Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Maynooth

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

Applications
669
County
Kildare

What the data shows

The planning register for Maynooth contains a total of 669 applications, with 507 applications granted, refused, or part-granted since 2016. Within those decided applications, the grant rate stands at 89%, representing 451 granted, 56 refused, and 0 part-granted applications. The most common development types are extensions at 41%, retention at 12%, change of use at 9%, and new dwellings at 8%. Recent application activity shows 44 lodged in 2023, 78 lodged in 2024, and 81 lodged in 2025, with recent approvals including student accommodation units, a Large-Scale Residential Development, site subdivision, and various extensions.

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

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

89%

of 507 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
451
Refused
56
No decision recorded
162

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

What’s being built

Extension
41%
Retention
12%
Change of use
9%
New dwelling
8%
Alterations
8%
Commercial
6%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension99%20495%
Retention81%5290%
Change of use89%4588%
Alterations93%4392%
Commercial84%3188%
New dwelling65%3182%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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.

Appeals to An Bord Pleanála

16%

of 45 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2016–2026.

Permissions refused on appeal
3% of 30
Decision upheld
30
Upheld, conditions varied
8

7 of 45 decided appeals reversed the council either way. Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided. Appeals are self-selected — only decisions someone chose to challenge appear here — so this is a record of appealed cases, not a measure of the council’s decisions overall.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Maynooth

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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.