Bishopscourt Lower

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bishopscourt Lower, from 122 m² to 317,673 m² (31.77 ha, 78.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bishopscourt Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  a New dwelling and detached garage, Existing Agricultural entrance to become shared entrance for new dwelling, Wastewater Treatment system with Percolation area, Well, Landscaping & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561360

• 26 Nov 2025N/a

  a New dwelling and detached garage, Existing Agricultural entrance to become shared entrance for new dwelling, Wastewater Treatment system with Percolation area, Well, Landscaping & all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561333

• 28 Nov 2023Conditional

  for alterations to the front elevation consisting of the demolition of the front section of the existing dining area and roof over, removal of dormer windows to upper floor bedroom, provision of a new bay window to the front on both floors, alterations to the rear playroom and pantry, internal alterations to the layout, with minor internal and external elevational alterations, all to the existing detached two storey dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 231001

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  Extension of duration of Planning Reference 15/840 - erection of an Agricultural Store and horse stables, and also an improved recessed entrance in place of existing entrance with all associated facilities and site works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 201516

• 15 Jul 2020Conditional

  for as constructed Dormer/Storey and a Half Dwelling House, Site Entrance Walls with Gate and all Associated Site Development Works. This development was previously granted Planning Permission on Planning File reg. ref: 14/731. All development to take place at

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20756

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  proposed rear extension, minor renovations and partial demolition to existing cottage, upgrade of existing waste water system, upgrade of existing entrance to cul-de-sac and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19334

• 11 Mar 2019N/a

  retention permission of condition 1 from previous application 99/284; demolition of existing cottage, Proposed rear extension, minor alterations to existing cottage, upgrade of existing waste water system, upgrade of existing entrance to cul-de-sac and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19235

• 2 Aug 2018Conditional

  single storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system with raised percolation area, new site entrance and associated site development works. All development to take place

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18942

• 25 Jul 2018Refused

  a three bedroom single storey house, wastewater treatment plant, entrance, associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18899

• 6 Apr 2018Refused

  Three bedroom single storey house, wastewater treatment plant, entrance associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18378

• 13 Sept 2017Refused

  three bedroom single storey house, wastewater treatment plant, entrance and associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171027

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  of the following deviations from that granted under planning Ref. No. 13/746 which comprise: (a) Alterations of position of site entrance and access driveway. (b) Alterations of site boundaries, and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17503

• 7 Apr 2017Conditional

  Construction of a detached one and a half storey house with dormer element, single storey detached domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of revised house design as a one and half storey detached house, revised access arrangements and proposed works to existing access laneway adjoining the public road

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17381

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bishopscourt Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bishopscourt Lower.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bishopscourt Lower.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Bishopscourt Lower, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2870 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Bishopscourt Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Bishopscourt Lower · Cúirt an Easpaig Íochtarach

Area

942,700 m² (94.27 ha, 232.95 acres)

Civil parish

Oughterard, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

846 people lived in 271 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alasty, Baronrath, Bishopscourt Upper, Boston, Keeloges, Oughterard, Painestown

Placenames

Bishopscourt Lower on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.