Westcourt North

110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Westcourt North, from 22 m² to 183,187 m² (18.32 ha, 45.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Westcourt North 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 Sept 2026N/a

  of existing domestic storage building. Full Planning permission to construct a single storey granny flat extension to side of dwelling, upgrade wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660563

• 26 Feb 2026Conditional

  to install an over-ground soiled water and dairy washings storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660114

• 14 Feb 2025N/a

  to build a one-storey extension to the north gable of dwelling house, including all necessary groundworks and service connections from existing house

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2513

• 23 Jan 2025N/a

  to build a one-storey extension to the north gable of my dwelling house, including all necessary groundworks and service connections from existing house

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 255

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the Indefinite retention of a single storey extension to the side of the dwelling and Indefinite retention of a detached garage located at the side of the dwelling

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460642

• 3 Dec 2024Conditional

  to 1. CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF DWELLING TO INCLUDE WORKS TO ALL ELEVATIONS 2. DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVIDE UPGRADED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460605

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  to construct an agricultural storage shed, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360189

• 4 May 2023N/a

  to construct an agricultural storage shed, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360180

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of a two-storey dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21792

• 23 Aug 2021Conditional

  to retain existing extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and for the change of use of garage to bedroom and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21723

• 2 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct (i) milking parlour incorporating collecting/drafting yard with flow channel and slatted tank (ii) replace existing farm entrance with wall and construct new farm entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19459

• 20 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a two storey, four-bedroom dwelling house, an attached garage, a new site entrance, a bored well and a new effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works on lands

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19431

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a two-storey dwelling, treatment system / raised percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19350

• 5 Dec 2018Conditional

  is sought to build a detached domestic garage and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18806

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  for retention permission of modifications and additional structures to existing dwelling house. The main house was built prior to 1963 and this application refers to the modifications and additions carried out subsequently (conversion of existing garage to habitable space, construction of a free standing garage, construction of garage adjacent to house and extension to rear of house)

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17383

• 4 May 2017N/a

  retention of modifications and additional structures to existing dwelling house. The main house was built prior to 1963 and this application refers to the modifications and additions carried out subsequently (conversion of existing garage to habitable space, construction of a free standing garage, construction of garage adjacent to house and extension to rear of house

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17287

• 21 Mar 2017Refused

  to complete the filling and restoration of existing disused quarry and all other associated site works. This development comprises of activities which require a waste licence

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17171

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Westcourt North.

Architectural heritage

• Edmund Rice House, farm house, 1675–1680 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, built 1676, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey windbreak. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and blind stretchers to chicken wire-covered eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded half door. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six timber sash windows behind wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings (dormer attic) with concealed dressings framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Set in relandscaped grounds.

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 Westcourt North, about 1 in 5 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_3421 (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 Westcourt North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Westcourt North · Cúirt an Fhaoitigh Thuaidh

Area

1,864,710 m² (186.47 ha, 460.78 acres)

Civil parish

Callan, and its townlands

Barony

Callan

Electoral division

Callan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,932 people lived in 628 households in the Callan Rural electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclovan, Ballyclovan Meadows, Cappahayden, Cornyeal, Earlsland, Gortnacurragh, Pawlerth, Westcourt Commons, Westcourt Demesne

Placenames

Westcourt North 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.