New housing developments in Maynooth

The turn onto Meadbrook link road could be improved if they put a box that cars could drive up into to prepare for the light going green, similar to the one if you're on the main street outside BOI about to turn right towards the Glenroyal bridge/Straffan Road.
By the time some people realise the light has gone green, get int gear, then drive up and right, half the time is often already gone.
If I'm first in the queue to turn right, and the green light goes for the "straight-ahead" lane, I'll drive up a few metres, past the white line, to be ready for the right-turn filter light to go green and hopefully get a few more cars through in time.

The green light for right-turn from the link road towards the M4 could do with being five seconds longer too. It's green for less than 10s, and if someone isn't paying attention, there can regularly end up with only 3 or 4 cars getting through before it goes red. Which leads to massive tailbacks on that road, and less people able to get into the left-turning lane.

The most ridiculous of all is the Roost/Garda Station intersection though. Traffic going 6 different directions crossing each other at once (from Mill Street going left/forward/right at the same time as traffic from Leinster St tries to go left/forward/right). Then because of the crap sequencing of lights further up the main street, and because the Mill St left turn has had a green light pretty much for 4mins straight, it gets completely blocked up around the Sherry Fitz Bradys/O'Flahertys corner, so no-one on Parson Street can get onto the Main Street in the 5 seconds that the light goes green for them. The light goes red for them, and then because of the lights up at Romayos/BOI going green, the traffic starts moving again, which is great for anyone coming from Mill St, but anyone on Parsons St hasn't moved an inch because there is no room on the Main St.
Some drivers recognise this issue and just drive from Parson St onto main street, and are almost perpendicular with the cars coming from Mill Street for about 20s until the queue on Main Streets starts to move again, as otherwise they'd be sat at Parson St forever.

Seen the perfect storm there one evening.

Cars heading towards Maynooth stopped as normal at lights, with the yellow box behind clear, so normally cars from the college will pull out into that box - but this evening it was a Streamline coach pulling out of college into the box with his tail still into the gate.

Of course the green light then came on for cars coming out of Mariavilla, a lot of who were turning right to come up the Moyglare Rd, and were immediately blocked by this bus so there was a tailback of them now back across the junction blocking the cars trying to get into Maynooth. Even as they edged up into the junction as much as possible, the bus couldn't get it's tail out enough to clear the road. So for a few sequences no one went anywhere, until a car from Mariavilla turned towards town to leave a gap for others to get through, and bus to get out.

Amazing that such a small entrance to college with no real traffic control is also to main entrance for a lot of coaches trying to avoid the town centre.

The changing of the entrances to the old secondary from a single dedicated entry and exit to both being entry/exits has made a mess of things too as cars/buses must wait for an exiting vehicle to be let out before they can enter and if there's a queue to exit the whole thing falls apart. The one closest to the junction has caused at least two accidents recently as cars must cross two lanes if turning back towards the town and were struck by cars in the right turn lane for Mariaville

Glenveagh has acquired land spanning 250 acres on the Kildare-Meath border for €55 million, the Business Post has learned.

Last year, the housebuilder, led by Stephen Garvey, signalled its intent to “significantly expand” its land bank.

The company has now completed a deal to acquire a 250-acre site at Moygaddy, Co Kildare, for a price in the region of €55 million.

The land near Maynooth has capacity for thousands of homes and has been acquired from Tom Bailey, the veteran developer.

The site was reported to be valued at €40 million in 2023 during a court case over plans to develop the site.

Based on residential density guidelines, if Glenveagh developed a mix of housing and commercial projects on the land, more than 2,000 homes could be built at the site.

In September 2024, Glenveagh said the firm was working on land deals that would add thousands of units to its pipeline.

Last month, a trading update issued by Glenveagh said it had “opportunistically” acquired land with capacity for 9,000 units across 14 sites from the last remaining borrowers from Nama and non-traditional landholders in 2024.

“The total cost of these acquisitions is €285 million with approximately €210 million deployed in 2024 (with the balance to be deployed in 2025),” the firm said. “These sites were purchased at an attractive cost of €31k per unit.”

The developer said there was a limited supply of zoned and serviced land suitable for viable own-door housing in Ireland and “this dynamic has necessitated proactive investment in land by the group”.

Glenveagh’s land bank now has capacity for an estimated 20,000 homes. The developer has targeted to deliver between 2,600 and 3,600 units per annum across through to 2029.

A number of large property projects were previously proposed on the Moygaddy site, which spans several agricultural fields north of Maynooth, by the previous owners of the land.

It was planned to create a large neighbourhood, with a healthcare facility, hotel, tourism hub, biotechnology innovation centre and food market. A large housing project totalling 500 homes was also proposed on part of the site, along with offices.

Is there a new planning application that your aware of or are you just shooting from the hip?

Planning in for 581 units on the new to be built eastern section of the ring road. Just north of the ET school and that new Grange estate.

https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561119/0

I guess this "secondary vehicular access via the proposed section of the Maynooth Outer Orbital Route" means via the education campus and the rat run through Moyglare Hall. Although better access to the Dunboyne road and the eventual link to Lidl would be good, any idea of the status of it?

Hopefully, continuing the road to the Dunboyne road will relieve some of the congestion at the campus, as it is on a rainy morning, traffic queues from the "new" Moyglare Hall entrance through the estate back as far the GAA pitches. I've often walked the kids to school and passed cars that were queuing in the estate when I left on the Moyglare road on my way back!