Ardrass Lower

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardrass Lower, from 83 m² to 250,278 m² (25.03 ha, 61.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ardrass Lower 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.

• 17 Sept 2026N/a

  a detached dormer bungalow house, single storey domestic garage, installation of a secondary effluent treatment system, access via existing entrance and right of way and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2661031

• 18 Feb 2026Conditional

  façade amendments to existing single storey detached house as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660152

• 7 Jul 2025Refused

  for a) retention permission for existing recessed entrance as constructed with permission to amend entrance to combined family shared entrance. b) permission for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560752

• 28 Jan 2025Refused

  for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560064

• 20 Jan 2025N/a

  for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560034

• 14 Dec 2024N/a

  for the construction of a single storey bungalow with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461343

• 30 Nov 2024N/a

  for the construction of a single storey bungalows with single storey domestic garage and secondary effluent treatment system, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461274

• 11 Sept 2024Conditional

  for a solar farm development with an operational lifespan of 40 years comprising the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows on a site of circa 47.44 hectares, a single storey onsite 38kV substation with compound, with two number single storey storage containers, 25 number invertor stations, ducting and underground electrical cabling, perimeter fencing, 23 number mounted CCTV cameras, provision of a new access from the L5066 / Killadoon Road, provision of internal access tracks, and all associated site development and landscaping works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 24291

• 5 Aug 2024Refused

  for the construction of a family cluster of two single storey bungalows with single storey domestic garages and secondary effluent treatment systems, permission for access roadway and shared existing family entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2460751

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  construction of a single storey bungalow, secondary effluent treatment system, utilisation of existing family recessed entrance, detached single storey domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23938

• 14 Jul 2023Conditional

  the extension of the operational lifespan of the permitted solar pv development by An Bord Pleanála under Ref. ABP-303636-19 (Kildare County Council Planning Ref. 18/250) from 25 no. years as permitted (by reason of condition no. 3 of permission Ref. ABP-303636-19) to 40 years

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360037

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  for single storey side extension to front element of original cottage as constructed, Retention of existing detached single storey domestic garage as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23379

• 30 Jun 2021N/a

  a fenced dog run area for the public access of exercising dogs and all ancillary site works to include driveway from existing entrance

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21954

• 27 Apr 2021N/a

  The development will consist of an enclosed (fenced) area of one acre and associated groundworks for public access for the purpose of dogs exercising.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21569

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the removal of existing roof of existing single storey detached bungalow with a new higher replacement roof, demolition of existing single storey extensions (side and rear) to existing bungalow, permission to construct a one and half storey and two storey extension to the side and rear of existing bungalow, replacement of existing septic tank with secondary effluent treatment system, relocation of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201411

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  a 10 year permission (to construct development) for a solar farm comprising: the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows on a site of C.47.44 hectares, a single storey onsite 38kV substation with compound, with 2 no single storey storage containers, 25 no. invertor stations , ducting & underground electrical cabling, perimeter fencing, 23.no mounted CCTV Cameras, provision of a new access from the L5066/Killadoon Road, provision of internal access tracks, and all associated site development and landscaping works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18250

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 Ardrass Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD011-005 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a short, gentle, E-facing pasture slope. Visible on aerial photographs (GSI 467, 468) as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing an oval area (est. max. diams. c. 70m N-S; c. 40m E-W), but not visible at ground level. The morphology and siting suggest that it may have been a ringfort, some sub-surface remains of which may survive intact. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-015 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  On level mixed pasture and tillage at the E foot of St. Patrick's Hill (OD 308') and partially overlain at N by a farmyard. There is a 'saint's bed' (KD011-036----) c. 250m to the W and a holy well (KD014-024----) c. 300m to the WNW, both dedicated to St Patrick. The remains comprise a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD011-015002-), which contains a possible graveyard (KD011-015003-) and 'St Patrick's Church', a fine medieval building (KD011-015001-). This closely associated group of monuments, most named for St Patrick, suggests that there may have been an early monastic site here. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-015001 Church
  Description

  In the care of Kildare County Council. A 15th century church, 'considerably restored' in 1888 (Harbison 1992, 186). Stands in a possible graveyard (KD011-015003-) near the centre of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD011-015002-), on the site of a possible early Christian monastery (KD011-015----). This fine rectangular structure (int. dims. L 7.6m E-W; Wth 3.35m N-S; wall T 0.85m) is built of thin, roughly coursed flagstones and has a fine flagstone roof carried on a pointed vault (int. H 4.6m) which has traces of wickerwork centring. String-courses project from the tops of the N and S sidewalls. The entrance doorway (Wth 0.95m; H 1.55m) near the W end of the S wall is pointed-arched with chamfered jambs and is set in a gently splaying embrasure with a flat rere-arch. There is a deep barring-slot hole on the E side of the doorway with a corresponding, but shallow, socket hole opposite. The building is lit by four windows; a single light ogee-head at the E end of the S wall; a double-splayed loop at the centre of the W gable wall; and a twin-light ogee-head at the centre of the E gable wall, with a small rectangular window above which lit a loft carried on shallow set-backs on the E and W gable walls. There are four small rectangular aumbries in the S wall and a piscina recess at the E end of the N wall. Two small square columns on the apex of the W gable are the remains of a bell-cote, and a small square ope in the roof allowed the bell-rope into the building. The church is now enclosed by iron railings [standing only 0.8m outside the walls] during the erection of which a possible graveyard (KD011-015003-) was uncovered. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-015002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  A large circular area (max. diam. c. 100m) is defined by a low, curving scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) traceable intermittently NNW-E-S, the line of which is respected for the rest of it's course S-W-NNW by a curving road. A farmyard occupies the N portion of the interior. A medieval church (KD011-015001-) stands near the centre of the enclosure which also contains a possible graveyard (KD011-015003-). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD011-015003 Graveyard
  Description

  Near the centre of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD011-015002-) which also contains a fine 15th century church (KD011-015001-). Burials were uncovered when railings were erected around the church in 1888 (OMURETHI 1909-11, 410-14). There are no visible graves or burial markers. 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 Ardrass Lower.

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 Ardrass Lower, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2868 (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 Ardrass Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ardrass Lower

Area

952,482 m² (95.25 ha, 235.36 acres)

Civil parish

Killadoon, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Celbridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,066 people lived in 5,350 households in the Celbridge electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrass Upper, Barberstown, Barberstown Lower, Killadoon, Killeenlea, Posseckstown

Placenames

Ardrass Lower 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.