Kildangan

149 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildangan, from 10 m² to 427,609 m² (42.76 ha, 105.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Kildangan, Kildare · 124 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Kildangan, Kildare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Kildangan, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Kildangan, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Serviced Sites (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Kildangan, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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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 Kildangan.

Recorded monuments

• KD027-015 Enclosure
  Description

  In a narrow roadside plantation, named ‘Philip’s Wood’ on the OS 25-inch map (http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,667271,707022,6,9 accessed 31 August 2012). Shown on an estate map (1788-1839) by Longfield and Brownrigg (NLI Ms 21.F.37, 131-171, Map 150) as a circular enclosure containing trees. The 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map shows an unenclosed tree copse at the location. Visible as a low circular platform (diam. 31m; H 0.6m) which rises slightly towards the centre and is surrounded by a shallow fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.2m). Possibly a designed landscape feature. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-016 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  According to Bence-Jones (1978, 166) the present ‘Kildangan House’, dating to 1882-6, and in the Victorian-Jacobean style, stands on the site of an earlier castle which had square corner towers, and which was dynamited in 1882. The castle was originally in the possession of a branch of the Fitzgerald family. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 379) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-017 Church
  Description

  Shown, in a graveyard (KD027-017001-), on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a roofed rectangular structure (est. c. 16m ENE-WSW; c. 6m NNW-SSE). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-017001 Graveyard
  Description

  A rectangular area (c. 65m E-W; max. c. 50m N-S) amidst the out-buildings at ‘Kildangan House’. The interior rises slightly towards the centre and burials date from the 18th to the 20th-century. There is no visible trace of the church (KD027-017----) shown in the interior on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KD027-046 Burial
  Description

  In 1987 human remains were discovered during excavations for development works in Kildangan Stud. Subsequent investigation by NMI staff uncovered the surviving W-half of a rectangular pit (dims. L 1.1m E-W; Wth 0.7m) which contained the extended inhumation of a young adult female. A sample of bone was submitted for AMS dating and yielded a date of 1610±45 BP, which corresponds to the period 342-555 AD. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 2, 51-4) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 26 October 2012

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Our Lady of Victories, church/chapel, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, dated 1792, on a cruciform plan originally single-cell comprising three-bay double-height nave (originally four-bay) with lancet-arch openings and single-bay double-height chancel to west. Renovated and extended, c.1870, with three-bay double-height transepts added to north and to south having single-bay single-storey recessed porches to north and to south, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower added to east having canted bay to south-east and broach spire. Renovated internally, c.1970, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to chancel. Gable-ended roofs (on a cruciform plan) with slate (conical to canted bay to tower). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with finials to some gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Cut-stone broach spire to entrance tower. Flat-roof to additional porch. Bitumen felt. Roughcast walls. Painted. Cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners and stepped buttresses. Cut-sandstone date stone/plaque. Cut-limestone upper stage to tower with clasping buttresses. Lancet-arch window openings. Stone sills (chamfered to porches and to tower with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds; hood moulding over to tower). Traceried diamond-leaded timber windows. Pointed-arch door opening to tower. Cut-stone doorcase. Square-headed door openings to porches. Cut-stone shouldered doorcases. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Full-height interior renovated, c.1970. Timber pews. Timber wainscoting. Tongue-and-groove timber panelling to chancel. Flat plaster ceiling. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site. Tarmacadam forecourt to front. Freestanding belfry, c.1870, to south-east comprising four cast-iron piers with bell over having original mechanisms.

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 Kildangan, about 1 in 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kildangan.

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 Kildangan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Kildangan · Cill Daingin

Area

4,090,603 m² (409.06 ha, 1,010.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kildangan, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Kildangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

736 people lived in 239 households in the Kildangan electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygreany, Clonegath, Duneany, Fasagh, Harristown Upper, Kilbeg, Oghil, Rickardstown Lower, Rickardstown Upper

Placenames

Kildangan 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.