835,597 m² (383.56 ha, 947.8 acres)

Civil parish

Confey, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Leixlip, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,755 people lived in 5,741 households in the Leixlip electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenswood (Co. Dublin), Allenswood, Cullaghreeva, Hilltown (Co. Meath), Jarretstown, Jarretstown (Co. Meath), Kellystown, Leixlip, Moor of Meath (Co. Meath), Newtown, Rathleek (Co. Meath), Sion, St. Catherine's, St. Catherine's Park (Co. Dublin), St. Catherine's Park

Placenames

Confey 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.