# Bishopscourt Upper, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Oughterard, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare; in Irish Cúirt an Easpaig Uachtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,657,716 m² (165.77 ha, 409.63 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,391 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Oughterard, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/oughterard.md
- Barony: Salt South
- Electoral division: Oughterard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/26027
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80170
- Centre: latitude 53.261444, longitude -6.577496 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bishopscourt Upper, from 10 m² to 83,188 m² (8.32 ha, 20.56 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1013691: 83,188 m² (8.32 ha, 20.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013691.md
- Parcel 1045889: 58,792 m² (5.88 ha, 14.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045889.md
- Parcel 1018656: 42,945 m² (4.29 ha, 10.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018656.md
- Parcel 1027136: 41,289 m² (4.13 ha, 10.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027136.md
- Parcel 1089592: 22,115 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089592.md
- Parcel 1067440: 13,788 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1067440.md
- Parcel 1086422: 13,757 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1086422.md
- Parcel 1067439: 11,653 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1067439.md
- Parcel 1013174: 9,544 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013174.md
- Parcel 5965164: 7,683 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965164.md
- Parcel 5650431: 4,592 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5650431.md
- Parcel 1021977: 4,295 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021977.md
- Parcel 5777887: 4,183 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777887.md
- Parcel 1046529: 4,146 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1046529.md
- Parcel 5504361: 4,083 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5504361.md
- Parcel 1066298: 3,647 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066298.md
- Parcel 1014376: 3,550 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014376.md
- Parcel 1024178: 3,544 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024178.md
- Parcel 5965258: 3,537 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965258.md
- Parcel 1034821: 3,131 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034821.md
- Parcel 5390193: 3,059 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5390193.md
- Parcel 4642495: 3,003 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4642495.md
- Parcel 1066297: 2,905 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066297.md
- Parcel 5814438: 2,547 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5814438.md
- Parcel 5303655: 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5303655.md
- Parcel 1023647: 2,336 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023647.md
- Parcel 1090384: 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090384.md
- Parcel 1020154: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1020154.md
- Parcel 3184457: 1,941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3184457.md
- Parcel 5026920: 1,360 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5026920.md
- Parcel 5965238: 1,265 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965238.md
- Parcel 5965293: 945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965293.md
- Parcel 5965332: 861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965332.md
- Parcel 1066292: 733 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066292.md
- Parcel 5965400: 711 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965400.md
- Parcel 1066639: 628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066639.md
- Parcel 5965339: 608 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965339.md
- Parcel 1025658: 553 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025658.md
- Parcel 5965348: 502 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965348.md
- Parcel 1086911: 478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1086911.md
- Parcel 5734090: 265 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5734090.md
- Parcel 1088655: 253 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1088655.md
- Parcel 5965317: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965317.md
- Parcel 5965418: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965418.md
- Parcel 5770530: 183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5770530.md
- Parcel 5965359: 117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965359.md
- Parcel 5965320: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965320.md
- Parcel 5965342: 99 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965342.md
- Parcel 5965423: 46 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965423.md
- Parcel 5965309: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965309.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 25 Sept 2026, Kildare County Council 2661062: N/a. Retention. a. RETAIN ENLARGED GARAGE WITH ACCESS STAIRS TO FIRST FLOOR LEVEL STORE. b. RETAIN APPLICATION 05/1780 FURTHER INFORMATION REQUEST DIRECTIVE 2: NO HALF HIPS, RETAIN DORMER BAY TYPE WINDOW, NO MOCK TUDOR CLADDING, NO REAR BALCONY AND NO BRICK FACADES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE KILDARE RURAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES. c. RETAIN WIDENED ALTERED FRONT VEHICULAR ACCESS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661062/0
- 23 Feb 2026, Kildare County Council 2660176: Refused. Permission. 3 no. single storey, detached tourist accommodation lodges each with 2 no. additional single storey, detached glamping pods along with a single storey, detached retreat building. Also, ancillary development consisting of replacement vehicular entrance, landscaping, boundary treatment, bike storage, car parking, EV charging facilities, disabled car parking, outdoor sauna and plunge pool low level lighting, bin storage area, new internal access roads and on-site waste water treatment facilities for all units. All associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660176/0
- 15 Jan 2020, Kildare County Council 2025: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. the retention of dwelling as built as previously granted under planning ref. no. 04/2725, and all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2025/0
- 19 Dec 2019, Kildare County Council 191419: N/a. Retention. retention and alterations to dwelling previously granted under planning ref. no. 04/2725, alterations to existing dwelling include; (1) Alterations to layout including removal of rear projections decreasing the overall floor area and reducing bedrooms from 6 to 5. (2) Minor alterations to all elevations including positioning, size and style of windows and doors, and garage doors. (3) Addition of first floor dormer window to side elevation. (4) Addition of saddle rooflight to main roof pitch. (5) Replacement of 2 no. dormer windows on rear elevation with 2 no. dormer style doors with integrated roof balconies and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191419/0
- 20 Jun 2017, Kildare County Council 17723: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (A) erection of a one and a half storey type house, (B) garage/fuel store for domestic use, (C) the installation of Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with percolation area, (D) upgrading of existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17723/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KD014-029: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD014-029----. On a gentle, SW-facing slope in tillage. Described in 1972 as a circular, tree-filled area (diam. c. 55m) defined by a slight, inner earthen bank, and a wide, water-filled fosse, with a causewayed entrance at SE. By 1985 the trees had been cleared, the land had been drained and the monument was reduced to a low, roughly circular rise in a field of barley (SMR file). The monument may have been a rath which was subsequently landscaped by the owners of Bishopscourt House to the E, on whose lands it stood. Visible as a cropmark on a 1995 aerial photo (Osi Orthophoto). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
- KD020-031: Linear earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD020-031----. Situated on S edge of gently sloping grassland overlooking area of marshland and stream immediately to SE which marks townland boundary with Kill East. Kill motte and bailey (KD019-008004) c. 1km to SSW, Castlewarden motte and bailey (KD015-009001-) approx. 2.4km to NE. Bishopscourt Castle (KD015-012----) was located near Bishopscourt House located approx. 1km to the N. A linear earthwork depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a field boundary running roughly WNW-ESE to the SW of a newly built house consists of a high round topped earthen bank (top Wth c. 2m; H 1.5m) with V-shaped fosse (D 1m; Wth 1.5m) running along NE side. Mr. O'Malley suggested that this may be an upstanding section of the Dublin 'Pale' a section of which (KD020-008----) remains upstanding approx. 4km to the SE at Kilteel Church (KD020-007002-) and graveyard (KD020-007006-). Upstanding earthwork possibly represents the remains of a medieval boundary between two manorial estates (Kill Manor & Castlewarden) or could possibly belong to the Dublin pale. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Michael O'Malley Date of upload: 31 October 2019

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Bishopscourt Upper, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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_2871, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2871.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bishopscourt-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bishopscourt-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bishopscourt-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Bishopscourt Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Bishopscourt Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bishopscourt-lower.md
- Blackhill: https://everytownland.com/kildare/blackhill.md
- Kill East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kill-east.md
- Oughterard: https://everytownland.com/kildare/oughterard.md
- Painestown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/painestown-80987.md
- Tuckmilltown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tuckmilltown.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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