Bishopscourt Upper

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bishopscourt Upper, from 10 m² to 83,188 m² (8.32 ha, 20.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Sept 2026N/a

  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.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2661062

• 23 Feb 2026Refused

  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

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660176

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  the retention of dwelling as built as previously granted under planning ref. no. 04/2725, and all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2025

• 19 Dec 2019N/a

  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

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 191419

• 20 Jun 2017Conditional

  (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

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17723

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 Bishopscourt Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD014-029 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Bishopscourt Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Bishopscourt Upper · Cúirt an Easpaig Uachtarach

Area

1,657,716 m² (165.77 ha, 409.63 acres)

Civil parish

Oughterard, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Bishopscourt Lower, Blackhill, Kill East, Oughterard, Painestown, Tuckmilltown

Placenames

Bishopscourt Upper 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.