New housing developments in Maynooth

Hearing is fine. House is well insulated though so that might be key. It's nowhere near as bad as it was 3 or 4 year ago.

To say you can hear trains and motorway noise from Moyglare Hall isn't believable. I spend a lot of time up there and can tell you that's not true.

Same here I live in Moyglare Hall and the noise of the motorway is definitely audible, particularly on a calm night. It's not disturbing but you can hear it along with the trains at the station you can hear the driver sound the horn as he pulls off and the engines rev up for departure.

I actually dread the works for that starting as any railway type works occurring at night are audible all over the town particularly rail grinding and vegetation control!

OH....... really? is not in the Gov 2030 planning ( or whatever its called) :(

Construction is due to start next year, should be finished by 2025 I think.

Just curious how do you know that's the council?

This is one of my bugbears, council buying expensive houses to give to those on the social welfare.

Makes much more sense to buy 2/3 houses in a cheaper location for council/social welfare folk than one in a new nice estate.

Was looking at whats out there in Maynooth (coming from Dublin) but as someone has alluded to - Maynooth is like Dublin prices.

Very depressing seeing the price of houses.

The way you know is on the property price register, it is shown as not having gone through for full market value - see screenshot:

Also the propertypriceregister.ie excludes the VAT correct! But the website I use adds the VAT in, propertypriceregisterireland.com so €293,782 is actually total, depressingly enough.

I've been speaking to a few friends local enough to area and two local estate agents, apparently they are massively struggling now to get footfall for houses given the unprecedented surge in pricing and people being quite nervous with economy/future of market. With offices opening back up, more and more people are realising that there no longer is a benefit or pricing advantage to buying in this commuter area. One estate agent even told me off record that they are encouraging sellers to accept offers quickly even if it's not as high as they anticipated given the incoming interest rate jumps, market and backlog for mortgage approvals

Not saying what you said is not true, far from it, but that sounds crazy to me. Remote working is here to stay and even if it was to return I would have the view that Maynooth is and should still be a highly desirable area to buy / live in.

my mistake, construction due to start in 2024, fully operational in 2029:

I believe the problem is that there is only a single track through Kilcock, so expanding it (or even increasing capacity of existing services) would probably require CPOing land along the existing railway line to make space to install a second track, as well as significant work at the station/Shaws bridge.

The double track stops just outside Maynooth, hence most trains stopping there. It turns back into a double track on the Enfield side of Kilcock.

2029 would give ample time to get that done though I'd have thought...

Is there much of a benefit to Maynooth residents? The trains already run every 20 mins approximately.

The issue is the lack of direct express transport to Dublin city, there should be an express bus and trains each day.