Aughans

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughans, from 4,435 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres) to 217,937 m² (21.79 ha, 53.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aughans 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560698

• 21 Oct 2025N/a

  construct a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560685

• 10 Sept 2024Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING SHEDS AND THE REMAINS OF A FORMER DWELLING HOUSE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A NEW ENTRANCE, DETACHED GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460525

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, bored well and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23294

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  erect a new single storey dwelling house, connection to a new septic tank & percolation area and the erection of a new domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 23230

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22652

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 Aughans.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aughans.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aughans, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aughans.

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 Aughans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Aughans · Achadh an Bhábhúin

Area

222,844 m² (22.28 ha, 55.07 acres)

Civil parish

Castlebrack, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Garrymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 72 households in the Garrymore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanlug, Kilcavan

Placenames

Aughans 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.