# Kilfeacle, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois; in Irish Cill Fhiacla.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 933,390 m² (93.34 ha, 230.65 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,997 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathaspick, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathaspick.md
- Barony: Ballyadams
- Electoral division: Rathaspick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 287 people lived in 96 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28210
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100708
- Centre: latitude 52.91078, longitude -7.110473 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilfeacle, from 124 m² to 217,418 m² (21.74 ha, 53.73 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 236987: 217,418 m² (21.74 ha, 53.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236987.md
- Parcel 226320: 91,706 m² (9.17 ha, 22.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226320.md
- Parcel 252551: 83,629 m² (8.36 ha, 20.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252551.md
- Parcel 234657: 83,601 m² (8.36 ha, 20.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234657.md
- Parcel 253444: 81,035 m² (8.1 ha, 20.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253444.md
- Parcel 268497: 60,721 m² (6.07 ha, 15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268497.md
- Parcel 252509: 49,996 m² (5 ha, 12.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252509.md
- Parcel 254905: 48,964 m² (4.9 ha, 12.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254905.md
- Parcel 229140: 43,767 m² (4.38 ha, 10.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229140.md
- Parcel 255498: 37,402 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255498.md
- Parcel 232361: 37,044 m² (3.7 ha, 9.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232361.md
- Parcel 249557: 13,773 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249557.md
- Parcel 248967: 11,606 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248967.md
- Parcel 267625: 10,079 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267625.md
- Parcel 245459: 9,924 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245459.md
- Parcel 5031527: 5,801 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5031527.md
- Parcel 5238594: 5,211 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5238594.md
- Parcel 245701: 4,574 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245701.md
- Parcel 250869: 3,997 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250869.md
- Parcel 5105431: 3,862 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105431.md
- Parcel 5589284: 3,718 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5589284.md
- Parcel 250758: 3,703 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250758.md
- Parcel 5402841: 3,544 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5402841.md
- Parcel 5105426: 3,229 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105426.md
- Parcel 3935826: 2,461 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3935826.md
- Parcel 235879: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235879.md
- Parcel 266899: 1,903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/266899.md
- Parcel 265428: 1,619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/265428.md
- Parcel 5031528: 1,415 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5031528.md
- Parcel 5238593: 1,353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5238593.md
- Parcel 5031529: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5031529.md
- Parcel 226959: 997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/226959.md
- Parcel 5105430: 981 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105430.md
- Parcel 263450: 803 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263450.md
- Parcel 5105423: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105423.md
- Parcel 236327: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/236327.md
- Parcel 5105429: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105429.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Kilfeacle in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 12 Apr 2019, Laois County Council 19210: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19210/0
- 18 Jun 2018, Laois County Council 18356: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain a detached single storey storage shed (207.38m2), hardstand area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18356/0
- 18 Dec 2017, Laois County Council 17685: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey dwelling with mezzanine level, garage, new waste water treatment system, bored well, retention for existing entrance, associated walls and pillard and all site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17685/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA025-032: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-032----. Not marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In wet marshy land. A shallow pool of water marks the site. A subcircular area (D 0.5m, Wth 0.8m N-S x 1m E-W) enclosed by a modern stone wall at N, E and S with slab to knee on at entrance at W. According to local information it was thought that the water from it could heal only sight ailments. 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
- LA025-033001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-033001-. A subcircular area (max. diam. c. 70m N-S) defined by a low bank, except at ESE and S where it is defined by a scarp, and an external fosse (Wth c. 4.3m, int. H c. 1m). No evidence of original entrance. A burial (LA025-033002-) may have been found here. 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
- LA025-033002: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-033002-. While ploughing over an 'old moat' ringfort (LA025-033001-), a number of flat stones, set on edge, were found c. 0.3m below the ground surface. Two larger stones which may have been cover-stones were also found; one was inscribed with a Maltese cross (LA025-033003-), the other at E end of the grave was found to cover portions of a human skull. The stone-lined grave suggests that the burial was late medieval (JRSAI 1932, 119-20). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007
- LA025-033003: Cross-slab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-033003-. Reference to a broken slab, inscribed with a circle within four segments of circles formed a rough Maltese cross; found in a stone-lined grave (LA025-033002-) (JRSAI 1932, 119-20). 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
- LA025-069: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-069----. In grassland, holy well (LA025-032----) 195m to ENE, ringfort (LA025-033001-) and cross-slab (LA025-033003-) 160m to S. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) visible on Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 January 2022

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Bridge, 1915–1920, Regional interest, registry number 12802506, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LA&regno=12802506. Pair of reinforced concrete railway bridges over road, c. 1917, with sandstone abutments to one bridge and concrete abutments to other bridge. One of first standard gauge railways laid in Ireland. Opened Sept. 1918, closed 1929.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Kilfeacle, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilfeacle.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilfeacle.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilfeacle.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilfeacle.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Kilfeacle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghamafir: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghamafir.md
- Ballylehane Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballylehane-lower.md
- Ballylehane Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballylehane-upper.md
- Kellystown: https://everytownland.com/laois/kellystown.md
- Mullaghmore: https://everytownland.com/laois/mullaghmore.md
- Shanragh: https://everytownland.com/laois/shanragh.md
- Wolfhill: https://everytownland.com/laois/wolfhill.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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