# Grange Beg, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Ghráinseach Bheag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,006,727 m² (100.67 ha, 248.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,519 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghaboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghaboe.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Ballybrophy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballybrophy electoral division: 223 people in 72 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% 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/28693 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100658 - Centre: latitude 52.915807, longitude -7.602509 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange Beg, from 39 m² to 447,749 m² (44.77 ha, 110.64 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 233188: 447,749 m² (44.77 ha, 110.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233188.md - Parcel 256035: 142,712 m² (14.27 ha, 35.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256035.md - Parcel 234439: 84,019 m² (8.4 ha, 20.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234439.md - Parcel 2458375: 64,652 m² (6.47 ha, 15.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2458375.md - Parcel 233193: 51,514 m² (5.15 ha, 12.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233193.md - Parcel 229228: 33,072 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229228.md - Parcel 225306: 21,777 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225306.md - Parcel 254644: 16,083 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254644.md - Parcel 254643: 14,864 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254643.md - Parcel 261240: 14,145 m² (1.41 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261240.md - Parcel 254642: 13,366 m² (1.34 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254642.md - Parcel 268347: 11,080 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268347.md - Parcel 257434: 10,508 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257434.md - Parcel 228468: 9,362 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228468.md - Parcel 267667: 8,519 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267667.md - Parcel 263432: 8,078 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263432.md - Parcel 2471934: 6,306 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471934.md - Parcel 265961: 5,384 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265961.md - Parcel 233189: 5,368 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233189.md - Parcel 4266239: 4,213 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4266239.md - Parcel 5900727: 3,023 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5900727.md - Parcel 245553: 2,842 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245553.md - Parcel 2471935: 2,279 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471935.md - Parcel 244067: 2,273 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244067.md - Parcel 226814: 1,771 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/226814.md - Parcel 3085587: 418 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3085587.md - Parcel 254639: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/254639.md - Parcel 5900608: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5900608.md - Parcel 2539156: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2539156.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Grange Beg 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 19 Jun 2026, Laois County Council 2644: Conditional. Permission. construct an agricultural machinery/general purpose store, ancillary concrete and all associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2644/0 - 20 Oct 2025, Laois County Council 25100: Conditional. Retention. retain alterations made to existing domestic dwelling consisting of the removal of front balcony terrace, alterations to external door opening at conservatory and other alterations made to window/door opes to the side elevation ,velux windows in roof including retention permission for suspended carport to rear of dwelling. Retention Permission for Domestic Storage Shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/25100/0 - 13 Oct 2025, Laois County Council 2596: N/a. Permission. retain alterations made to existing domestic dwelling consisting of the removal of front balcony terrace, alterations to external door opening at conservatory and other alterations made to window/door opes to the side elevation ,velus windows in roof including retention permission for suspended carport to rear of dwelling. Retention Permission for Domestic Storage Shed.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2596/0 - 9 Mar 2020, Laois County Council 20124: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct an extension to an existing domestic storage shed including demolition of two small existing sheds, extension of the yard area and the construction of a new boundary wall.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20124/0 - 23 Nov 2018, Laois County Council 18708: Conditional. Permission. construct a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18708/0 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 Grange Beg. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA022-014: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA022-014----. Marked 'Grange Ho. (in Ruins) on the 1841 ed OS 6-inch map. In undulating countryside. A rectangular house (L c. 9.9m NW-SE, Wth c. 6.3m NE-SW) constructed of rubble limestone. Two storeys high with a third storey or attic in SE gable. Entrance, now blocked, in SW wall. Projecting chimney breast and tall chimney stack on NE wall and remains of a cornice. Internal dividing wall running NW-SE. Mentioned in OS letters as an old castle in ruins in the townland of Grangebeg (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, p. 15). 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 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 Grange Beg. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Grange Beg. - 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/grange-beg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-beg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-beg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Grange Beg 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) - Ballybrophy: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballybrophy.md - Ballyreilly: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyreilly.md - Derrinsallagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrinsallagh.md - Derryvorrigan: https://everytownland.com/laois/derryvorrigan.md - Doon: https://everytownland.com/laois/doon-100530.md - Grange More: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-more.md - Kilpurcel: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilpurcel.md - Knockseera: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockseera.md - Moanfad: https://everytownland.com/laois/moanfad.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/grange-beg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/grange-beg