Woodlands West

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodlands West, from 220 m² to 548,496 m² (54.85 ha, 135.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Woodlands West 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.

• 1 Aug 2024Conditional

  for a new two story extension to the rear of an existing cottage, upgrades to existing onsite waste water treatment system and new percolation area including all associate site and landscaping works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of a revised site plan, plans & elevations and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460743

• 31 Jul 2024N/a

  for the construction of a new two story extension to the rear of an existing cottage, upgrades to existing onsite waste water treatment system and new percolation area including all associate site and landscaping works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460731

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD040-001 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown as a circular enclosure on the 1837 OS 6-inch map (max diam. c. 45m). Low rise at end of slight ridge is probably due to the former presence of monument. Probably a ringfort site. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-059 Enclosure
  Description

  First recorded in August 1991 in an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett. Aerial photographs (GB91.EL.07 and 08) show the cropmarks of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by two widely spaced fosses. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011

• KD040-065 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.20) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch, located immediately south-east of an enclosure (KK040—001). Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD040-066 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GE.24) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Woodlands House, farm house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1880, retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch, single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to south-west and single-bay single-storey lean-to return to rear to north-west. Extended, c.1970, comprising single-bay two-storey return to rear to north-west. Gable-ended roof with slate (lean-to to return). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Glazed roof to porch. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills (concrete to additional return). 1/1 timber sash windows (timber casement windows to additional return). Fixed-pane windows to porch. Square-headed door opening. Glazed timber door. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds.Detached eight-bay single-storey coursed granite outbuilding, c.1880, to north-west. Reroofed, c.1970. Gable-ended roof. Replacement red clay pantile, c.1970. Clay ridge tiles. Yellow brick eaves course. Coursed snecked granite walls. Square-headed openings (some in style of slit openings). Cut-stone sills. Cut-granite lintels. Pair of square-headed integral carriageways with cut-granite lintels on cut-granite pier. Timber fittings.Detached six-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1880, to north-west originally single-storey. Renovated, c.1940, with first floor added. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1940. Iron ridge tiles. Coursed snecked granite walls to ground floor. Mass concrete walls, c.1940, to first floor. Square-headed openings (including door opening to first floor). Cut-stone lintels to ground floor. Timber fittings.

• Water pump, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1905, comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with fluted spout having acanthus leaf motif and 'cow-tail' handle having ball finial. Now disused with cap missing. Road fronted on a concrete base on grass verge.

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 Woodlands West, 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_2577 (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 Woodlands West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Woodlands West

Area

1,577,107 m² (157.71 ha, 389.71 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Castledermot, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,853 people lived in 664 households in the Castledermot electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Halfmiletown, Hallahoise, Johnstown North, Johnstown South, Prumpelstown Lower, Woodlands East

Placenames

Woodlands West 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.