Courtown Little
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcock, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile na Cúirte Beag
- Area
- 50.7 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 142
- registered freehold, median 118 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
142 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Courtown Little, from 28 m² to 205,098 m² (20.51 ha, 50.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Courtown Little 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Apr 2024Conditional
for proposed alterations to ground floor plan to accommodate toilet access from proposed toddler room, for change of use of cot room to toddler room, and for proposed increased childcare to cater up to 56 full-day children, and 24 children on a sessional basis
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460358
10 Apr 2024Conditional
The construction of a new front ground floor window (with higher cill than exists on site) to existing two storey terraced house and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460306
30 Jan 2023Conditional
Permission for retention of garden shed in rear garden
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2371
23 Mar 2021Conditional
of Pl. Ref. 15/349 - Construction of a residential development of 66 no. houses (24 no. 3 bedroom and 42 no. 4 bedroom) and all associated site development works including internal roads and open space.
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 21365
15 Mar 2021Conditional
proposed alterations to Conditions 5 and 18 of Planning Permission 05/2058. We now apply for permission to cater for up to 40 full-day children, and 22 children on a sessional basis; and the provision of 18 car-parking spaces
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21318
15 Sept 2020Conditional
for construction of 2 No. GAA grass playing pitches to the east of the exiting Pitch 1, (Pitch 2 – 130m x 80m, Pitch 3 – 140m x 90m), raising of ground levels and construction of associated pitch drainage. Permission is sought for the following: Construction of 12 No. 21.30m high lighting to Pitch 2 and Pitch 3. Construction of 4 No. 12m high x 30m ball stop netting behind goals of Pitch 2 and Pitch 3. Construction of a new 90m x 50m all-weather pitch to replace an existing grass juvenile pitch, including new 2.4m high perimeter fencing, 6m high ball stop netting (up to 12m high behind goals) and 5m high concrete skills wall. Construction of 2 No. 12m high lighting columns to the all-weather pitch. New hard standing for car parking spaces (approx. 155 spaces) and bicycle parking (approx. 25) and associated 6m high lighting columns. 1200m of new 2m wide hard stand looped walkway around perimeter of site. A new 220kV generator, 1,000 litre diesel tank, fuel feed line and switchboard with 2.4m high perimeter fencing enclosure. Installation of 2 No. 20ft storage containers for GAA equipment. New boundary treatments around the perimeter of the site (fencing and planting). All associated site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information consisting; of a revised drawing has been submitted to the planning authority highlighting the extent of the new 2m high boundary wall as a noise mitigation measure which will replace a previously proposed 2.4m high weld mesh fence.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 201053
20 Jul 2020Conditional
the change of use from retail/commercial to residential to provide for seven dwelling houses and all associated site development works
Permission, 7 homes · Kildare County Council, 20787
9 Mar 2018Refused
a)Permission to reduce the ground level of existing ground by an average of 2.65 metres and removing approx 66000 cubic metres of soil from a source site to the west of the existing and permitted Kilcock car dismantlers recycling centre depot and permission to deposit the removed soil to a nearby site located approximately 500 metres North East of the source site. B) Permission to use the lowered lands described above as ancillary storage space for pre-categorised vehicles (PCV’s), end of life vehicles with commercial value (ELV with CV) and end of life vehicles with no commercial value (ELV no CV). c) Permission to install a temporary mobile stone crusher on site ancillary to the removal of soil from the site. d) Permission for the construction of a single story industrial style side extension to the east of the existing and permitted car dismantlers recycling centre depot to be used for storage of recycled car parts for online distribution. e) Permission for the construction of a single storey stand alone, detached building to be used for the recycling of electric/ hybrid vehicle battery packs and all associated site works. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)
Permission · Kildare County Council, 18242
27 Nov 2017N/a
(a) Permission to reduce the ground level of existing ground by an average of 2.65 metres and removing approximately 66000 cubic metres of soil from a source site to the west of the existing and permitted Kilcock Car Dismantlers Recycling Centre depot and permission to deposit the removed soil to a nearby site located approximately 500 metres north east of the source site. (b) Permission to use the lowered lands described above as ancillary storage space for Pre-Categorised Vehicles (PCV’s), End of Life Vehicles with Commercial Value (ELV with CV) and End of Life Vehicles with No Commercial Value (ELV no CV). (C) Permission for the construction of a single storey industrial style side extension to the east of the existing and permitted car dismantlers recycling centre depot to be used for storage of recycled car parts for online distribution. (d) Permission for the construction of a single storey stand alone, detached building to be used for the recycling of electric/hybrid vehicle battery packs and all associated site works. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the EIS is available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, during office hours at the offices of the Planning Authority. Development to take place on this site
Permission · Kildare County Council, 171322
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Courtown Little.
Recorded monuments
- KD005-034 Enclosure
Description
Faint cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 39m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 6 November 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Courtown Little.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2753 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Courtown Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Courtown Little · Baile na Cúirte Beag
- Area
- 506,939 m² (50.69 ha, 125.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Kilcock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcock electoral division: 8,896 people in 2,853 households; 69% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Branganstown, Clonsast, Commons South, Courtown Great, Kilcock, Laragh
- Placenames
- Courtown Little 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.