Debicot

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Debicot, from 350 m² to 137,864 m² (13.79 ha, 34.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Debicot 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.

• 23 Feb 2024N/a

  New dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460084

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 Debicot.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Debicot.

Architectural heritage

• Aqueduct, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch canal aqueduct over river, c. 1830. Aqueduct carried Grant Canal (Mountmellick Branch) over. The canal no longer exists, but part of its banks are still in place.

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 Debicot, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2143 (ZIP).

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

Name

Debicot · Gob an Choite

Area

516,618 m² (51.66 ha, 127.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ardea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Dangans, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,524 people lived in 461 households in the Dangans electoral division. 53% of households owned their home. 64% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilmainham, Kilnacash, Strahard

Placenames

Debicot 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.