Kilmainham

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmainham, from 27 m² to 243,514 m² (24.35 ha, 60.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilmainham 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.

• 24 Feb 2026Conditional

  (A) demolish existing agricultural sheds, and (B) the construction of a new agricultural shed adjoining an existing building, including all associate site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660100

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  1. construct an extension to the front of the existing clubhouse to accommodate a new gym area, 2. alterations to the external and internal arrangements of the building to accommodate the new gym, 3. construct a training ball wall with a fenced enclosure with flood lighting, together with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2573

• 21 Aug 2025N/a

  1. construct an extension to the front of the existing clubhouse to accommodate a new gym area, 2. alterations to the external and internal arrangements of the building to accommodate the new gym, 3. construct a training ball wall with a fenced enclosure with flood lighting, together with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2568

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  to retain a mobile home on the site for the duration of construction of dwelling house and will consist of permission for the construction of a dwelling house, entrance and wastewater treatment system; and all associated ancillary facilities, works and services.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460701

• 11 Oct 2024N/a

  The development consists of retention permission of a mobile home for the duration of construction of dwelling house and will consist of permission for the construction of a dwelling house, entrance and wastewater treatment system; and all associated ancillary facilities, works and services.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460605

• 3 Oct 2023Conditional

  construct dwelling house, detached garage/shed, waste water treatment system, new entrance, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360411

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  construct a new steel shed and associated site works at the rear of property

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2391

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  construct a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22638

• 6 Apr 2022Conditional

  construct an extension and renovation of existing cottage, new septic tank, decommission existing septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22202

• 2 Dec 2021Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, bored well, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21826

• 30 Nov 2021N/a

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, bored well, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21818

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  construction of detached domestic garage/shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21313

• 10 Feb 2021Conditional

  (a) construct a dwelling house, detached domestic garage / shed, septic tank, percolation area, (b) erect temporary log cabin (to be used as temporary living accommodation until the dwelling house has been constructed), and all associated site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 2173

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  construct a storey and a half extension to dwelling, alterations to existing façade, upgrade of septic tank and percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19402

• 18 Jun 2019Conditional

  construct a shop unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19347

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  construct an extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18754

• 23 Aug 2018N/a

  extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18525

• 25 Jul 2018Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the south/rear of the existing school building, consisting of 2 number of new resource rooms, hallway and external ramp together with all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18447

• 19 Jul 2018N/a

  construct a single storey extension to the south/rear of the existing school building, consisting of 2 number of new resource rooms, hallway and external ramp together with all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18431

• 10 Apr 2017Conditional

  retain demolition and reconstruction of a dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17171

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 Kilmainham.

Recorded monuments

• LA008-003 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  Unclassified monastic establishment (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 369) also known as Triogue. Built of poorly coursed limestone rubble, remains consist of E gable of church (max. dims. 20.60m E-W, 5.50m N-S) with only the foundation level of its other walls surviving. A barrel-vaulted building (max. dims. 7.30m N-S, 5.30m E-W) attached to S wall of nave. Simple slit ope with glazing-bar-holes visible in E gable, which apparently was 'trefoil headed' (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 194). Probably a late-medieval parish church (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 180; Vol II, 587; JKAS 1904, Vol IV, 194) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA008-003002 Graveyard
  Description

  Unclassified monastic establishment (Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 369) also called Triogue, probably an Abbey. Built with poorly coursed limestone rubble, remains consist of E gable of church (LA008-003-) with foundation level of its other walls and barrel-vaulted building attached to S wall of nave. Simple slit ope with glazing holes in E gable which apparently was 'trefoil headed' ogee headed (?) (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 194). Present remains are probably of a late-medieval parish church. (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1981 Vol 1, 180; Vol II, 587; JKAS 1904, Vol IV, 194). Church located in N quadrant of rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 81m N-S; 68m E-W). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2164 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilmainham with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilmainham · Cill Mhaighneann

Area

1,902,513 m² (190.25 ha, 470.12 acres)

Civil parish

Ardea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Shaen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shaen electoral division: 1,001 people in 326 households; 95% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Clonterry, Dangans, Debicot, Killeen or Killeenlynagh, Kilnacash, Knightstown or Ballinriddery, Strahard

Placenames

Kilmainham 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.