Courttown West

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Courttown West, from 45,491 m² (4.55 ha, 11.24 acres) to 462,641 m² (46.26 ha, 114.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Courttown West 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.

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a Soiled water / Slurry lagoon, Planning permission to erect a meal storage bin and associated site work

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561366

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct an A-roof, cow cubicle shed (agricultural building), concrete feed passage and associated site work

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17850

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 Courttown West.

Recorded monuments

• KD034-013 Enclosure
  Description

  In level tillage. Visible on a 1970 aerial photograph (CUCAP BDH 66) as the cropmark of a fosse defining a large, roughly triangular-shaped area (est. dims 120m x 120m x 120m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 27 November

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Courttown West.

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

About 1 in 5 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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

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

Name

Courttown West · Baile na Cúirte Thiar

Area

508,132 m² (50.81 ha, 125.56 acres)

Civil parish

Churchtown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Athy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynasculloge, Castlemitchell North, Churchtown South, Coolroe, Courttown East, Kilcoo

Placenames

Courttown West 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.