Westcourt Commons

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Westcourt Commons, from 462 m² to 146,939 m² (14.69 ha, 36.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Westcourt Commons 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.

• 21 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the proposed development to consist of temporary road widening works and construction of temporary sections of stoned roads and all ancillary works on the R691 and R695 at bends and junctions to enable the delivery of turbine components. These works consist of; • Temporary widening of section of the R691 in the townland of Booly comprising construction of a stoned area to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road off the R691 and R695 in the townland of Ballyclovan to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road off the R691 in the townland of Scotsborough to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. The works at this location will include construction of a temporary bridge crossing and all associated drainage and sediment protection, a temporary crane hardstand, temporary welfare facilities and carparking, temporary refuelling area, temporary bridge assembly area and temporary stockpiles. Advisory Note: There are also works required in County Tipperary, and a separate amendment planning application will be made for these to Tipperary County Council. The planning application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460291

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 Westcourt Commons.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Westcourt Commons.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Westcourt Commons.

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 Commons, 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_3418 (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 Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Westcourt Commons · Coimíneas Chúirt an Fhaoitigh

Area

478,602 m² (47.86 ha, 118.27 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, Ballywalter, Greatoak, Kylevehagh Commons, Pawlerth, Westcourt North

Placenames

Westcourt Commons 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.