Planning register

Kilcullen

Planning applications inside the Kilcullen, Co. Kildare settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications: 133
County: Kildare

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Kilcullen contains a total of 133 applications, with 15 lodged in 2023, 7 in 2024, and 17 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been an 86% grant rate out of 103 applications, with 89 granted, 14 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 33%, retentions at 17%, new dwellings at 13%, and housing estates at 9%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include a demolition of a single-storey porch extension, a demolition of an existing workshop building, a storey-and-a-half extension to the rear of a creche, the amalgamation of offices with a ground floor shop unit, and part storey-and-a-half, part single storey dwellings.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Grant rate

86%

of 103 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 89
Refused: 14
No decision recorded: 30

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Extension: 33%
Retention: 17%
New dwelling: 13%
Housing estate: 9%
Infrastructure: 8%
Change of use: 7%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Kilcullen, 2016–2026.

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Extension	94%	35	95%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

'16

'17

'18

'19

'20

'21

'22

'23

'24

'25

Grant rate, by year of decision

'16

'17

'18

'19

'20

'21

'22

'23

'24

'25

Recently lodged in Kilcullen

Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.