Harristown

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Harristown, from 117 m² to 257,221 m² (25.72 ha, 63.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Harristown 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.

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460607

• 25 Jun 2019Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19358

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct on the grant of Outline Permission ref. no. 16/379 dormer style dwellinghouse, domestic garage, install proprietary treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18161

• 15 Mar 2018N/a

  constgruct on the grant of Outline Permission ref. no. 16/379 for dormer style dwellinghouse, domestic garage, install proprietary treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission consequent · Laois County Council, 18153

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 Harristown.

Recorded monuments

• LA034-002001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (diam. 27m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 2.4-2.7m, int. H c. 1.8m, ext. H c. 2.4-2.7m), external fosse and possible outer bank (OPW file). The site was levelled and no visible surface remains survive. 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

• LA034-002002 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of subcircular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 39-40). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1856 (ZIP).

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

Name

Harristown · Baile Hanraí

Area

1,937,081 m² (193.71 ha, 478.66 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdowney, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Rathsaran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathsaran electoral division: 604 people in 218 households; 84% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybuggy, Cappalinnan, Cloneeb, Johnstown Glebe, Knockheel, Lyroge, Raheen, Rossdarragh

Placenames

Harristown 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.