Aghamaddock
Aghamaddock is a townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Stradbally, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Achadh Mhadóg.
- Area
- 112.9 ha
- 279 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,665 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghamaddock, from 238 m² to 494,108 m² (49.41 ha, 122.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghamaddock 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Feb 2026Conditional
Convert and change the use of an existing domestic garage/store including alterations to the front (west) and side (south) elevations to accommodate a one bedroom living unit with an integrated plant room all for use ancillary to the adjacent community dwelling house, together with ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660062
25 Feb 2025Conditional
construct an extension to an existing agricultural livestock shed including underground slurry storage tanks and an internal livestock handling area
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560096
24 Feb 2025N/a
construct an extension to an existing agricultural livestock shed including underground slurry storage tanks and an internal livestock handling area
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560091
27 Jun 2023Conditional
Modify and re-instate existing dwelling house and add new extension to same and to demolish existing shed. Also retention permission for 2 no. mobile homes for the duration of the building project
Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 2360242
18 Nov 2021Refused
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21781
16 Nov 2021N/a
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission · Laois County Council, 21775
5 Nov 2021N/a
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21755
11 Dec 2019Conditional
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19687
21 Feb 2019N/a
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19110
28 Nov 2018N/a
construct an extension to dwelling house, necessary renovations to same house, install new waste water treatment system, percolation area, permission to relocate/upgrade splayed entrance and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18720
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghamaddock.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghamaddock.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghamaddock.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Aghamaddock, 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 Aghamaddock.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghamaddock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Aghamaddock · Achadh Mhadóg
- Area
- 1,129,266 m² (112.93 ha, 279.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Stradbally
- Electoral division
- Stradbally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,912 people lived in 725 households in the Stradbally electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghmore, Ballinteskin, Carricksallagh, Oldmill, Stradbally, Tursalla
- Placenames
- Aghamaddock 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.