Iry

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Iry, from 26 m² to 530,386 m² (53.04 ha, 131.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Iry 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.

• 28 May 2026Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling with domestic garage, new site entrance, proposed treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660321

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21621

• 30 Aug 2018Conditional

  Construct (a) an agricultural livestock shed with underground slatted slurry tanks. (b) construct an external underground slatted slurry tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18537

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 Iry.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Iry.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Iry.

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

Name

Iry · An tOidhre

Area

4,607,544 m² (460.75 ha, 1,138.55 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Ballyfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyfin electoral division: 711 people in 225 households; 94% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylusk, Brockra, Cappagh South, Cloncourse, Cloncullen, Gorteen, Ringstown, Ross, Springfield

Placenames

Iry 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.