# Fermoyle, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Rosconnell, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Formaoil.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,328,305 m² (132.83 ha, 328.23 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,545 m² (1.05 ha, 2.61 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rosconnell, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rosconnell.md
- Barony: Clarmallagh
- Electoral division: Durrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,383 people lived in 501 households in the Durrow electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 13% 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/27959
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100569
- Centre: latitude 52.859971, longitude -7.361438 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fermoyle, from 398 m² to 414,062 m² (41.41 ha, 102.32 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 234404: 414,062 m² (41.41 ha, 102.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234404.md
- Parcel 264485: 286,706 m² (28.67 ha, 70.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264485.md
- Parcel 256207: 153,138 m² (15.31 ha, 37.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256207.md
- Parcel 251917: 70,095 m² (7.01 ha, 17.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251917.md
- Parcel 251916: 69,207 m² (6.92 ha, 17.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251916.md
- Parcel 251914: 58,621 m² (5.86 ha, 14.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251914.md
- Parcel 234400: 55,956 m² (5.6 ha, 13.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234400.md
- Parcel 239617: 51,680 m² (5.17 ha, 12.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239617.md
- Parcel 5211917: 40,263 m² (4.03 ha, 9.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211917.md
- Parcel 234403: 39,406 m² (3.94 ha, 9.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234403.md
- Parcel 234401: 21,797 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234401.md
- Parcel 264977: 19,335 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264977.md
- Parcel 251915: 14,945 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251915.md
- Parcel 234402: 13,205 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234402.md
- Parcel 264437: 10,545 m² (1.05 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264437.md
- Parcel 251912: 8,432 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251912.md
- Parcel 263029: 5,499 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263029.md
- Parcel 225820: 5,284 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225820.md
- Parcel 231207: 5,023 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231207.md
- Parcel 256040: 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256040.md
- Parcel 260886: 3,887 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260886.md
- Parcel 226408: 2,755 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226408.md
- Parcel 242796: 2,731 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242796.md
- Parcel 234419: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234419.md
- Parcel 226506: 1,990 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/226506.md
- Parcel 5357479: 1,978 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5357479.md
- Parcel 4452721: 1,093 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4452721.md
- Parcel 255130: 836 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/255130.md
- Parcel 254135: 398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/254135.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Fermoyle 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.

- 21 Jun 2025, Laois County Council 2560365: Conditional. Permission. construct a single storey extension to the existing country museum building, an entrance hall, toilets, a cloakroom and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560365/0
- 13 Feb 2017, Laois County Council 1777: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling with associated garage, sewage treatment, infiltration area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1777/0

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 Fermoyle.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA029-038: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA029-038----. This is the site of a quarry, indicated as rock outcrop. It is not depicted as an archaeological monument on first edition of the OS 6-inch map. A large sub-circular field boundary enclosing an area of rock outcrop is indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision: 26 April 2010
- LA029-048: House - fortified house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA029-048----. Marked on the Down Survey and as 'Castle (in Ruins)' on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated at the bottom of a valley. A three-storey house built of roughly cut limestone. Remains include the E gable (L 7m N-S; wall T 0.6m) with a central fireplace and part of the S wall (L 4.9m) with simple slit opes and remains of a bawn wall (LA029-048001-) projecting southwards from the SW angle. No other visible surface remains. 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
- LA029-048001: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA029-048001-. Marked as 'castle in ruins' only on the 1890 edition of the OS 6-inch map and on the Down Survey (1655-6) map. No historical references. Situated at the bottom of a valley. Remains include the East gable with a central fireplace and part of the South wall with simple slit opes of a fortified house (LA029-048) and remains of a bawn wall (LA029-04801) projecting Southwards from the South West angle. No other visible surface remains. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA029-077: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA029-077----. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 April 2019

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 Fermoyle.

## 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 Fermoyle, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fermoyle.
- 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/fermoyle.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/fermoyle.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/fermoyle.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Fermoyle 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)

- Brandra: https://everytownland.com/laois/brandra.md
- Castlewood: https://everytownland.com/laois/castlewood.md
- Clorhaun: https://everytownland.com/laois/clorhaun.md
- Curraghacronacon: https://everytownland.com/laois/curraghacronacon.md
- Grenan: https://everytownland.com/laois/grenan.md
- Gurraun: https://everytownland.com/laois/gurraun.md
- Rath: https://everytownland.com/laois/rath.md
- Watercastle: https://everytownland.com/laois/watercastle.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.

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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/fermoyle
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