Baunreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish An Barr Riabhach
- Area
- 741.6 ha
- 1,833 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 49,750 m² (4.97 ha, 12.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baunreagh, from 9,386 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres) to 7,251,405 m² (725.14 ha, 1,791.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Baunreagh 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
No planning application touches the townland of Baunreagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412
Recorded monuments
- LA006-009 Well
Description
In 1601 Hugh O'Neill on his march from the North of Ireland to Kinsale, Co. Cork, on his journey he camped in Glenleitir Valley in the Slieve Bloom Mountains. Not far from the source of the Silver River there is a well known as Hugh O'Neill's Well, this natural spring well may have provided water for Hugh O'Neill's encampment. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baunreagh.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Baunreagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Baunreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Baunreagh · An Barr Riabhach
- Area
- 7,416,128 m² (741.61 ha, 1,832.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Cardtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cardtown electoral division: 169 people in 55 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barlahan (Co. Offaly), Bordowin, Castleconor, Glendine, Glendineoregan, Glenkeen Upper, Glenletter (Co. Offaly), Glenregan (Co. Offaly), Gorteenameale
- Placenames
- Baunreagh 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.