Castlecuffe

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecuffe, from 26 m² to 597,231 m² (59.72 ha, 147.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlecuffe 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.

• 19 May 2025Refused

  construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, bored well and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2539

• 20 Mar 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house,shed,waste water treatment system and polishing filter,new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460152

• 12 Aug 2022N/a

  retain an existing agricultural structure to include the storage of agricultural machinery, organic and inorganic fertilisers, including granular artificial fertiliser and biosolids for use as soil conditioners and improvers as part of my existing agricultural operations

  Retention · Laois County Council, 22499

• 2 Aug 2022Conditional

  construct 1 No. dwelling, garage, septic tank & percolation area, new entrance onto public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22479

• 21 Apr 2022Conditional

  reconstruct and extend existing house incorporating the construction of a 2nd Floor and construction of stone front boundary wall 1.5m high

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22249

• 20 Apr 2022N/a

  retain development consisting of a) renovating and extending existing dwelling house including raising roof on main roof, altering fenestration, building an extension to side and rear, b) new septic tank, c) demolition of outbuildings, d) new domestic garage, e) new front boundary wall and widening entrance, f) alterations to western boundary and full planning permission for a polishing filter and all ancillary and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22241

• 14 May 2021Conditional

  retention of garage / outbuilding as constructed

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21331

• 7 Aug 2019Conditional

  retain existing dwelling house as built including granny flat to rear, site boundaries and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19453

• 6 Aug 2019Conditional

  construct a new standalone classroom, a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, replacing windows and external doors to the existing school, and associated siteworks.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19451

• 12 Mar 2019N/a

  retain granny flat extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, amendments to elevations previously granted under Pl. File No. 124/85, new site boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19145

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clonaslee Eskers and Derry Bog SAC 000859
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonaslee Eskers And Derry Bog 000859

Recorded monuments

• LA002-008 House - fortified house
  Description

  Situated in flat low-lying land. A large limestone-built, semi-fortified house (max. dims. 30.25m by 20.5m, wall T 1.3m and 0.9m) of H-plan with projecting wings at either end of a central rectangular block. Jacobean type chimney stacks and associated fire places similar to those at Ballynakill castle (LA002-011----). No evidence of outer defences. Would appear to be a mid to late seventeenth century building. Possibly built as early as 1560 by Sir Charles Coote, in the rebellion of 1641 the castle was abandoned and has since fallen into ruins. H-Plan house with front façade facing S, central rectangular block flanked on E and W by tall projecting rectangular towers surmounted by tall chimney stacks. Central recessed block set back 4.85m from front of projecting flanking wings. N walls built of roughly coursed limestone rubble with good evidence of external render with false quoins stones depicted with smooth finish of render and through use of alternating colour of black and white quoins, this treatment of the quoins has also been applied to the window surrounds. Front door in centre of S façade of recessed central block. Fireplaces in both flanking wings which were probably the private chambers with the public rooms contained within the central block. 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

• LA002-015 Enclosure
  Description

  An irregularly shaped platform (dims. c. 26m N-S, c. 33m E-W) situated on top of S side of valley, and defined by a scarp (max H 1m) from E-W, and at NW by a slight scarp with remains of stone wall on top. 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

• LA006-003 Enclosure
  Description

  Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but appears on aerial photograph (ACAP, V 300 723-4) as a large enclosure. 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

Architectural heritage

• Castlecuffe, stables, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stable complex, c. 1810, comprising group of detached rubble sandstone outbuildings. Now in ruins. Site of Castlecuffe to site. Castlecuffe now demolished. Gateway to site comprising sandstone piers with wrought-iron gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Castlecuffe, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Castlecuffe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Castlecuffe · Baile an tSagairt

Area

5,157,829 m² (515.78 ha, 1,274.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanman, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Castlecuffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

423 people lived in 136 households in the Castlecuffe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykenneen Lower, Ballykenneen Upper, Ballynahimmy, Barlahan (Co. Offaly), Barradoos, Brogherla Big, Coolagh, Killinaparson, Killoughy (Co. Offaly), Larragan

Placenames

Castlecuffe 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.