# Blackhills, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyleix, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Cnoc Dubh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 816,586 m² (81.66 ha, 201.78 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,463 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C6 Industrial, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Abbeyleix, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/abbeyleix.md
- Barony: Cullenagh
- Electoral division: Abbeyleix, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Abbeyleix electoral division: 2,979 people in 1,145 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27734
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100199
- Centre: latitude 52.919379, longitude -7.369765 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackhills, from 181 m² to 144,609 m² (14.46 ha, 35.73 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 265408: 144,609 m² (14.46 ha, 35.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265408.md
- Parcel 236876: 130,440 m² (13.04 ha, 32.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236876.md
- Parcel 4406036: 71,672 m² (7.17 ha, 17.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406036.md
- Parcel 239900: 58,506 m² (5.85 ha, 14.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239900.md
- Parcel 256492: 25,118 m² (2.51 ha, 6.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256492.md
- Parcel 5520454: 18,935 m² (1.89 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5520454.md
- Parcel 263338: 18,642 m² (1.86 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263338.md
- Parcel 260525: 17,317 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260525.md
- Parcel 2486294: 14,783 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2486294.md
- Parcel 252531: 10,886 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252531.md
- Parcel 2478981: 8,312 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478981.md
- Parcel 263545: 6,757 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263545.md
- Parcel 226480: 4,286 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226480.md
- Parcel 259245: 3,825 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259245.md
- Parcel 4901856: 3,637 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901856.md
- Parcel 255863: 3,493 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255863.md
- Parcel 259041: 3,432 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259041.md
- Parcel 232103: 2,915 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232103.md
- Parcel 4898311: 2,712 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898311.md
- Parcel 2450055: 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2450055.md
- Parcel 262833: 2,595 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262833.md
- Parcel 2476127: 2,421 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2476127.md
- Parcel 241100: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241100.md
- Parcel 255831: 2,265 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255831.md
- Parcel 5344305: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5344305.md
- Parcel 240818: 1,913 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/240818.md
- Parcel 250100: 1,208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/250100.md
- Parcel 266193: 1,115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/266193.md
- Parcel 255698: 1,063 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/255698.md
- Parcel 2476116: 794 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2476116.md
- Parcel 2450056: 428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2450056.md
- Parcel 242913: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/242913.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- C6 Industrial (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses): LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://laois.ie/planning-and-building/laois-county-council-plans/development-plan-consultation

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 10 Oct 2019, Laois County Council 19560: Refused. Retention. retain existing agricultural entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19560/0
- 25 Feb 2019, Laois County Council 19116: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain extensions to dwelling house comprising front entrance bay, first floor accommodation, new roof, single storey extension to rear, change of site boundaries and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19116/0

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## 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 Blackhills.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA023-028: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA023-028----. A circular enclosure visible on aerial photograph (BKS, 601465). A slight rise in the ground indicates the site. No other 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

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)

- Blackhill House, house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 12802343, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LA&regno=12802343. Detached three-bay two-storey late-Georgian house, c. 1810, incorporating fabric of earlier house to rear with wings. Renovated, c. 1920, with projecting glazed porch added. Now in use as nursing home.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Blackhills.
- 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/blackhills.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/blackhills.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/blackhills.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Blackhills 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)

- Ballytarsna: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballytarsna-100165.md
- Poormansbridge: https://everytownland.com/laois/poormansbridge.md
- Tonduff: https://everytownland.com/laois/tonduff.md
- Tullyroe: https://everytownland.com/laois/tullyroe.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.

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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.

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