Curriersbog

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curriersbog, from 18 m² to 128,180 m² (12.82 ha, 31.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 54 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential 2 (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Transport & Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1General Business (Commercial, retail)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  relocate 102 no. car parking spaces, with provision for lighting, car chargers and associated fencing, underground cabling and associated site works. The proposed development will be accessed off the existing access from the N77. Planning permission is being sought for a period of 5 years.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560179

• 28 Mar 2025N/a

  relocate 102 no. car parking spaces, with provision for lighting, car chargers and associated fencing, underground cabling and associated site works. The proposed development will be accessed off the existing access from the N77. Planning permission is being sought for a period of 5 years.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560165

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  retain development consisting of a shed containing car wash equipment, the oil tank behind it and signage fixed to the front wall of the shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460322

• 5 Jun 2024N/a

  retain development consisting of a shed containing car wash equipment, the oil tank behind it and signage fixed to the front wall of the shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460314

• 30 Jan 2024Conditional

  construct a two-storey building with a height of c. 11m, for the provision of 9 no. classrooms, canteen, office, toilets and stairwell, with a total floorspace of c.1,035m2 within ESB’s existing training campus. The proposed development will also consist of 53 no. additional car parking spaces, set out over an area of c.2,005m2, linking to the existing on-site drainage. The proposed development will also consist of bicycle spaces, footpaths, lighting poles, underground cabling and all associated site works. The proposed development will be accessed off the existing access from the N77. Planning permission is being sought for a period of 5 years.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460041

• 29 Sept 2023Conditional

  retain extensions and amendments to previously grant planning permissions 15/171 & 14/430.

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360406

• 28 Sept 2023N/a

  retain extensions and amendments to previously grant planning permissions 15/171 & 14/430.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2360404

• 20 Jul 2021Conditional

  erect 3 no single storey prefabricated temporary units, comprising of 2 no. 98 sq. m classrooms and 1 no. 102 sq. m training room, external ramps & steps and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21521

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  retain a 24 hour fuel card dispensing pump and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 1921

• 16 Jan 2019N/a

  retain a 24 hour fuel card dispensing pump and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 1916

• 27 Sept 2018Conditional

  erect an extension to side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18585

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  retain a 40,000 Litre underground petrol storage tank beside the 60,000 litre under ground diesel tank to the rear of the site instead of 25,000 litre underground petrol tanks which was previously granted planning permission with reference 16/559 and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18128

• 5 Mar 2018N/a

  Retail a 40,000 Litre underground petrol storage tank beside the 60,000 litre under ground diesel tank to the rear of the site instead of 25,000 litre underground petrol tanks which was previously granted planning permission with reference 16/559 and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 18117

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 Curriersbog.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Curriersbog.

Architectural heritage

• Barracks, 1920–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former barracks hut, built c. 1925, formerly in the Curragh Camp and relocated to the Abbeyleix Road c. 1970. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, two short chimney stacks, uPVC gutter and cast-iron downpipe. Sheeted corrugated-iron walls with square-headed openings and timber sills, with timber six pane fixed windows and replacement door with small rectangular overlight. Set back from the road fronted by a low rendered wall with block piers framing a matching decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate and vehicular gate. Flat roof, corrugated-iron shed to rear.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Curriersbog · Móin an Chóiritheora

Area

298,594 m² (29.86 ha, 73.78 acres)

Civil parish

Borris, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Portlaoighise Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Portlaoighise Rural electoral division: 17,352 people in 5,443 households; 64% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonminam, Meelick, Togher

Placenames

Curriersbog 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.