Doolough

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doolough, from 207 m² to 494,575 m² (49.46 ha, 122.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Doolough 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 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560692

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct (i) Cubicle shed extension with slatted tank and loose area (ii) milking parlour building with plant room, Dairy, office, storage, slatted tank, flow channel, crush, meal bin, water tank and collecting yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560673

• 17 Feb 2023Conditional

  change previously approved permission; Laois Co. Co. Ref. 21719. Changes include the omission of the single storey extension, alteration of internal room layout and retain derelict outbuildings previously approved for demolition

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2350

• 30 Jan 2023N/a

  change previously approved permission; Laois Co. Co. Ref. 21719. Changes include the omission of the single storey extension, alteration of internal room layout and retain derelict outbuildings previously approved for demolition

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2328

• 26 Jan 2023N/a

  change previously approved permission; Laois Co. Co. Ref. 21719. Changes include the omission of the single storey extension, alteration of internal room layout and retain derelict outbuildings previously approved for demolition

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2323

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  single storey extension to dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21915

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  demolish existing elements to the west of the existing dwelling, a single storey extension to the south of the existing dwelling, associated internal and external refurbishment works to the existing dwelling and septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21719

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  extend and alter existing bungalow type dwelling to include for (a) new front & side extensions (b) window & door alterations( & (c)new roof alignment all using existing effluent treatment system and percolation area using existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19681

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  relocate and alter entrance and alterations to site boundary from that granted permission under file reg 18/694

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19227

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18694

• 1 Oct 2018Conditional

  construct cubicles shed with slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18589

• 17 Sept 2018N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18563

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 Doolough.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doolough.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Doolough, 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 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 Doolough.

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

Name

Doolough · An Dúleacht

Area

836,819 m² (83.68 ha, 206.78 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Ballybrittas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,520 people lived in 452 households in the Ballybrittas electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymorris, Kilbride, Lough, Rathleash

Placenames

Doolough 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.