# Beckfield, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathdowney, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Béal Átha Amhlaidh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,083,139 m² (108.31 ha, 267.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 275,904 m² (27.59 ha, 68.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathdowney, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathdowney.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Kilcoke, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 141 people lived in 53 households in the Kilcoke electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/28019 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100188 - Centre: latitude 52.887142, longitude -7.556529 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beckfield, from 272,059 m² (27.21 ha, 67.23 acres) to 536,221 m² (53.62 ha, 132.5 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4632680: 536,221 m² (53.62 ha, 132.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632680.md - Parcel 5733586: 275,904 m² (27.59 ha, 68.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5733586.md - Parcel 265520: 272,059 m² (27.21 ha, 67.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265520.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Beckfield 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) No planning application touches the townland of Beckfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Beckfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA028-010: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA028-010----. Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Cropmark of circular enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSI, S 76-7). Shown on 25" map as a bivallate enclosure (max. diam. c. 60m N-S). No visible surface 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 - LA028-012001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA028-012001-. Marked on the 1841 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; an almosy circular area (max. diam. c. 80m NW-SE). Reference to a partly square rath with a double rampart on W and N sides and the site of a building (LA028-012002-) in the interior (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 354). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as a 'Large square rath in Beckfield 20 or 30 perches west of this bridge. It is partly square, and has a double rampart on the north and west sides, the outer one being high and very wide and massive. A low irregular enclosure within the rath marks the site of some ancient building (LA028-012002-). Outside is 'the Old Street', where there are extensive foundations of buildings beneath the surface of the field (LA028-074002-). A castle(LA028-074001-) or large residence is entered here on the Down Survey Map of 1657.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 354) Townland originally called Ballyawley and was changed to Beckfield after a spinster lady named Beck or Rebeccca Flood who built Beckfield House more than a century ago. In 1665 John Fitzpatrick paid hearth-money for two hearths in Ballyawly. 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 - LA028-012002: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA028-012002-. Within moated site (LA028-012001-) is a low irregular enclosure. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 354). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as a 'Large square rath (LA028-012001-) in Beckfield 20 or 30 perches west of this bridge. It is partly square, and has a double rampart on the north and west sides, the outer one being high and very wide and massive. A low irregular enclosure within the rath marks the site of some ancient building. Outside is 'the Old Street', where there are extensive foundations of buildings beneath the surface of the field (LA028-074002-). A castle (LA028-074001-) or large residence is entered here on the Down Survey Map of 1657.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 354) Townland originally called Ballyawley and was changed to Beckfield after a spinster lady named Beck or Rebeccca Flood who built Beckfield House more than a century ago. In 1665 John Fitzpatrick paid hearth-money for two hearths in Ballyawly. 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 Beckfield. ## 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 Beckfield, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1911, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1911.zip (ZIP). - 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/beckfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/beckfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/beckfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Beckfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Akip: https://everytownland.com/laois/akip.md - Beckfield North: https://everytownland.com/laois/beckfield-north.md - Beckfield South: https://everytownland.com/laois/beckfield-south.md - Brocka: https://everytownland.com/laois/brocka.md - Coolfin: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolfin-100408.md - Coolfin: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolfin-100406.md - Kildellig: https://everytownland.com/laois/kildellig.md - Tinnaclohy: https://everytownland.com/laois/tinnaclohy.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. --- 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/beckfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/beckfield