Heath

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Heath, from 1,172 m² to 327,341 m² (32.73 ha, 80.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Heath 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.

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  for the construction of storey and a half type dwelling, domestic garage, bored well, septic tank & percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 20258

• 29 Apr 2019Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank and for the construction of a silage pit, concrete apron with all associated site development works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19168

• 28 Mar 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a bungalow dwelling, detached domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, splayed entrance, bored well and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 19121

• 4 Mar 2019N/a

  is sought for the construction of a bungalow dwelling, detached domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, splayed entrance, bored well and all associated site development works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1984

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 Heath.

Recorded monuments

• CW019-015 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as circular area enclosed by bank (max. diam. c. 40m). No visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Heath, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Heath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Heath · An Fraoch

Area

785,098 m² (78.51 ha, 194 acres)

Civil parish

Lorum, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone East

Electoral division

Corries, the unit of the census

Census 2022

560 people lived in 192 households in the Corries electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycormick, Ballyloughan, Corries or Corry More, Lorum

Placenames

Heath 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.