Cuddagh

177 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuddagh, from 37 m² to 408,577 m² (40.86 ha, 100.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Cuddagh 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.

• 22 Jul 2025Conditional

  renovate existing dwelling and construct new extension to rear requiring demolition of existing rear extension as well as permission to decommission existing septic tank and provide new septic tank and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560445

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  changes to that granted under pl. ref. 22/169, namely change of design and location of dwelling house and garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460353

• 24 Mar 2022Conditional

  construct one new dwelling house with detached garage, new vehicular access from public road, domestic waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22169

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey extensions to both the South and North of the existing dwelling, with the construction of a single storey extension to the south and a single storey extension to the North, Internal modifications, a proposed septic tank with percolation area and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19676

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  construct 64 place cubicle shed with outside slatted tank and associated works, also RETENTION of two existing sheds

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17344

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 Cuddagh.

Recorded monuments

• LA016-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 44m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth c. 3.4m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H. c. 0.8m). 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

• LA022-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 30m). In undulating countryside. 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

• LA022-010 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In undulating countryside. 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 Cuddagh.

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 Cuddagh, 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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Cuddagh · Codach

Area

4,905,861 m² (490.59 ha, 1,212.26 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Donore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

486 people lived in 157 households in the Donore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboe, Badgerisland, Ballycleary, Camcloon, Castletrench, Clonfad, Coole, Corrigeen, Knockamullin, Newtown, Rathphelan, Skeagh

Placenames

Cuddagh 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.