Castletown

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 20 m² to 681,918 m² (68.19 ha, 168.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Castletown 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.

• 9 Jul 2024Conditional

  retain existing extensions to dwellinghouse and all associated ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2494

• 19 Aug 2021Conditional

  retain extensions as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21584

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 Castletown.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-042 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Known as 'Cody's Castle', this tower house was in almost perfect condition in 1800 (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 281). Now only the SE gable survives (Wth c. 8.4m, wall T c. 1.25m), three storeys high, and is constructed of limestone slabs. A slight base-batter is visible. The entrance was towards the E end of gable; and remains of a segmental pointed arch window visible towards the S end. Evidence of a N-S barrel-vault over ground floor. Foundations of bawn wall (LA028-042001-) are visible to the W. Described by Carrigan as 'Cody's castle from which it was originally called, stood within a raised area, enclosed by a wall, now almost entirely broken down. In 1800 the castle, was almost perfect, but most of it has been destroyed since then. At present all that remains is part of a side-wall 30 or 40 ft. high and eleven feet thick at the ground.' (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 281). 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

• LA028-042001 Bawn
  Description

  Known as 'Cody's Castle', it was in almost perfect condition in 1800 (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281). Now only the South East gable survives of the tower house (LA028-042). Foundations of bawn wall (LA028-0420010 are visible to the west. Described by Carrigan as 'Cody's castle from which it was originally called, stood within a raised area, enclosed by a wall, now almost entirely broken down. In 1800 the castle, was almost perfect, but most of it has been destroyed since then. At present all that remains is part of a side-wall 30 or 40 ft. high and eleven feet thick at the ground.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 281). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-043 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; a roughly oval enclosure (max. dim. c. 30m NW-SE). Visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 76-7). No visible surface remains. Aerial photograph (GB90.CN.16) shows a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse and with a narrower concentric outer fosse. The above aerial report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 02 February 2010 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 13 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1883 (ZIP).

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

Name

Castletown · Baile Chaisleáin Chriofainn

Area

1,499,389 m² (149.94 ha, 370.51 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Donaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghmore electoral division: 273 people in 99 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoolid, Donaghmore, Raheen Lower, Raheen Upper, Rathdowney

Placenames

Castletown 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.