# Gorragh Upper, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmanman, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish Garbhach Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,309,144 m² (230.91 ha, 570.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 49,987 m² (5 ha, 12.35 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmanman, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/kilmanman.md - Barony: Tinnahinch - Electoral division: Clonaslee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 954 people lived in 347 households in the Clonaslee electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/28412 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100620 - Centre: latitude 53.119625, longitude -7.549591 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorragh Upper, from 13,769 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres) to 1,306,514 m² (130.65 ha, 322.85 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 263388: 1,306,514 m² (130.65 ha, 322.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263388.md - Parcel 265823: 199,243 m² (19.92 ha, 49.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265823.md - Parcel 236200: 153,022 m² (15.3 ha, 37.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236200.md - Parcel 233158: 124,981 m² (12.5 ha, 30.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233158.md - Parcel 249387: 69,528 m² (6.95 ha, 17.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249387.md - Parcel 265751: 61,948 m² (6.19 ha, 15.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265751.md - Parcel 237395: 61,535 m² (6.15 ha, 15.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237395.md - Parcel 233938: 53,979 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233938.md - Parcel 258298: 45,996 m² (4.6 ha, 11.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258298.md - Parcel 5143974: 44,009 m² (4.4 ha, 10.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5143974.md - Parcel 256392: 39,842 m² (3.98 ha, 9.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256392.md - Parcel 226831: 39,816 m² (3.98 ha, 9.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226831.md - Parcel 242789: 32,985 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242789.md - Parcel 249119: 32,463 m² (3.25 ha, 8.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249119.md - Parcel 262327: 16,069 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262327.md - Parcel 266276: 13,769 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266276.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gorragh Upper 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) No planning application touches the townland of Gorragh Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412 - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorragh Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorragh Upper. ## 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 Gorragh Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1943, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1943.zip (ZIP). - 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/gorragh-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/gorragh-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/gorragh-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gorragh Upper 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) - Glendine: https://everytownland.com/laois/glendine-100614.md - Glendineoregan: https://everytownland.com/laois/glendineoregan.md - Glenkeen Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/glenkeen-upper.md - Gorragh Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/gorragh-lower.md - Ross: https://everytownland.com/laois/ross-100993.md - Scarroon: https://everytownland.com/laois/scarroon.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/gorragh-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/gorragh-upper