Foxburrow

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxburrow, from 2,408 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 443,370 m² (44.34 ha, 109.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Foxburrow 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.

• 16 Mar 2026N/a

  Construct a domestic shed at Foxburrow, Mountrath, Co.Laois

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2612

• 2 Mar 2026N/a

  construct a domestic shed at Foxburrow Mountrath Co Laois

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2611

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  construct (i). cubicles shed onto existing slatted shed (ii). milking parlour with collecting yard, drafting yard connect to existing slatted shed (iii). feeding area with slatted tank & concrete apron (iv). meal bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19341

• 11 Jun 2019N/a

  construct (i). cubicles shed onto existing slatted shed (ii). milking parlour with collecting yard, drafting yard connect to existing slatted shed (iii). feeding area with slatted tank & concrete apron (iv). meal bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19331

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: Shanahoe Marsh 001923

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foxburrow.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Foxburrow.

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

Name

Foxburrow · An Bhrocach

Area

656,294 m² (65.63 ha, 162.17 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Raheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Raheen electoral division: 495 people in 148 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanacloghy, Clonawoolan, Cromoge, Derrykearn, Mountfead

Placenames

Foxburrow 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.