Skenagun

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skenagun, from 57 m² to 252,718 m² (25.27 ha, 62.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Castledermot, Kildare · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Castledermot, Kildare · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Castledermot, Kildare · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Castledermot, Kildare · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Castledermot, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Castledermot, Kildare · 1 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 Skenagun 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 the townland of Skenagun.

Recorded monuments

• KD038-045001 Religious house - Fratres Cruciferi
  Description

  National Monument No. 503. The Priory and Hospital of St John the Baptist. The only visible remains consist of a square tower (dims 4.5m x 4.5m) on a narrow plinth. The structure is of roughly coursed mixed stone, chiefly granite, with smaller limestone and sandstone pinnings, and with granite quoins and jambs. There are three floors with a barrel vault over the first floor. It is entered through the N wall, through a segmented doorway with a pointed rear arch, and with dressed voussoirs. Access to the first floor is via ladder, and access to the second floor is from the exterior through a narrow rounded arched doorway. The function of the tower is unknown. Comerford records the discovery of an underground vaulted chamber 'some few perches' to the NW of the tower in the late nineteenth century, possibly a souterrain (1891-5, 372). Bones have been found recently to the S of the tower. There is a small limestone grave slab in a nearby garden. The origins of the priory origins are obscure, but the earliest reference to it is in 1284 (Sweetman 1875-86, ii, no. 2340). It was described in the Dissolution documents as roofless and ruined (White 1943, 168), and was described in 1539 as consisting of a church, belfrey, dormitory, tower, two halls, three chambers, land and a water mill (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 211). (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 2, 125-7) Date of upload: 15 September 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 183/1948).

• KD038-045003 Graveslab
  Description

  Limestone fragment (dims. L 0.25m; Wth 0.15m; T 0.05m) with traces of a design in low relief and an incised line, perhaps a letter. Found in Mrs. Daltons garden (the owner of the lands on which the priory and tower (KD038-045001-) lie. (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 2, 115) Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-078 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 25/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 28 May 2019

Architectural heritage

• Outbuilding, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1750. Renovated, c.1980, with opening remodelled to right forming double-height square-headed integral carriageway. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rainwater goods now gone from cut-stone eaves course. Coursed snecked rubble granite walls. Square-headed window opening. No sill. Cut-granite lintel. Fittings now gone. Square-headed door opening to left ground floor. Cut-granite lintel. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980. Double-height square-headed integral carriageway inserted, c.1980, to right with cast-iron lintel. No fittings. Road fronted with rear (west) elevation fronting on to road. Part overgrown grounds to site.

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 Skenagun, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2576 (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 Skenagun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Skenagun

Area

906,504 m² (90.65 ha, 224 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Graney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

803 people lived in 274 households in the Graney electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvass, Castledermot, Coolane, Garterfarm, Hallahoise, Hobartstown East, Hobartstown West, Saintjohns

Placenames

Skenagun 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.