Kilpurcel

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilpurcel, from 47 m² to 224,758 m² (22.48 ha, 55.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Kilpurcel 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.

• 27 Oct 2025Conditional

  Retain a garage/ fuel shed to side of existing dwelling Permission for development consists of a side and rear extension to existing dwelling, a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560703

• 11 Feb 2025Conditional

  construct a new storey and a half type replacement dwelling, the change of use of the existing dwelling to a domestic store, the demolition of elements of the existing dwelling and internal and external alteration works to the existing dwelling and the provision of a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560067

• 12 Aug 2023Conditional

  demolish elements of the existing dwelling, construct a single storey extension to the south and west of the existing dwelling, associated internal and external alteration works to the existing dwelling and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360319

• 27 Nov 2020Conditional

  extend the hard standing car park to the west of Ballybrophy train station and widen the existing access road to provide a total of 99 No. formal car parking spaces. The plans involve works within the curtilage of a protected structure. Proposals include a new bicycle shelter containing 20 No. bicycle stands, new footpaths, fencing, kerbing, safety barriers, drainage, road markings, public lighting, substation, cctv, ticketing machine, electric car charging points and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20621

• 10 Aug 2020Conditional

  retain agricultural shed & milking parlour using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20410

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  retain construction of a loose house with slatted tank, meal store and beet store and farm road entrance

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18636

• 12 Oct 2018N/a

  retain a loose house with slatted tank, meal store and beet store and farm road entrance

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18615

• 19 Sept 2018Conditional

  change use from "Signal Box" public house to form part of dwelling house, alterations to elevations and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18574

• 28 Mar 2018Conditional

  retain loose house with slatted easy-feed tank and permission to construct two new slatted cattle houses

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18181

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 Kilpurcel.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-001001 Field system
  Description

  Cropmarks of field boundaries visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 77-8). Date unknown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-001002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Cropmark of trackway visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 77-8). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Ballybrophy Railway Station, railway station, 1845–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Tudor Revival railway station, c. 1855, with projecting porch and gables. Detached railway goods shed, c. 1900, to site.

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 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilpurcel.

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 Kilpurcel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilpurcel · Coill Phuirséid

Area

1,363,808 m² (136.38 ha, 337 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Kilcoke, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcoke electoral division: 141 people in 53 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrophy, Ballyhegadon Glebe, Ballyreilly, Clonburren, Grange Beg, Kilcoke, Raheenphelan Glebe, Rathmore

Placenames

Kilpurcel 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.