Orlagh

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Orlagh, from 174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres) to 174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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.

• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 1 Oct 2019Grant permission for retention

  Retention for change of use of the site from religious instruction and the recreational activities of a religious body to the use of Orlagh House (Protected Structure ref. 374) as a wedding venue and corporate event space/destination with ancillary accommodation facilities.

  Retention · South Dublin County Council, SD19A/0059

• 16 May 2012Refuse permission

  Construction of a single storey , 3 bedroomed house of area 200sq.m. approx. with grass roof; ancillary development will include a new well, a surface water soakway and a waste water treatment system, all on a site of approx.12 hectares (30 acres). Access to the house will be by way of a new internal access road connected to the existing access road with an existing entrance on to Kilakee Road.

  Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD12A/0089

• 30 Mar 2006Refuse permission

  Split level, two storey / single storey dwelling, attached double garage, enviropak effluent treatment system, percolation area, landscaping and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD05A/0853

• 9 Apr 2003Refuse permission

  61 metre high guyed radio transmitter mast together with transmitter house and protection fencing.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD03A/0203

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 Orlagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Orlagh.

Architectural heritage

• Orlagh House, country house, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey over basement former country house, c.1790, now in use as a retreat centre and Augustinian novitiate. Five-bay two-storey wing to each side, double staircase to projecting entrance porch, and two-storey extension to rere, all added c.1875. Smooth rendered walls. uPVC casement windows throughout. Full-height ground floor windows with architrave surrounds to wings. Pitched slate roof with central hexagonal bellcote and gable end chimney stacks. Hipped slate roofs to wings. Pair of two-storey flat-roofed accommodation blocks projecting from rere. Simple geometrical tubular gate and rendered screen walls to road.

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 Orlagh, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3154 (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 Orlagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Orlagh · Orlach

Area

174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres)

Civil parish

Cruagh, and its townlands

Barony

Uppercross

Electoral division

Bohernabreena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,672 people lived in 1,740 households in the Bohernabreena electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Mountpelier, Oldcourt, Woodtown

Placenames

Orlagh 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.