Grange More

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange More, from 127 m² to 567,010 m² (56.7 ha, 140.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Grange More 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.

• 24 Nov 2022Conditional

  construct a 2 storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22719

• 10 Nov 2021Conditional

  single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling and all associated site works, proposed extension to include a new bedroom, bathroom and living room. We also intend to apply for retention permission for works previous works carried out at this property including the development of a new site entrance, domestic garages, renovation works to the existing cottage, existing extension and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21759

• 29 Jul 2021N/a

  single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling and all associated site works, proposed extension to include a new bedroom, bathroom and living room

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21537

• 27 Jul 2021N/a

  single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling and all associated site works, proposed extension to include a new bedroom, bathroom and living room

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21533

• 27 Feb 2017Conditional

  demolish existing derelict dwellinghouse and construct new two-storey dwellinghouse, new septic tank with percolation area, garage, relocate entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17108

• 24 Feb 2017N/a

  demolish existing derelict dwellinghouse and permission to construct new two-storey dwellinghouse, new septic tank with percolation area, garage, relocate entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17105

• 23 Feb 2017N/a

  demolish existing derelict dwellinghouse and construct new two-storey dwellinghouse, new septic tank with percolation area, garage, relocate entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17100

• 17 Feb 2017N/a

  demolish existing derelict dwellinghouse and construct new two-storey dwellinghouse, new septic tank with percolation area, garage, relocate entrance and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 1788

• 16 Feb 2017N/a

  demolish existing derelict dwelling house and PERMISSION to construct new two-storey dwellinghgouse, new septic tank with percolation area, garage, relocate entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1786

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Grange More.

Recorded monuments

• LA022-015 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A circular area (diam. c. 21m) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 2.7m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 0.8m) from NW-NE with slight evidence of fosse at N. The S half of the site is incorporated into the townland boundary field fence. 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

• LA022-016 Mound
  Description

  Marked on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m). Reference to a mound here (D. c. 8.1m) composed of small stones (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 19O7, vol. 1, 55). In undulating countryside. 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

• LA022-017001 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1890 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps, hachures indicate E and part of S sides of a rectangular enclosure (max. dim. 50m N-S), a drain lies to N; possibly a moated site. In undulating countryside. 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

• LA022-017002 House - fortified house
  Description

  A ruined castle showed on the Down Survey barony map. An early seventeenth century four storey castellated house belonging to the Phelans (Carrigan 1905, 132). In undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'The 'Castle' or rather castellated house of Grangemore, is a four-storeyed building of the beginning of the 17th century. The walls are 3 ft. thick; the doors are defended by port holes; the chimney stacks are lozenge-shaped' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 132) 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

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

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 5 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 Grange More.

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

Name

Grange More · An Ghráinseach Mhór

Area

1,896,552 m² (189.66 ha, 468.65 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Kilcoke, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcoke electoral division: 141 people in 53 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardvarney, Ballyreilly, Bushfield or Maghernaskeagh, Grange Beg, Kilcoke, Kildellig, Knockseera, Lismore

Placenames

Grange More 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.