A (ii) Settlement Types 22.1.4 Settlement Types Medieval settlement patterns Mediaeval Boroughs in County Kildare The County’s proximity to Dublin has exercised a major influence on Ardee, Ardscull, Athy, Ballymore Eustace, Carbury, Castledermot, Introduction settlement from as far back as medieval times, with the creation of Clane, Cloncurry, Dunfert, Glassely, Kildare, Kilkea, Leixlip, Moone, The settlement structure in County Kildare has its own particular the County at the end of the 13th century and its subsequent Mounmohenek, Naas, Narraghmoore, Oughterard, Rathangan, qualities, based on the landscape characteristics, the impact of settlement. Kildare became the dominant town, but there were 22 Rathmore, Straffan, Tipper history and the localised traditions of agriculture and rural activity. boroughs in all created in the county, many of them small manorial This report is concerned primarily with the legacy of several periods villages, a good number of which are no longer in existence. Narraghmore village centre in the last millennium, in which a weak and dispersed settlement However, the tradition of urban settlement and the market town structure has developed. There is an opportunity to strengthen the was established by the Anglo-Normans, and the urban settlement fragile network of villages and to conserve the best qualities of the structure was initiated. Kildare landscape. Church and motte at Rathmore Multi-functional, traditional building. Pub, shop and house at cross roads, Kildoon Kildare County Development Plan 2005-2011, Volume 2 155 ought ous. The canal br osper , at Pr raghmore and Johnstown. raghmore om Manchester The great estates of County Kildare supported and strengthened estates of County Kildare The great the associated towns - Castletown and Celbridge, Carton and villages such as and landlord Maynooth and Monasterevin Brannockstown, Nar Industrial enterprise, also made an impact on the settlement his own industrial village, for created Robert Brooke structure. dyeing cottons fr with it the new village of Robertstown. Prosperous - industrial village created in 1780 by Robert Brooke. Robertstown: Grand Canal Village. Example of a building in need of repair Mary Leadbetter’s House in Ballitore restored - market house Mary Leadbetter’s Ballitore - Main square Restored Shaker store in Ballitore 2005-2011, Volume 2 2005-2011, Volume een is typical of the seventeenth century plantation id-sixteen hundreds, was not as strong in Kildare, which already in Kildare, was not as strong id-sixteen hundreds, ounties of Leix (Laois) and Offaly. However there are two late are However there ounties of Leix (Laois) and Offaly. had an established urban infrastructure, as it was in the adjacent had an established urban infrastructure, c is a there where seventeenth century Quaker villages, at Ballitore; and meeting house, and at TimahoeQuaker burial ground where the triangular gr villages. Plantation and Landlord Villages, 17th/18th Century Plantation and Landlord times, in the The impact of plantation settlement in Cromwellian m Kildare County Development Plan Kildare Ballitore - Early eighteenth century house on the edge of the village Ballitore Village: a Quaker settlement first settled in the late seventeenth, Ballitore Village: early eighteenth century 156 Chapter 22 Kildare Rural Design and Development Guidelines Chapter 22 Kildare Rural Design and Development Guidelines 157 2005-2011, Volume 2 2005-2011, Volume Kildare County Development Plan Kildare d na Móna village , throughout this period helped to create or strengthen this period helped to create , throughout a Móna settlement of Coill Dubh (Blackwood) which was built as ommunity in an area remote from urban facilities. from remote ommunity in an area focal points for the rural communities. In Kildare, the pattern focal points for the rural communities. In Kildare, of development during this period outside the towns has left a of rural housing, especially in the bogland and dispersed structure Local authority and Land Commission houses are low-lying areas. divided and as large farms were dotted along the small roads, cottages and labourer’s the West, allocated to migrant farmer from built to serve the larger farms. were Settlement in the 20th Century A long period of population decline and stagnation in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth is not associated with further development of the patterns of village is a notable exception in the Bord there In County Kildare, growth. n a an estate village with facilities such as shops to help to create c dance halls, schools, pubs and shops, The location of creameries, however Coill Dubh, (Blackwood):Bor Chapel Villages the newly-constructed At the beginning of the nineteenth century, some sixteen chapels into the Catholic parish system introduced generating new village nuclei, or of County Kildare, rural structure Allenwood developed as a existing centres. strengthening and also benefited to Edenderry, coaching village along the road the village of Similarly, the location of a chapel there. from found new heart with the construction of its church Prosperous along the same route. Prosperous - new focal point generated on the main road with the building of a Catholic chapel in 1830 Coill Dubh, new Credit Union building: a fresh architectural approach in a rural context. (Architects; Hassett and Ducatez) Calverstown - new village housing New houses inserted behind Main Street, Kilmeague New shop in Kilmeague Suncroft 2005-2011, Volume 2 2005-2011, Volume owing counties in Ireland in the last decade and owing counties in Ireland ublin with the west and south of the country. Growth has been Growth ublin with the west and south of the country. emand for housing, stretching over large areas of the County, over large areas emand for housing, stretching Sustained Growth over the Last Two Decades over the Last Two Sustained Growth essentially in the The last phase of development in County Kildare, last 20 years has seen substantial changes to the urban and rural car in mobility through The enormous growth settlement structures. ownership has opened the County for metropolitan-generated d the principal radial lines of communication linking from outwards D to a certain extent since the 1960s by planning policies, controlled by clearly recently and more favouring locations in built-up areas, was towns and villages. Kildare development towards directing one of the fastest gr pattern is expected to continue. the strong of growth Kildare County Development Plan Kildare New local authority housing at Prosperous 158 Chapter 22 Kildare Rural Design and Development Guidelines Chapter 22 Kildare Rural Design and Development Guidelines 159 2005-2011, Volume 2 2005-2011, Volume Kildare County Development Plan Kildare Old pavement and new shop in Kilmeague New development at Calverstown Advertising new development at Calverstown ontext, 11 villages were identified, where consolidation, not identified, where ontext, 11 villages were ustainability through limited growth is proposed; a further eight is proposed; limited growth ustainability through The proposed settlement pattern is the The proposed to deal with this growth identification of primary (Naas - Newbridge - Kilcullen) and and Athy). The Monasterevin, (Kildare centres secondary growth but rather in terms seen, not as the focus for growth, are rural areas of dealing with essential local, rural needs for new housing. In this c their strengthening another 17 villages where is preferred; growth s encouragement of population through revitalisation villages where development and 14 rural nodes, where is proposed; growth listed in chapter The villages are limited to local need is proposed. 6, volume 1. New isolated development near Ballyshannon, N78.