# Cummer, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish An Comar.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,125,812 m² (312.58 ha, 772.4 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,458 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md
- Barony: Upperwoods
- Electoral division: Arderin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 292 people lived in 89 households in the Arderin electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28274
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100469
- Centre: latitude 53.052348, longitude -7.620991 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cummer, from 57 m² to 2,314,196 m² (231.42 ha, 571.85 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 245671: 2,314,196 m² (231.42 ha, 571.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245671.md
- Parcel 226917: 131,385 m² (13.14 ha, 32.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226917.md
- Parcel 234615: 96,328 m² (9.63 ha, 23.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234615.md
- Parcel 231161: 95,030 m² (9.5 ha, 23.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231161.md
- Parcel 253244: 76,514 m² (7.65 ha, 18.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253244.md
- Parcel 256722: 60,017 m² (6 ha, 14.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256722.md
- Parcel 237409: 59,598 m² (5.96 ha, 14.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237409.md
- Parcel 239370: 41,466 m² (4.15 ha, 10.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239370.md
- Parcel 5445125: 35,941 m² (3.59 ha, 8.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445125.md
- Parcel 251704: 32,663 m² (3.27 ha, 8.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251704.md
- Parcel 264794: 27,026 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264794.md
- Parcel 230997: 25,283 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230997.md
- Parcel 249452: 13,846 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249452.md
- Parcel 230212: 9,251 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230212.md
- Parcel 5445197: 8,177 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445197.md
- Parcel 267409: 7,971 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267409.md
- Parcel 5445117: 7,785 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445117.md
- Parcel 259504: 6,315 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259504.md
- Parcel 5445092: 5,910 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445092.md
- Parcel 227290: 5,719 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227290.md
- Parcel 5445082: 4,607 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445082.md
- Parcel 230477: 4,545 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230477.md
- Parcel 5445126: 4,458 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445126.md
- Parcel 5748348: 4,016 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5748348.md
- Parcel 5445102: 3,345 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445102.md
- Parcel 5445200: 3,117 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445200.md
- Parcel 265477: 2,945 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265477.md
- Parcel 253584: 2,667 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253584.md
- Parcel 5445201: 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445201.md
- Parcel 5445059: 1,945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445059.md
- Parcel 268161: 1,898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/268161.md
- Parcel 5445120: 1,548 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445120.md
- Parcel 254013: 1,519 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/254013.md
- Parcel 266146: 1,012 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/266146.md
- Parcel 5445134: 770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445134.md
- Parcel 5445206: 619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445206.md
- Parcel 5445094: 567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445094.md
- Parcel 6071639: 473 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6071639.md
- Parcel 267940: 441 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/267940.md
- Parcel 5445147: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445147.md
- Parcel 5445202: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445202.md
- Parcel 238130: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/238130.md
- Parcel 5445204: 76 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445204.md
- Parcel 5445210: 71 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445210.md
- Parcel 5445089: 57 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445089.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Cummer in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 3 Oct 2024, Laois County Council 24136: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and new entrance and all associated ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/24136/0
- 19 Sept 2024, Laois County Council 2460545: Conditional. Permission. 1)Continued use and extension to existing permitted sand and gravel pit registered under Section 261 of the Planning & Development Act 2000, as amended (site ref. QY05/10) within an overall application area of c. 12.2 hectares; 2)Extraction of sand and gravel (dry working) over an area of c. 8 hectares with processing and washing of material on site (closed loop water recycling system with associated silt storage lagoons 1,952.25m2), and all ancillary works and structures; 3)site facilities consisting of mobile processing plant, portacabin site office (6.25m²), portacabin welfare facility (18.9m²), serviced portaloo toilet, bunded fuel storage and refuelling pad with hydrocarbon interceptor, weighbridge, wheelwash, water supply borehole, perimeter berms, vegetation planting and fencing; 4) Access to the site will be via the existing sand & gravel pit entrance; 5) Restoration of the site to agricultural lands; and 6)The proposed extraction operational period is for 10 years plus 1 year to complete restoration (total duration sought 11 years). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Assessment (NIS) have been submitted with this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460545/0
- 13 Sept 2024, Laois County Council 2460532: N/a. Permission. 1) Continued use and extension to existing permitted sand and gravel pit registered under Section 261 of the Planning & Development Act 2000, as amended (site ref. QY05/10) within an overall application area of c. 12.2 hectares; 2) Extraction of sand and gravel (dry working) over an area of c. 8 hectares with processing and washing of material on site (closed loop water recycling system with associated silt storage lagoons 1,952.25m2), and all ancillary works and structures; 3) Site facilities consisting of mobile processing plant, portacabin site office (6.25m²), portacabin welfare facility (18.9m²), serviced portaloo toilet, bunded fuel storage and refuelling pad with hydrocarbon interceptor, weighbridge, wheelwash, water supply borehole, perimeter berms, vegetation planting and fencing; 4) Access to the site will be via the existing sand & gravel pit entrance; 5) Restoration of the site to agricultural lands; and 6) The proposed extraction operational period is for 10 years plus 1 year to complete restoration (total duration sought 11 years).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460532/0
- 20 Aug 2021, Laois County Council 21588: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling house, septic tank & percolation area together with a new site entrance, ancillary site service and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21588/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA011-008: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA011-008----. A flat topped circular mound (diam. c. 22m; H c. 1.75m) with slight dome in the centre. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cummer, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Cummer.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/cummer.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/cummer.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/cummer.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cummer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Forelacka (Co. Offaly): https://everytownland.com/offaly/forelacka.md
- Glendine: https://everytownland.com/laois/glendine-100613.md
- Glendossaun (Co. Offaly): https://everytownland.com/offaly/glendossaun.md
- Johnsborough: https://everytownland.com/laois/johnsborough.md
- Killeen: https://everytownland.com/laois/killeen-100721.md
- Mounthall: https://everytownland.com/laois/mounthall.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/cummer
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