Kilcolmanbane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolmanbane, barony of Maryborough East, Co. Laois; in Irish Cill Cholmáin Bháin
- Area
- 162.3 ha
- 401 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 48,483 m² (4.85 ha, 11.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcolmanbane, from 789 m² to 237,324 m² (23.73 ha, 58.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcolmanbane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Dec 2023Conditional
proposed new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360560
20 Dec 2023N/a
Proposed new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360550
19 Dec 2023N/a
Proposed new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360540
7 Jul 2021Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21484
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 Kilcolmanbane.
Recorded monuments
- LA018-002 Church
Description
St Colman Ban may have founded an early church here and he is commemorated on the 19th October (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 244-5). A late medieval nave (L c. 11.1m, Wth c. 6.6m) and chancel (L c. 6.55m, Wth c. 4.5m, wall T c. 1.4m) church built of rough limestone blocks randomly coursed. The E window has been replaced by a modern entrance. The original doorway was possibly in the S wall. Plain rectangular window in W gable. The nave and chancel are divided by a segmental rounded arch (Wth c. 2.4m) and the interior of the nave is 1.2m lower than that of the chancel. All visible headstones in surrounding irregularly shaped graveyard, postdate 1700. 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
- LA018-002001 Graveyard
Description
On very high ground overlooking valley. St. Colman Ban may have founded an early church here. He is commemorated on the 19th October (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 244-5). A late medieval church (LA018-002-) with divided nave and chancel built with rough limestone blocks randomly coursed. All visible headstones post date 1700 AD. Roughly D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 35m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church in centre of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA018-003 Enclosure
Description
In an upland area. A circular area (diam. c. 25.8m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 2.5m; int. H c. 0.2m, ext. H c. 0.8m) and slight remains of a fosse. No evidence of original entrance. 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 Kilcolmanbane.
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 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 Kilcolmanbane.
- 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 Kilcolmanbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcolmanbane · Cill Cholmáin Bháin
- Area
- 1,622,511 m² (162.25 ha, 400.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolmanbane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Electoral division
- Kilcolmanbane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcolmanbane electoral division: 627 people in 208 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycarnan, Ballyknockan, Cappoley, Derry, Hophall, Lamberton Demesne, Rathleague
- Placenames
- Kilcolmanbane 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.