New housing developments in Maynooth

Clúid Housing has not purchased the entire development; rather, they acquired a specific portion of the homes at The Grange to operate as affordable cost rental housing.

Clúid opened up applications for 11 brand new, two-bedroom terraced houses at The Grange for their cost rental scheme.

The remaining homes in the development that are not part of Clúid's scheme are allocated for private purchase or other mixed-tenure arrangements via Kildare County Council

Does anyone know when the Cairn boarding will be taken down outside Maria villa and what's planned to be done with it, there's a big site there. Also at the other side of Mariavilla, what are they building?

How can they just leave it look that way indefinitely? It's ridiculous. Irish planning..

Where exactly is this going to be? Anyone able to pinpoint on a map?

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/04/02/glenveagh-puts-79m-price-tag-on-homes-it-intends-to-sell-to-meath-county-council/

As a full time worker and taxpayer and seeing many friends unable to buy a house, it really is frustrating to see so many units going to social housing. Would much rather more affordable homes for those who do not qualify for social housing.

Something is not right in the world if those getting welfare supports like a heavily subsidised (50 euro a week rent) house have a better standard of living than the person working full time who can’t afford their own home and are above any threshold for housing support.

The sad irony of it is that, the taxes of those hard working people who can’t afford their home are being used to subsidise others and housing bodies to give houses to others. Mad world we live in.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/04/02/glenveagh-puts-79m-price-tag-on-homes-it-intends-to-sell-to-meath-county-council/

Thanks, I’m never great at understanding these maps but will have a proper look later on the computer rather than phone.

Where it looks like the residential houses will be, still seem a fair bit away from the train station.

Source: An Coimisiún Pleanála https://share.google/FXtVT13tJacWLM8ug

Here's a more detailed plan of what I'm referring to, with public hospital, primary care centre, scouts den, 'tourism' amenities all shown

https://glenveagh.ie/our-communities/moygaddy-community-hub

Here's Gelveighs take on it

I'm not familiar with the details of Moygaddy, but generally these developments are done in phases. The developer needs to sell a pile of homes in phase I to fund later phases. Often the infrastructure and amenities, etc. are promised for later phases - which is to be expected when it's a private developer. It's up to the council to put conditions in the planning permission grant that specify exactly when different amenities are delivered, and then enforce it.

Sometimes a developer will be told to, for example, have a creche built and operational by the time the last house in phase I is occupied, but if the developer doesn't deliver, in my experience up to residents to push the council to act.

The Moygaddy masterplan on the page you linked to does show all the promised community infrastructure and the land use zoning, if you read the full document. But don't be surprised if later planning applications try to change the deliverables, or if Glenveagh asks to change the zoning - that's where the council and residents have to make them deliver on their promises.

It isn't on private housing developers to build swimming pools and astro pitches. The council should be delivering social facilities and leave the builders do what they are there for, building homes.

If the developer did build the pool and pitches the cost of the housing would increase to pay for it anyway.