Avoley

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Avoley, from 369 m² to 263,880 m² (26.39 ha, 65.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Avoley 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.

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  construct a new vintage vehicle storage shed

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560313

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  retain the following: 1 - existing stables and domestic shed. 2 - existing garage and associated hardstanding area. 3- hardstanding area for cars and associated roadside entrance

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560209

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  (A) construct 3no. 3 bedroom short-term let wooden log cabins, including the installation of 2no. associated onsite wastewater treatment systems. (B) The enlargement and development of an existing water pond, and the provision of access laneways and pathways within the development. (C) The construction of a polytunnel, a playground area, ground mounted solar panels and 2no. bicycle storage sheds. Including all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460773

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  construct (i) Slatted shed with loose area (ii) Walled silage pit and all associated site works. Demolition of existing storage shed is also required

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460475

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  carry out internal renovations to the existing dwelling with a new 2 storey extension to the rear of the existing family home, retention of domestic garage and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460469

• 5 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission to construct (i) Slatted shed with loose area (ii) Walled silage pit and all associated site works. Demolition of existing storage shed is also required

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460458

• 4 Dec 2019Conditional

  construct dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19671

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 Avoley.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Avoley.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Avoley · An Athbhuaile

Area

1,303,417 m² (130.34 ha, 322.08 acres)

Civil parish

Rosenallis, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Mountmellick Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountmellick Rural electoral division: 1,090 people in 383 households; 94% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camira Glebe, Cloonagh, Garroon or Summergrove, Graigue, Mullaghanard or Derreen, Townparks

Placenames

Avoley 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.