Clashboy
Clashboy is a townland in the civil parish of Fossy or Timahoe, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An Chlais Bhuí.
- Area
- 65.9 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 40,416 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clashboy, from 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 132,922 m² (13.29 ha, 32.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clashboy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Dec 2020Conditional
construct a domestic dwelling with integrated car port and domestic garage, install a wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, a recessed vehicular entrance and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20652
27 Nov 2020N/a
construct a domestic dwelling with integrated car port and domestic garage, install a wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, a recessed vehicular entrance and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 20618
4 Nov 2020Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system together with all ancillary services
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20572
19 Dec 2019Conditional
construct a new dwelling house and garage, treatment system with percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19728
23 Mar 2017Conditional
construct a 20-unit milking parlour, drafting facilities, slatted area, calving areas and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17141
21 Mar 2017N/a
construct a 20-unit milking parlour, drafting facilities, slatted area, calving areas and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 17135
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clashboy.
Recorded monuments
- LA019-017 Enclosure
Description
Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; a roughly oval enclosure (max. dim. c. 40m NW-SE). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clashboy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Clashboy, about 1 in 5 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 Clashboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Clashboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Clashboy · An Chlais Bhuí
- Area
- 658,710 m² (65.87 ha, 162.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fossy or Timahoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cullenagh
- Electoral division
- Fossy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 183 people lived in 59 households in the Fossy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Fossy Lower, Fossy Upper, Orchard Lower, Orchard Upper
- Placenames
- Clashboy 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.