# Debicot, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardea, barony of Portnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish Gob an Choite. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 516,618 m² (51.66 ha, 127.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,217 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardea, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/ardea.md - Barony: Portnahinch - Electoral division: Dangans, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28452 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100482 - Centre: latitude 53.11996, longitude -7.294935 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Debicot, from 350 m² to 137,864 m² (13.79 ha, 34.07 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 237252: 137,864 m² (13.79 ha, 34.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237252.md - Parcel 249122: 105,680 m² (10.57 ha, 26.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249122.md - Parcel 256601: 74,836 m² (7.48 ha, 18.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256601.md - Parcel 256651: 57,539 m² (5.75 ha, 14.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256651.md - Parcel 258302: 25,251 m² (2.53 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258302.md - Parcel 263887: 21,053 m² (2.11 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263887.md - Parcel 239367: 13,659 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239367.md - Parcel 233951: 13,377 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233951.md - Parcel 231015: 10,988 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231015.md - Parcel 226555: 9,753 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226555.md - Parcel 251458: 9,385 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251458.md - Parcel 225440: 7,050 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225440.md - Parcel 236404: 5,336 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236404.md - Parcel 225552: 4,470 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225552.md - Parcel 259841: 3,741 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259841.md - Parcel 246504: 3,020 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246504.md - Parcel 261877: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261877.md - Parcel 263260: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263260.md - Parcel 267923: 1,830 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/267923.md - Parcel 247902: 1,791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/247902.md - Parcel 265836: 1,668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/265836.md - Parcel 262154: 350 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/262154.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 23 Feb 2024, Laois County Council 2460084: N/a. Permission, 1 home. New dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460084/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Debicot. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Debicot. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Aqueduct, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 12800839, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LA®no=12800839. 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. ## 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 Debicot, 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2143, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2143.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/debicot.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/debicot.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/debicot.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Debicot 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) - Kilmainham: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilmainham.md - Kilnacash: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilnacash.md - Strahard: https://everytownland.com/laois/strahard.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/debicot - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/debicot