Colt

176 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Colt, from 146 m² to 655,763 m² (65.58 ha, 162.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 87 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 Colt 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.

• 3 Apr 2026N/a

  extend existing storage building and change site boundaries to allow for same, also retention permission for extension to existing storage building granted planning pl. ref 15/33 and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660187

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560779

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  erect a 24m lattice telecommunications support structure on a 1.2 metre high raised foundation (providing an overall height of 25.2 metres) together with associated antennas and dishes and to remove the existing 15 metre lattice telecommunications structure with antennas (providing an overall height of 16.5 metres). The proposed development is all enclosed within an existing compound

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560437

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  de-commission existing septic tank and replace with waste water treatment system and polishing filter, permission to build new extension to rear of our existing dwelling and retention permission for existing shed

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560346

• 5 Nov 2024Conditional

  erect a 24m lattice telecommunications support structure on a 1.2 metre high raised foundation (providing an overall height of 25.2 metres) together with associated antennas and dishes and to remove the existing 15 metre lattice telecommunications structure with antennas (providing an overall height of 16.5 metres). The proposed development is all enclosed within an existing compound

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460664

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  retain an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Plan Ref No. 11/190) together with associated ground equipment within a fenced compound and access track

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21777

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  the erection of a guyed wind monitoring mast with instruments, 100m in height for a period of six years. the purpose of the proposed mast is to access the suitability of the company's adjacent lands for wind farm development

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21728

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  construct dwellinghouse, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20624

• 12 Nov 2020Conditional

  construct a single storey dwellinghouse, entrance, garage, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20588

• 21 Aug 2019Conditional

  retain dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19480

• 2 Aug 2019N/a

  retain the development of the dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19446

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct a storey and a half dwelling, treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18196

• 27 Feb 2018Refused

  construct a new storey and a half style dwelling, septic tank, percolation area and use the existing agriculture entrance including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18112

• 19 Feb 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1884

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 Colt.

Recorded monuments

• LA017-020 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1910 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (max. dims. 45m NE-SE; 40m NW-SE). In a low-lying marshy area. 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

• LA017-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of oval enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSI, S 163-4). 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

• LA018-022 Enclosure
  Description

  A semicircular enclosure hachured from SE-NW on 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Portion of low bank (C c. 36.5m S-W) and external fosse survive at S and W. 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

• LA018-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 46m) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 2.8m, int. H c. 0.5m, ext. H c. 1.5m) at S and W, and an external fosse except at S. No evidence of original entrance. 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 Colt.

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 Colt, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Colt · Colt

Area

8,751,719 m² (875.17 ha, 2,162.6 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Colt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

180 people lived in 68 households in the Colt electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamuddagh, Ballyroan, Ballyruin, Clonaddadoran, Cloosecullen, Coole, Coolnacartan, Corbally, Mounteagle, Oldtown, Raheen

Placenames

Colt 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.