# Aghadreen, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fossy or Timahoe, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Achadh Draighin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,011,221 m² (201.12 ha, 496.98 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 41,714 m² (4.17 ha, 10.31 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Fossy or Timahoe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/fossy-or-timahoe.md - Barony: Cullenagh - Electoral division: Fossy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 183 people lived in 59 households in the Fossy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27980 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100006 - Centre: latitude 52.909617, longitude -7.173191 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadreen, from 634 m² to 398,254 m² (39.83 ha, 98.41 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4441118: 398,254 m² (39.83 ha, 98.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4441118.md - Parcel 263810: 294,784 m² (29.48 ha, 72.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263810.md - Parcel 246716: 177,611 m² (17.76 ha, 43.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246716.md - Parcel 262707: 154,886 m² (15.49 ha, 38.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262707.md - Parcel 236984: 127,969 m² (12.8 ha, 31.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236984.md - Parcel 246677: 111,701 m² (11.17 ha, 27.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246677.md - Parcel 250111: 111,008 m² (11.1 ha, 27.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250111.md - Parcel 268495: 97,765 m² (9.78 ha, 24.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268495.md - Parcel 229139: 85,128 m² (8.51 ha, 21.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229139.md - Parcel 259253: 79,930 m² (7.99 ha, 19.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259253.md - Parcel 245702: 55,890 m² (5.59 ha, 13.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245702.md - Parcel 228059: 50,131 m² (5.01 ha, 12.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228059.md - Parcel 267880: 49,773 m² (4.98 ha, 12.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267880.md - Parcel 255722: 46,020 m² (4.6 ha, 11.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255722.md - Parcel 226299: 37,409 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226299.md - Parcel 249975: 26,636 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249975.md - Parcel 2459803: 20,766 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2459803.md - Parcel 249969: 20,707 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249969.md - Parcel 3627803: 8,736 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3627803.md - Parcel 2448547: 7,537 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2448547.md - Parcel 257775: 6,760 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257775.md - Parcel 5484614: 5,529 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5484614.md - Parcel 4980563: 5,091 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4980563.md - Parcel 6034026: 4,140 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6034026.md - Parcel 263126: 3,228 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263126.md - Parcel 3588602: 3,034 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3588602.md - Parcel 225392: 1,355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/225392.md - Parcel 5484610: 634 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5484610.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghadreen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 14 Mar 2022, Laois County Council 22138: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. extend and renovate existing dwelling house by way of adding storey and a half style conversion, alter elevations and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22138/0 - 9 Mar 2022, Laois County Council 22121: N/a. Permission. extend and renovate existing dwelling house by way of adding storey and a half style conversion, alter elevations and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22121/0 - 2 Mar 2022, Laois County Council 2298: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to alter previously approved design in planning reference 20/514 for the construction of a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2298/0 - 7 Oct 2020, Laois County Council 20514: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20514/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghadreen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA025-031: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-031----. Marked on the 1839 and 1909 eds OS 6-inch map. Situated in a valley. No visible surface remains. Site was levelled approx. 10 yrs ago. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghadreen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aghadreen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Aghadreen. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghadreen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghadreen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghadreen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghadreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coolglass: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolglass.md - Knockacrin: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockacrin.md - Knockbaun: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockbaun.md - Knocklead: https://everytownland.com/laois/knocklead.md - Moyadd: https://everytownland.com/laois/moyadd.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghadreen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/aghadreen