# Kilpurcel, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Coill Phuirséid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,363,808 m² (136.38 ha, 337 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,979 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Kilcoke, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28018 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100746 - Centre: latitude 52.894678, longitude -7.599498 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilpurcel, from 47 m² to 224,758 m² (22.48 ha, 55.54 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 234271: 224,758 m² (22.48 ha, 55.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234271.md - Parcel 234270: 154,111 m² (15.41 ha, 38.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234270.md - Parcel 246903: 141,424 m² (14.14 ha, 34.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246903.md - Parcel 256639: 137,629 m² (13.76 ha, 34.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256639.md - Parcel 253282: 100,753 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253282.md - Parcel 228805: 100,361 m² (10.04 ha, 24.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228805.md - Parcel 264483: 93,293 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264483.md - Parcel 226175: 89,786 m² (8.98 ha, 22.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226175.md - Parcel 5594875: 57,275 m² (5.73 ha, 14.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5594875.md - Parcel 2481939: 55,828 m² (5.58 ha, 13.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481939.md - Parcel 250838: 55,527 m² (5.55 ha, 13.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250838.md - Parcel 265966: 25,239 m² (2.52 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265966.md - Parcel 265513: 22,548 m² (2.25 ha, 5.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265513.md - Parcel 5210513: 7,410 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5210513.md - Parcel 243960: 6,823 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243960.md - Parcel 239543: 6,643 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239543.md - Parcel 3350739: 6,537 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3350739.md - Parcel 226650: 5,568 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226650.md - Parcel 225126: 4,561 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225126.md - Parcel 268410: 3,104 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268410.md - Parcel 240235: 2,812 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240235.md - Parcel 5594870: 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5594870.md - Parcel 253358: 1,989 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/253358.md - Parcel 265725: 970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/265725.md - Parcel 232856: 909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/232856.md - Parcel 246087: 47 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/246087.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 27 Oct 2025, Laois County Council 2560703: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560703/0 - 11 Feb 2025, Laois County Council 2560067: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560067/0 - 12 Aug 2023, Laois County Council 2360319: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360319/0 - 27 Nov 2020, Laois County Council 20621: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20621/0 - 10 Aug 2020, Laois County Council 20410: Conditional. Permission. retain agricultural shed & milking parlour using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20410/0 - 22 Oct 2018, Laois County Council 18636: Conditional. Retention. retain construction of a loose house with slatted tank, meal store and beet store and farm road entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18636/0 - 12 Oct 2018, Laois County Council 18615: N/a. Retention. retain a loose house with slatted tank, meal store and beet store and farm road entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18615/0 - 19 Sept 2018, Laois County Council 18574: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. change use from "Signal Box" public house to form part of dwelling house, alterations to elevations and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18574/0 - 28 Mar 2018, Laois County Council 18181: Conditional. Permission. retain loose house with slatted easy-feed tank and permission to construct two new slatted cattle houses. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18181/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Kilpurcel. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA028-001001: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA028-001001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA028-001002-. 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 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) - Ballybrophy Railway Station, railway station, 1845–1865, Regional interest, registry number 12802201, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LA®no=12802201. Detached Tudor Revival railway station, c. 1855, with projecting porch and gables. Detached railway goods shed, c. 1900, to site. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/laois/kilpurcel.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilpurcel.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilpurcel.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilpurcel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybrophy: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballybrophy.md - Ballyhegadon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyhegadon-glebe.md - Ballyreilly: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyreilly.md - Clonburren: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonburren.md - Grange Beg: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-beg.md - Kilcoke: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilcoke.md - Raheenphelan Glebe: https://everytownland.com/laois/raheenphelan-glebe.md - Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathmore-100969.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilpurcel - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/kilpurcel