# Cush Upper, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmanman, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish An Chois Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 992,312 m² (99.23 ha, 245.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,986 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmanman, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/kilmanman.md - Barony: Tinnahinch - Electoral division: Clonaslee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 954 people lived in 347 households in the Clonaslee electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28403 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100478 - Centre: latitude 53.185412, longitude -7.511933 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cush Upper, from 490 m² to 135,475 m² (13.55 ha, 33.48 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4258010: 135,475 m² (13.55 ha, 33.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4258010.md - Parcel 228259: 123,242 m² (12.32 ha, 30.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228259.md - Parcel 229515: 95,900 m² (9.59 ha, 23.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229515.md - Parcel 3405518: 84,057 m² (8.41 ha, 20.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3405518.md - Parcel 257730: 83,557 m² (8.36 ha, 20.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257730.md - Parcel 263261: 71,935 m² (7.19 ha, 17.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263261.md - Parcel 259610: 50,851 m² (5.09 ha, 12.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259610.md - Parcel 245515: 38,952 m² (3.9 ha, 9.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245515.md - Parcel 225736: 37,671 m² (3.77 ha, 9.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225736.md - Parcel 264986: 35,589 m² (3.56 ha, 8.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264986.md - Parcel 238389: 34,608 m² (3.46 ha, 8.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238389.md - Parcel 229149: 29,925 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229149.md - Parcel 228907: 29,075 m² (2.91 ha, 7.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228907.md - Parcel 259581: 23,986 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259581.md - Parcel 255102: 16,505 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255102.md - Parcel 248057: 13,253 m² (1.33 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248057.md - Parcel 238612: 13,035 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238612.md - Parcel 4251369: 12,517 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4251369.md - Parcel 264326: 11,899 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264326.md - Parcel 257922: 11,888 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257922.md - Parcel 246406: 8,655 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246406.md - Parcel 241301: 7,120 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241301.md - Parcel 238496: 7,107 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238496.md - Parcel 246352: 4,724 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246352.md - Parcel 3194950: 4,210 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3194950.md - Parcel 264158: 3,596 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264158.md - Parcel 261427: 490 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261427.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cush Upper 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Jun 2021, Laois County Council 21415: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey dwelling, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and raised bed percolation area, construction of new walls and piers to the existing entrance including all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21415/0 - 9 Jan 2019, Laois County Council 196: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a two storey dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/196/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Annaghmore Lough Fen (Offaly), site code 000413 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cush Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cush Upper. ## 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 Cush Upper, 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 low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1969, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1969.zip (ZIP). - 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/cush-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/cush-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/cush-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cush Upper 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) - Annaghmore (Co. Offaly): https://everytownland.com/offaly/annaghmore-180027.md - Brockagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/brockagh.md - Cloonagh More: https://everytownland.com/laois/cloonagh-more.md - Cush Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/cush-lower.md - Gorteen (Co. Offaly): https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteen-180731.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. --- 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/cush-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/cush-upper