Bigbog

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bigbog, from 54 m² to 271,366 m² (27.14 ha, 67.06 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 Bigbog 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  amend the solar farm permitted under Laois County Council Reg. Ref. 17/532 and consists of a revised solar PV panel arrangement and maximum height of panels up to 3.2 metres; a reconfigured internal access route network; reduced number of MV transformers; provision of string inverters; revised CCTV arrangement; a spare parts storage container; weather stations; monitoring house; toilet facilities; and all other ancillary works associated with the development above and below ground including security fencing and gates, cabling, landscaping and drainage works. It is sought to increase the maximum export capacity of the solar farm to 80 MW and to increase the operational life of the solar farm from 30 to 40 years from the date of commissioning. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560237

• 14 Nov 2024Unconditional

  extend time on planning permission 19/490

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 24149

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  construct new dwelling house and garage, new site entrance, new treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20641

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 Bigbog.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bigbog.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bigbog.

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

Name

Bigbog · An Mhóin Mhór

Area

836,905 m² (83.69 ha, 206.8 acres)

Civil parish

Dysartenos, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Timogue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Timogue electoral division: 366 people in 128 households; 95% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bauteogue, Coolnabacky, Loughteeog, Timogue

Placenames

Bigbog 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.