Island
Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyleix, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An tOileán
- Area
- 59 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 5,329 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential 1 - Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Island, from 28 m² to 118,382 m² (11.84 ha, 29.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Jun 2026Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660386
16 Jun 2026N/a
construct a new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660375
2 Jun 2026N/a
construct a new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660332
28 May 2026N/a
to construct a new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660319
11 Feb 2026Conditional
erect a machinery storage shed, the replacement of the road boundary ditch with a masonry wall and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660073
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Island.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Island.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Island.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Island.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Island with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Island · An tOileán
- Area
- 590,094 m² (59.01 ha, 145.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeyleix, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cullenagh
- Electoral division
- Abbeyleix, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Abbeyleix electoral division: 2,979 people in 1,145 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Raheenabrogue, Rathmoyle, Tonduff
- Placenames
- Island 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.