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

Townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois; in Irish Gort an Ghrásaigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 297,870 m² (29.79 ha, 73.61 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,855 m² (2.09 ha, 5.15 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathaspick, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathaspick.md
- Barony: Ballyadams
- Electoral division: Rathaspick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 287 people lived in 96 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28207
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100637
- Centre: latitude 52.922182, longitude -7.076725 (WGS 84)

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

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gracefield, from 648 m² to 70,349 m² (7.03 ha, 17.38 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 265429: 70,349 m² (7.03 ha, 17.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265429.md
- Parcel 240306: 69,136 m² (6.91 ha, 17.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240306.md
- Parcel 225635: 58,171 m² (5.82 ha, 14.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225635.md
- Parcel 241010: 49,707 m² (4.97 ha, 12.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241010.md
- Parcel 260785: 36,442 m² (3.64 ha, 9.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260785.md
- Parcel 228348: 5,269 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228348.md
- Parcel 250752: 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250752.md
- Parcel 225391: 2,956 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225391.md
- Parcel 260535: 2,287 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260535.md
- Parcel 266897: 648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/266897.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gracefield 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.

- 28 Oct 2025, Laois County Council 2560704: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construct a New Dwelling, Garage, Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area and New Site Entrance and to include all Associated Ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560704/0
- 9 Jan 2019, Laois County Council 197: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, packaged waste water treatment system, percolation area, new entrance and all associated & necessary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/197/0

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 Gracefield.

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gracefield.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Gracefield, gate lodge, 1815–1820, Regional interest, registry number 12802507, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LA&regno=12802507. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1817.

## 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 Gracefield, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gracefield.
- 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/gracefield.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/gracefield.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/gracefield.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gracefield 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)

- Ballylehane Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballylehane-lower.md
- Boley: https://everytownland.com/laois/boley-100206.md
- Rathaspick: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathaspick.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/gracefield
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/gracefield