Akip

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Akip, from 590 m² to 158,668 m² (15.87 ha, 39.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Akip 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.

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  retain Pergola and Permission to construct domestic garage and all associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360316

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new road entrance, septic tank and percolation area as well as all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 23136

• 14 Apr 2023N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new road entrance, septic tank and percolation area as well as all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23121

• 1 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct dwelling house, garage, entrance, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20448

• 17 Aug 2020Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the side and carry out alterations to the front porch of our existing house

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20421

• 18 Jun 2020Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, garage, septic tank with percolation system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20295

• 21 Aug 2017Conditional

  (a) retain mobile home for 2 years period and (b) PERMISSION for dwellinghouse, septic tank with percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17451

• 19 Jun 2017Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17316

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 Akip.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-027 Church
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In undulating countryside. According to Carrigan (1905 vol. 2, 353), the church and Graveyard were uprooted and tilled c. 1830. No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'There was a church here in remote times, but its remains were destroyed long ago. The graveyard (LA028-027001-), which was used for interments down to the beginning of the 19th century, was uprooted and tilled about 1830. The site of the church and graveyard occupies the top of a green , grassy knoll in the "Churchfield" of Akip and is well known (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 353). 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

• LA028-027001 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating countryside. Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Site of Church (LA028-027) and graveyard (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 353). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'There was a church here in remote times, but its remains were destroyed long ago. The graveyard, which was used for interments down to the beginning of the 19th century, was uprooted and tilled about 1830. The site of the church and graveyard occupies the top of a green , grassy knoll in the 'Churchfield' of Akip and is well known (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 353). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (max. diam. c. 50m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3.4m; int. H c. 0.8m, ext. H c. 1.7m) and external fosse (Wth c. 3.9m, ext. D c. 1.1m). No visible evidence of original entrance. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1911 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Akip with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Akip · Áth Cip

Area

1,225,968 m² (122.6 ha, 302.94 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdowney, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Donaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghmore electoral division: 273 people in 99 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoolid, Beckfield, Clonburren (White), Coolfin, Kilcoke, Raheen Lower, Raheenphelan Glebe, Tinnaclohy

Placenames

Akip 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.