Nicholastown

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Nicholastown, from 186 m² to 487,985 m² (48.8 ha, 120.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Nicholastown 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.

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  for 2 no agricultural sheds

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25155

• 12 Sept 2025N/a

  Retention permission for the material change of use of part of an existing farmyard for the sales and temporary storage of farm machinery (mainly tractors), retention permission for existing replacement farm machinery building currently used as farm machinery showroom, workshop and agri sales preparation area at ground floor level, retention of ancillary office at first floor level, retention of existing site boundary fencing along the R418 road and retention permission for seasonal vehicular entrance onto R418 asconstructed and all associated site works. Permission for upgrading of existing entrance

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561047

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  for the material change of use of part of an existing farmyard for the sales and temporary storage of farm machinery (mainly tractors), retention permission for existing replacement farm machinery building currently used as farm machinery showroom, workshop and agri sales preparation area at ground floor level, retention of ancillary office at first floor level, retention of existing site boundary fencing along the R418 road and retention permission for seasonal vehicular entrance onto R418 asconstructed and all associated site works. Permission for upgrading of existing entrance

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561036

• 8 Sept 2025N/a

  Retention permission for the material change of use of part of an existing farmyard for the sales and temporary storage of farm machinery (mainly tractors), retention permission for existing replacement farm machinery building currently used as farm machinery showroom, workshop and agri sales preparation area at ground floor level, retention of ancillary office at first floor level, retention of existing site boundary fencing along the R418 road and retention permission for seasonal vehicular entrance onto R418 asconstructed and all associated site works. Permission for upgrading of existing entrance

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561026

• 3 Sept 2025N/a

  for 2 no agricultural sheds

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25150

• 16 Nov 2024N/a

  for the material change of use of part of an existing farmyard for the sales and temporary storage of farm machinery (mainly tractors), retention permission for existing replacement farm machinery building currently used as farm machinery showroom, workshop and sales preparation area at ground floor level, retention of ancillary office at first floor level, retention of existing site boundary fencing along the r418 road and retention permission for seasonal vehicular entrance onto r418 asconstructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2461209

• 18 Sept 2023Conditional

  for an agricultural shed

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23902

• 28 Oct 2022Conditional

  an extension to the side of existing dwelling and the conversion of an attic space to habitable use with additional velux windows to the rear. Planning Permission is also sought for an extension to connect the existing dwelling to the existing adjacent garage and conversion of said garage to domestic use, connection to onsite services and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 221292

• 17 May 2021Conditional

  for a bungalow, recessed residential entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21672

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  an agricultural shed

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201568

• 11 Dec 2020N/a

  an agricultural shed,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201521

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 Nicholastown.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-036 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (KD035-036001-). Described in Archbishop Bulkeley’s Visitation of Dublin, 1630, ‘Nicholston. The church and chauncell are ruinous, the land waste, and noe body livith on it.’ (Ronan 1941b, 94). A ruined rectangular structure (traceable L 11m E-W; Wth 4.8m N-S) defined mainly by grassed-over wall footings. A short section of the S wall still stands (L 3.6m; T 0.55m; H 1m), built of randomly coursed mortared limestone rubble masonry, and the external NE angle survives (H0.5m) incorporated into a later burial plot. The interior is disturbed by burials. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2013

• KD035-036001 Graveyard
  Description

  On a low knoll in tillage. A large rectangular area (c. 70m ENE-WSW; c. 40m NNW-SSE) which was extended E-wards in modern times is enclosed by a stone wall (H 1.5m). Legible gravemarkers date from the 19th-century to the present, the graveyard being still in use. A ruined church (KD035-036----) lies NW of centre. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2013

• KD035-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level tillage. According to Fitzgerald (1899-1902g, 132-3), ‘”Rahdroo” – This was the name of a small circular rath which stood by the roadside … John Butler, the last sovereign of Athy demolished it.’ Visible on a 2005 OSi Orthophoto as the cropmark of a fosse enclosing a circular area (est. diam. c. 40m). When upstanding, the monument was apparently avoided by a later road which bends SW-W-NW around it. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2013

• KD035-038 Burial ground
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 12 (1968), CUCAP BDH 71 (1970) and Barrett GB90.BT.23 (1990)) as the soilmark of a small uncultivated area forming the NE corner of a larger rectangular area (est. L c. 65m ESE-WNW; c. 45m NNE-SSW) defined by the cropmark of a fosse. Regarded locally as being a burial ground. While the field has recently been levelled, the reputed burial site is still visible at ground level as slight stony rise. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 December 2013

• KD035-060 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.03) shows the cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (with an entrance facing SE) defined by a fosse and with a rectangular annexe at N. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-061 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.05) shows an irregular enclosure (with entrance facing SW) defined by a single fosse. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-062 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.04) shows the cropmark of a single ring-ditch. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-074 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BT.23) shows the cropmark of a small ring-ditch. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-079 Enclosure
  Description

  First recorded in August 1995 by Dr. Gillian Barrett in the course of an aerial photographic survey. Aerial photograph (GB95.FT.36) shows the cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Nicholastown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2506 (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 Nicholastown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Nicholastown · Baile Niocláis

Area

3,883,856 m² (388.39 ha, 959.72 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Grangemellon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

647 people lived in 227 households in the Grangemellon electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullane, Bray Lower, Burtown Big, Dollardstown, Grangerosnolvan, Grangerosnolvan Lower, Grangerosnolvan Upper, Irishtown, Leinsterlodge

Placenames

Nicholastown 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.