New housing developments in Maynooth

Silane

Lastblackdog wrote: »

If only we could create a special code that would identify each individual house in Ireland!

Sorry, just dreaming out loud. It will never happen.

Like this one for example? W23 Y7CF

16 THE DOWNS
MOYGLARE ABBEY
MAYNOOTH
NAAS
CO. KILDARE

The house is in Moyglare Hall, not Moyglare Abbey, and Maynooth isn't in Naas.

citylad74

Is it true that crèche places & school places can be difficult to get in Maynooth? I don’t live in the area at the moment. Is 12months notice the norm for booking a primary school place?

lalalaland

citylad74 wrote: »

Is it true that crèche places & school places can be difficult to get in Maynooth? I don’t live in the area at the moment. Is 12months notice the norm for booking a primary school place?

There’s 5 primary schools in Maynooth:

Girls Presentation School: Catholic girls school. Enrolment opens year before, no issues getting a place. At the end of Main st where Carton Ave is

Boys School: Catholic boys school. Same situation as the girls school. At the bottom of the Moyglare Road opposite the church

Educate Together: Mixed school, long waiting list, many people put names down at birth. They’ve just increased to taking two streams and will be in a new building soon but still everyone who puts name down doesn’t get a place. On the Celbridge Road

Gaelscoil Ui Fhiach: Catholic mixed school, long waiting list - name needs to be down from birth pretty much as well. Across the road from the ET

Gaelscoil Ruairi: Only opened this year. Multidenominational mixed school. Currently has no premises and operating out of the library at the other Gaelscoil but will be located on the Moyglare Road. Currently only has junior infants and were campaigning for more students to get an extra teacher. Lots of parents holding off due to uncertainty this summer over the premises

Creche places are ridiculous. No crèches take babies under one. There are two crèches in the town - Kinder Crescent on the Straffan Road and Maynooth Day Nursery in Parklands. Both are small and have long waiting lists. There’s lots of places for sessional playschool hours but the only other creche is in the college for people working or studying there

Silane

citylad74 wrote: »

Is it true that crèche places & school places can be difficult to get in Maynooth? I don’t live in the area at the moment. Is 12months notice the norm for booking a primary school place?

Yeah, creches are next to impossible to get in Maynooth, but there are options in Leixlip and Celbridge.
For primary it depends on the primary school. I've had my two registered in Educate Together since birth, but other schools only accept applications in February for September starts, so it depends on what school you're after.

citylad74

Thks for the info lalalaland & Silane��

ghostdancer

lalalaland wrote: »

Creche places are ridiculous. No crèches take babies under one. There are two crèches in the town - Kinder Crescent on the Straffan Road and Maynooth Day Nursery in Parklands. Both are small and have long waiting lists. There’s lots of places for sessional playschool hours but the only other creche is in the college for people working or studying there

Is there not a creche in Carton Square too?

jethrothe2nd

lalalaland wrote: »

There’s 5 primary schools in Maynooth:

Educate Together: Mixed school, long waiting list, many people put names down at birth. They’ve just increased to taking two streams and will be in a new building soon but still everyone who puts name down doesn’t get a place. On the Celbridge Road

I think this years intake was actually under-subscribed in the end. Also there is no sibling policy although I believe that is going to change.

angeldelight

jethrothe2nd wrote: »

I think this years intake was actually under-subscribed in the end. Also there is no sibling policy although I believe that is going to change.

I’m not sure if it was as I’ve a friend whose son was on the list and wasn’t offered a place, he ended up going to the one in Celbridge. Their enrolment policy is changing for 2024 apparently but they don’t know yet what to as the decisions will be made centrally

angeldelight

ghostdancer wrote: »

Is there not a creche in Carton Square too?

Tiddlywinks & Scallywags - sessional montessori/playschool only they don’t do full day care

Moonbeam

ghostdancer wrote: »

Is there not a creche in Carton Square too?

Nope, it is a pre-school

L1011

Seems to be permission in for 9 houses on the derelict site at the mouth of Parklands/Castlebridge (the old Leavy yard & Hitchhikers International hostel or whatever it was called but that's going back 20 years and more); or at least that is what I am assuming from the location description on the planning site. File isn't in yet.

If its not there; it's presumably somewhere way down Old Railpark beyond the end of Parklands.

smelly sock

L1011 wrote: »

Seems to be permission in for 9 houses on the derelict site at the mouth of Parklands/Castlebridge (the old Leavy yard & Hitchhikers International hostel or whatever it was called but that's going back 20 years and more); or at least that is what I am assuming from the location description on the planning site. File isn't in yet.

If its not there; it's presumably somewhere way down Old Railpark beyond the end of Parklands.

I believe its down the fair end of old railpark. Parklands residents not happy.

The site you refer to has been derelict for 30+ years i woud say.

L1011

If if it's the other end - what precisely did they expect? Look at Celbridge, every large one off on the Maynooth Road is getting turned in to a mini estate.

I'd prefer much higher density on the Leavy site - apartments, multi storey as it's below the road - so probably just as well.

smelly sock

L1011 wrote: »

If if it's the other end - what precisely did they expect? Look at Celbridge, every large one off on the Maynooth Road is getting turned in to a mini estate.

I'd prefer much higher density on the Leavy site - apartments, multi storey as it's below the road - so probably just as well.

I think they should stop building until a meaningful traffic management solution is put in place. The town, from the business park to Laraghbryan and up to Moyglare hall is a ****show for 11 hours a day or so.

TheBody

I heard that the closure of Parsons street has been postponed. Can anyone confirm?

angeldelight

TheBody wrote: »

I heard that the closure of Parsons street has been postponed. Can anyone confirm?

Yes confirmed by local councillors on Facebook

shanec1928

angeldelight wrote: »

Yes confirmed by local councillors on Facebook

till when? any link to the post?

Orion

Until next summer.

Patser

The road that runs from Moyglare Stud to Carton House, a frequent one I use to bypass the town is down to be closed from mid-term week 28th to 1st to repair a bridge on it

smelly sock

27 minutes to get from circle k to bank of ireland main street. Sure lets lash another 1500 houses in.

L1011

Because the town has the train service - as overcapacity as it is - road capacity issues will be mostly ignored in planning applications.

There may be a few more trains in 2021 and a few more buses before then but we aren't getting anything else. There is a very vague chance the orbital bus route to Tallaght could come on early in a phased release of BusConnects but I wouldn't rely on it.

A huge parking enforcement push around the schools might make a few parents stop giving in to their kids demands and help with school time traffic; but there are also still infrastructural issues in walking/cycling such as a two foot wide footpath opposite Maxol.

shanec1928

also dosnt help that theirs what 10 sets of lights between the junction a lidl and the main street not to mention how poor of a sequence that they are in.

smelly sock

L1011 wrote: »

Because the town has the train service - as overcapacity as it is - road capacity issues will be mostly ignored in planning applications.

There may be a few more trains in 2021 and a few more buses before then but we aren't getting anything else. There is a very vague chance the orbital bus route to Tallaght could come on early in a phased release of BusConnects but I wouldn't rely on it.

A huge parking enforcement push around the schools might make a few parents stop giving in to their kids demands and help with school time traffic; but there are also still infrastructural issues in walking/cycling such as a two foot wide footpath opposite Maxol.

But you cant get a train from circle K to the main street though.

smelly sock

shanec1928 wrote: »

also dosnt help that theirs what 10 sets of lights between the junction a lidl and the main street not to mention how poor of a sequence that they are in.

There was no need for lights at the meadowbrook link road. The traffic moved better without them. Also the island they placed at the glenroyal leading into the main street hasnt helped.

tnegun

smelly sock wrote: »

But you cant get a train from circle K to the main street though.

Why are you driving through Maynooth though?

L1011

smelly sock wrote: »

But you cant get a train from circle K to the main street though.

People driving to/from Maynooth from/to somewhere else are the main cause of traffic in the town; followed by schoolkids being dropped off. Public transport capacity and not mollycoddling kids will assist greatly.

smelly sock

L1011 wrote: »

People driving to/from Maynooth from/to somewhere else are the main cause of traffic in the town; followed by schoolkids being dropped off. Public transport capacity and not mollycoddling kids will assist greatly.

That would help. Also students not driving would be a great help too. Nearly every students house you see now has 2 or 3 cars outside it. This is the main issue. Generally people arent dropping or collecting kids at 10am and 6 pm.

L1011

What trip are you making yourself?

tnegun

I'd have to agree the college generates a huge amount of traffic but the schools seem to get all the bad rep for it, anyone know how many parking spaces there are on both campuses?

Also has anyone ever seen a Guard directing traffic in Maynooth and who's monitoring the traffic cameras??

smelly sock

L1011 wrote: »

What trip are you making yourself?

Straffan road to Gaa club.