Drinagh

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drinagh, from 146 m² to 75,712 m² (7.57 ha, 18.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drinagh 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.

• 26 Jan 2024Conditional

  Change of fenestration and finishes to all elevations, location of dwelling on the site, omission of garage as permitted under planning reference 93/276 and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460035

• 24 Jan 2024N/a

  Retention planning permission is sought for change of fenestration and finishes to all elevations, location of dwelling on the site, omission of garage as permitted under planning reference 93/276 and all associated site works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460032

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system & percolation area, new entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21363

• 18 Apr 2018Conditional

  construct extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18237

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drinagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drinagh · Doire Eidhneach

Area

716,958 m² (71.7 ha, 177.16 acres)

Civil parish

Rosenallis, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Mountmellick Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountmellick Rural electoral division: 1,090 people in 383 households; 94% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoyle, Cloncanon Lower, Cloonagh, Derrycloney, Garroon or Summergrove, Omoresforest, Townparks

Placenames

Drinagh 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.