Fisherstown

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fisherstown, from 219 m² to 319,290 m² (31.93 ha, 78.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Fisherstown 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.

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  construct proposed new slatted shed, concrete yard and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360132

• 8 Mar 2023Conditional

  The construction of a two-storey office and canteen unit, signage, carparking and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360082

• 3 Mar 2023N/a

  construct a two-storey office and canteen unit, signage, carparking and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360073

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  increase ridge height and walls to allow existing domestic storage building to go from single storey building to storey & a half style building; to include alterations / windows; to allow for domestic storage on first floor and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21675

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  alter boundaries of site, relocate sand polishing filter and add two spans to workshop, all of which was previously granted planning with file reference 21/191 and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21669

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  demolish two storage sheds, remove two steel storage racks, remove two containers, decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct a new engineering workshop, canteen, toilet and storage area and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works using an existing shared entrance and retain existing office

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21191

• 19 Mar 2021N/a

  demolish part of existing outbuildings and demolish existing engineering workshop, decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct a new commercial building to accommodate new engineering workshop, also and office, canteen and toilets and storage area and install proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21163

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  demolish existing sheds and part of existing house and a proposed renovation of existing house to include a single storey extension to the rear and side of the existing house, garage, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20706

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of a new workshop unit of circa 1300sq m, a proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, car parking and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20462

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  allow a temporary mobile home & construct dormer bungalow dwelling house and garage with site entrance and all other ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20451

• 20 Sept 2019N/a

  allow temporary mobile home and construct dormer bungalow, dwelling house and garage with site entrance and all other ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19532

• 6 Sept 2019N/a

  erect temporary mobile home, dormer bungalow dwelling house and garage with site entrance and all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19508

• 11 Jul 2019Conditional

  construct a dormer dwelling house, domestic garage, packaged wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19394

• 31 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/shed, septic tank, percolation area and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18538

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  construct a new slatted shed, concrete yard, dungsted, cattle-crush and all associatd site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1832

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17339

• 22 May 2017N/a

  construct a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17241

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• LA009-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Possible enclosure not marked on any edition of OS 6-inch maps but visible as oval cropmark on aerial photograph (GSI, N 344). No 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two- or four-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1860, on a T-shaped plan.

• Fisherstown Bridge, bridge, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over canal, c. 1790.

• Fisherstown House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, c. 1820, with full-height bowed entrance bay. Now in ruins.

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 Fisherstown.

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

Name

Fisherstown · Gráig an Eiscire

Area

2,404,346 m² (240.43 ha, 594.13 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Sallyford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Sallyford electoral division: 604 people in 199 households; 93% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belan, Courtwood, Derryoughter West (Co. Kildare), Grangecoor (Co. Kildare), Kilbrackan, Mooreabbey Demesne (Co. Kildare), Rathronshin, Riverstown (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Fisherstown 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.