Droughill

564 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Droughill, from 1 m² to 126,797 m² (12.68 ha, 31.33 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.

• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 461 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential 2 - New Proposed Residential (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Offaly · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism & Leisure (Tourism and related)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space (Active open space)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  demolish existing house & sheds & erection of 6 no. 2 bed elder living houses, plant building, ancillary carpark, bin store, site entrance alterations & associated site works

  Permission, 6 homes · Laois County Council, 2660556

• 3 Jul 2026Refused

  carry out development which will consist of; the construction of a detached, single storey family dwelling, new pedestrian entrance gate on front/west wall; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural, and site development works above and below ground.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660433

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  construct a detached, single storey family dwelling, new pedestrian entrance gate on front/west wall; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural, and site development works above and below ground.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660417

• 8 May 2026Conditional

  1. demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house. 2. retain existing extension to side of dwelling house. 3. construct a new single storey extension to existing dwelling house together with all ancillary works. 4. construct a domestic garage.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2660261

• 6 May 2026N/a

  demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house. Permission to retain existing extension to side of dwelling house. Permission to construct a new single storey extension to existing dwelling house together with all ancillary works. Permission to construct a domestic garage.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660257

• 1 May 2026N/a

  demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house. Permission to retain existing extension to side of dwelling house. Permission to construct a new single storey extension to existing dwelling house together with all ancillary works. Permission to construct a domestic garage.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660250

• 3 Apr 2026N/a

  modify the design and layout of a residential development at Bishopswood Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois previously permitted under Laois County Council Reg. Ref. 2460460 comprising of; Modifications to 2 No. of House types A (A4 and A5) to the northeastern side of the site consisting of revisions to relocate the front entrance to the side gable end, minor internal modifications at ground and first floor level, modifications to external fenestrations and rear garden areas. Modifications to 11 No. House Type C (C4,C5, C6 and C7) to the northeastern side of the site consisting of revisions to building footprint, minor internal modifications at ground and first floor level, modifications to external fenestrations and slight increase in rear garden areas. Minor modification to the road layout along with the addition of a disabled car parking space at the southern end of the site. All with associated site works, landscaping and boundary treatment.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660186

• 1 Apr 2026N/a

  modify the design and layout of a residential development at Bishopswood Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois previously permitted under Laois County Council Reg. Ref. 2460460 comprising of; Modifications to 2 No. of House types A (A4 and A5) to the northeastern side of the site consisting of revisions to relocate the front entrance to the side gable end, minor internal modifications at ground and first floor level, modifications to external fenestrations and rear garden areas. Modifications to 11 No. House Type C (C4,C5, C6 and C7) to the northeastern side of the site consisting of revisions to building footprint, minor internal modifications at ground and first floor level, modifications to external fenestrations and slight increase in rear garden areas. Minor modification to the road layout along with the addition of a disabled car parking space at the southern end of the site. All with associated site works, landscaping and boundary treatment.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660178

• 18 Dec 2025Unconditional

  extend duration on PL. ref. 19/432

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 25114

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  construct new two storey Creche and Daycare Centre, including outdoor play area, set down and parking areas, landscaping and boundary treatments, ancillary site services and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560422

• 10 Jul 2025N/a

  construct a two storey Creche and Daycare Centre, including outdoor play area, set down and parking areas, landscaping and boundary treatments, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560416

• 9 May 2025N/a

  New two storey Creche and Daycare Centre, including outdoor play area, set down and parking areas, landscaping and boundary treatments, ancillary site services and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560278

• 29 Apr 2025Conditional

  amend the design and layout of the development permitted under Laois County Council Reg. Ref. 19/432 (as amended by Laois County Council Reg. Ref. 24/46) comprising: A reduction in site area from 4.01 to 3.91 hectares to facilitate an increase to the size of the creche reservation area adjoining the site from 796 sq m to 982 sq m and the exclusion of the creche from the site area; modifications to the internal road layout including the provision of a new internal road to the eastern boundary of the creche site; the relocation and distribution of public open space within the site resulting in the total permitted quantum of 4,522 sq m public open space increasing to 4,657 sq m; the reposition of 13 No. dwellings within the site to accommodate the revised open space arrangement; a change in house types to selected dwellings to be repositioned resulting in an additional 1 No. House Type A, 1 No. House Type A1, and 1 No. House Type D1 and the omission of 1 No. House Type B, 1 No. House Type B1 and 1 No. House Type D. The proposed development also includes amendments to site service arrangements including revisions to attenuation; adjustments to selected footpaths and car parking arrangements; provision of an ESB substation; and all associated site development works above and below ground. The scheme does not alter the number of units (97 No.) permitted at the site and the total quantum of car parking spaces will remain unchanged. The gross floor area of the scheme will change from 10,522 sq m to 10,609 sq m.

  Permission, 97 homes · Laois County Council, 2560255

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  construct 4 No. two storey three bedroom dwellings, shared car parking, common amenity space and associated infrastructural connections and site works.

  Permission, 4 homes · Laois County Council, 2560075

• 8 Jan 2025Unconditional

  Extension of Duration of Permission 19/174 as amended by Permission 24/95

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 252

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  construct 4 No. two storey three bedroom dwellings, shared car parking, common amenity space and associated infrastructural connections and site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460792

• 30 Sept 2024Conditional

  Erect a single storey "Granny Flat" Type Extension to rear of dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460568

• 28 Aug 2024Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460503

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  extend to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460490

• 22 Aug 2024N/a

  construct an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460489

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  construct 49 no. residential units to include 27 no. type A, two storey three bed semi-detached , 17 no. type C, two storey two bed terrace and 5 no. house type D, two storey three bedroom, all site works including drainage, footpaths, pedestrian access, landscaping and amenity areas, car parking, public lighting and all other ancillary works.

  Permission, 49 homes · Laois County Council, 2460460

• 24 Jul 2024N/a

  construct 49 no. residential units to include 27 no. type A, two storey three bed semi-detached , 17 no. type C, two storey two bed terrace and 5 no. house type D, two storey three bedroom, all site works including drainage, footpaths, pedestrian access, landscaping and amenity areas, car parking, public lighting and all other ancillary works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460439

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF PROPERTY, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460414

• 9 Jul 2024Conditional

  carry out amendments to a permitted residential development granted under Reg. Ref. 19174. The proposed amendments will consist of A) relocation of on-street parking spaces; B) relocation of refuse collection areas; C) change of house type/design to sites 67-70 (inclusive) and D) amendments to all rear garden /site boundary treatments

  Permission, 4 homes · Laois County Council, 2495

• 4 Jul 2024N/a

  carry out amendments to a permitted residential development granted under Reg. Ref. 19174. The proposed amendments will consist of A) relocation of on-street parking spaces; B) relocation of refuse collection areas; C) change of house type/design to sites 67-70 (inclusive) and D) amendments to all rear garden/site boundary treatments

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2492

The 25 most recent of 64 applications.

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

• LA005-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight rise in low-lying area E of the River Barrow. A dished area (max. diam. c. 30m N-S) surrounded by a possible degraded bank, most pronounced at S, defines the site. The N side is cut into the natural rise. Visible on aerial photo (CUCAP, BDL 3), possibly a ringfort. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA005-031008 Bridge
  Description

  Town of Portarlington was previously known as the town of Cooletodderie as mentioned in 1571 Elizabethan land grant to Owen mac Hugh O'Dempsie and described as containing 80 acres, which lieth southwest from the River of the Barough, and abutteth upon the town and lands called Bracklone East' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, p. 51) The town is named after its founder Sir Henry Bennet, lord Arlington (Bradley 1986, p. 42). In 1666 Charles II granted large tracts of O'Dempseys land which formed the manor of Portarlington and created the borough with a corporation, weekly market and two yearlt fairs (Cal. State Papers, 1666-9, pp. 220-2). This new town may have been superimposed on an earlier settlement at Cooltedery mentioned in 1571. The town grew rapidly and formed its basic layout by 1678 when it is shown in a map now in the Nat. Library of Ireland (Feehan 1983, p. 393). The town was laid out by George Rawdon and was fortified with a moat that enclosed the town and was surrounded on all sides by water. There is a market square in the centre of the town out of which the four main roads radiated out from the market square. Market House stood in the centre of the market square. The River Barrow enclosed three sides of the town from W through N to E and by a moat on the south side. To the W of the town King Street ran towards a bridge crossing the River Barrow that is depicted on the 1678 town plan. The four streets radiating out from the market square were called King Street running westwards towards the bridge over the Barrow River, Bennet street ran North from the square, James Street ran out Eastwards and Queene Street that ran out southwards. This seventeenth century bridge has been replaced by a later bridge of 18th century date. Seventeenth century account from 1666 mentions the 'great bridge' and describes it as ' on either sides of the way leading from New Channel Bridge to Katherine's tower and on either side of the road leading from the great bridge to Charlestown' (Bradley 1986, p. 43). Bennet Street ran northwards from the market square and traversed the River barrow where the Spa Bridge is located today Possible that remains of this bridge may still survive in the bed of the River Barrow underneath the present Spa bridge. This was one of three bridges the other two being the New Channel Bridge and the Great Bridge over the River Barrow where the Barrow Bridge is today. Laois County Council commissioned an underwater inspection to be carried out By Niall Brady for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd. In 1998, in the River Barrow in advance of construction works on the Spa Bridge, Portarlington. The survey area extended from c. 10m upstream of the bridge to a point c. 40m downstream of the bridge. A visual search and a licensed metal-detector survey revealed only one artefact of archaeological interest: a bronze ring of possible Later Bronze Age date. It was recovered from an upstream location and outside that of the proposed works. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2203 (ZIP).

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.

• Droughill, Portarlington10 sales

Name

Droughill · Droch-choill

Area

1,163,733 m² (116.37 ha, 287.56 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Portarlington South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Portarlington South electoral division: 7,859 people in 2,795 households; 65% of households own their home; 61% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooltederry, Derryvilla (Co. Offaly), Kilmalogue (Co. Offaly), Tinacrannagh (Co. Offaly)

Placenames

Droughill 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.