Fearagh

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fearagh, from 1,714 m² to 194,461 m² (19.45 ha, 48.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Fearagh 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.

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  demolish rear extension and existing sheds and proposed to renovate existing dwelling house and single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, new garage, septic tank & percolation area and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21569

• 6 Jul 2021Conditional

  construct dwelling house, entrance, septic tank and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21482

• 13 Sept 2019Conditional

  construct cubicles shed, slurry lagoon, silage pit and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19514

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 Fearagh.

Recorded monuments

• LA029-006 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Reference to a fulacht fiadh here (Candon 1987, 23). No visible surface remains. According to local information, it was levelled c. 1955. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fearagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fearagh · Fiarach Fionn

Area

330,650 m² (33.07 ha, 81.71 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Cuffsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 119 households in the Cuffsborough electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anster, Ballycolla, Dairyhill, Legaun, Park, Tinnaraheen

Placenames

Fearagh 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.