# Ardlea, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish Ard Léin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 638,032 m² (63.8 ha, 157.66 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,562 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md
- Barony: Maryborough West
- Electoral division: Clonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 693 people lived in 227 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27844
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100029
- Centre: latitude 52.980726, longitude -7.382501 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardlea, from 1,150 m² to 255,905 m² (25.59 ha, 63.24 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 251305: 255,905 m² (25.59 ha, 63.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251305.md
- Parcel 243009: 87,693 m² (8.77 ha, 21.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243009.md
- Parcel 264171: 72,376 m² (7.24 ha, 17.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264171.md
- Parcel 248403: 59,661 m² (5.97 ha, 14.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248403.md
- Parcel 230333: 28,881 m² (2.89 ha, 7.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230333.md
- Parcel 237077: 25,902 m² (2.59 ha, 6.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237077.md
- Parcel 256856: 20,759 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256856.md
- Parcel 231948: 19,323 m² (1.93 ha, 4.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231948.md
- Parcel 246476: 16,784 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246476.md
- Parcel 262396: 14,896 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262396.md
- Parcel 5725722: 6,516 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725722.md
- Parcel 4980729: 4,608 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4980729.md
- Parcel 5121913: 4,091 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5121913.md
- Parcel 244829: 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244829.md
- Parcel 243112: 3,171 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243112.md
- Parcel 267268: 2,433 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267268.md
- Parcel 244463: 2,236 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244463.md
- Parcel 225368: 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225368.md
- Parcel 4420577: 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4420577.md
- Parcel 265618: 1,897 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/265618.md
- Parcel 261829: 1,881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261829.md
- Parcel 5678475: 1,150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5678475.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ardlea 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)

6 applications, newest first.

- 19 Sept 2026, Laois County Council 2660663: N/a. Retention. The proposed development consits of the retention of a livestock shed with all associated facilities and site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660663/0
- 29 Apr 2026, Laois County Council 2660243: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Retain Change of Use from Domestic Store to Short-Term letting and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660243/0
- 11 Mar 2025, Laois County Council 2560112: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct new dwelling house with attached garage, septic tank and percolation area,new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560112/0
- 5 Apr 2022, Laois County Council 22198: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new extension to side of our existing dwelling and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22198/0
- 4 Dec 2020, Laois County Council 20639: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. retain amendments made to a previously permitted permission P.05/969 to include changes to the dwelling house, siting of dwelling house and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20639/0
- 26 Sept 2019, Laois County Council 19539: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance and septic tank with raised filter constructed percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19539/0

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## 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 Ardlea.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA017-010: Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA017-010----. Reference to a horizontal watermill (NMI files). No visible remains. 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 Ardlea.

## 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 Ardlea, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardlea.
- 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/ardlea.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/ardlea.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/ardlea.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Ardlea, Mountrath: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/laois/ardlea-mountrath.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballynamuddagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballynamuddagh.md
- Cloosecullen: https://everytownland.com/laois/cloosecullen.md
- Coolnacartan: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolnacartan.md
- Doon: https://everytownland.com/laois/doon-100529.md
- Rosskelton: https://everytownland.com/laois/rosskelton.md
- Tinnakill: https://everytownland.com/laois/tinnakill-101080.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.

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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/ardlea
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/ardlea