# Fallaghmore, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyadams, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois; in Irish An Fhorrach Mhór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 932,354 m² (93.24 ha, 230.39 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 37,669 m² (3.77 ha, 9.31 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyadams, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/ballyadams.md - Barony: Ballyadams - Electoral division: Ballylynan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,527 people lived in 521 households in the Ballylynan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28131 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100560 - Centre: latitude 52.955044, longitude -7.068623 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fallaghmore, from 1,617 m² to 147,120 m² (14.71 ha, 36.35 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 235643: 147,120 m² (14.71 ha, 36.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235643.md - Parcel 249492: 121,656 m² (12.17 ha, 30.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249492.md - Parcel 230126: 66,027 m² (6.6 ha, 16.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230126.md - Parcel 259190: 65,364 m² (6.54 ha, 16.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259190.md - Parcel 240303: 60,506 m² (6.05 ha, 14.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240303.md - Parcel 268523: 60,258 m² (6.03 ha, 14.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268523.md - Parcel 265423: 53,807 m² (5.38 ha, 13.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265423.md - Parcel 237801: 53,026 m² (5.3 ha, 13.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237801.md - Parcel 263448: 49,352 m² (4.94 ha, 12.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263448.md - Parcel 225170: 46,217 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225170.md - Parcel 256131: 37,669 m² (3.77 ha, 9.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256131.md - Parcel 264614: 36,609 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264614.md - Parcel 232101: 31,889 m² (3.19 ha, 7.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232101.md - Parcel 241006: 25,094 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241006.md - Parcel 262702: 19,800 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262702.md - Parcel 245125: 16,641 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245125.md - Parcel 262300: 16,495 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262300.md - Parcel 261228: 14,203 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261228.md - Parcel 3935591: 6,284 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3935591.md - Parcel 2387848: 4,287 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2387848.md - Parcel 2500601: 1,617 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2500601.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Fallaghmore 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 17 Jun 2024, Laois County Council 2460350: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolition of existing front porch. Full planning permission to construct a new front porch with necessary renovations & alterations to dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460350/0 - 2 Sept 2020, Laois County Council 20450: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct a new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, including forming new entrance, driveway and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20450/0 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 Fallaghmore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA025-070: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-070----. Located in a relatively level location (c. 101m OD) in a gently undulating landscape now characterised by tillage and pastoral farming. Sited towards the SE boundary of a field currently in use for tillage purposes (Apple Maps; accessed July 2023) with E end of the enclosure partially truncated by a later field boundary. Located c. 1.9kms ENE of the remains of a church (LA025-010----), set in a graveyard (LA025-010001-), at Corbally, and c. 1.43kms WNW of another church site (LA026-003----), at Rahin, to the NW periphery of the village of Ballylynan. This enclosure is faintly visible as a cropmark on Apple Maps (accessed July 2023) imagery of the area. It consists of a circular feature (est. ext. dims c. 35m N-S x 33m E-W) that is defined by a ditch (est. Wth c. 1-1.5m) of which only approximately the W half of the arc is visible on the above imagery. The very E end of the enclosure is\was truncated by the field boundary adjacent to the E, and this end of the possible enclosure may survive in the field adjacent to the E (not visible on available imagery). No definitive evidence for an entrance gap. Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Uploaded on: 13/07/2023 See attached: LA025-070----_01 Apple Maps imagery (accessed July 2023) 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fallaghmore. ## 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 Fallaghmore, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fallaghmore. - 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/fallaghmore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/fallaghmore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/fallaghmore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fallaghmore 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) - Ballyadams: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyadams.md - Cappanafeacle: https://everytownland.com/laois/cappanafeacle.md - Corbally: https://everytownland.com/laois/corbally-100437.md - Loughlass: https://everytownland.com/laois/loughlass.md - Parkahoughill: https://everytownland.com/laois/parkahoughill.md - Rahin: https://everytownland.com/laois/rahin.md - Rathgilbert: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathgilbert.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/fallaghmore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/fallaghmore