Kyleclonhobert
Townland in the civil parish of Borris, barony of Maryborough East, Co. Laois; in Irish Cill Chluana Hoibeaird
- Area
- 114.4 ha
- 283 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 5,428 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kyleclonhobert, from 197 m² to 200,941 m² (20.09 ha, 49.65 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kyleclonhobert 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
5 Jan 2026N/a
construct an agricultural barn and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660001
23 Dec 2025N/a
construct an agricultural barn and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560890
21 May 2025Conditional
the continued use of the site and premises from the 1st January 2026 as a waste transfer and processing facility, consistent with the extant permission Reg. Ref. 15/403. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560308
23 Jan 2025Conditional
extend the existing agricultural cubicle shed, reroute the farm lane, and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560035
20 Jan 2025N/a
Build a cubicle shed, extend existing farm entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560030
18 Jan 2023Conditional
retain milking parlour, slatted concrete tank, concrete yard and associated site works. Permission to build a cubicle shed, new silage pit, new agricultural entrance and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2313
17 Jan 2023N/a
retain milking parlour, slatted concrete tank, concrete yard and associated site works. Permission to build a cubicle shed, new silage pit, new agricultural entrance and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 238
5 Apr 2022N/a
construct proposed new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 22192
23 Nov 2021Conditional
construct extension and alterations to existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21795
5 Aug 2021Conditional
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21554
9 Nov 2020Conditional
extend existing dwelling and retain existing extension
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20584
28 Oct 2020N/a
proposed extension to existing dwelling and to retain existing extension and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 20558
10 Aug 2020Conditional
delete condition 3 of permission 15/403 to allow the continuance of use of the site and premises after the 31st December 2020. The facility operates under an Industrial Emissions Licence granted by the Environmental Protection Agency. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. The planning application and EIAR may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours
Permission · Laois County Council, 20409
19 Apr 2017Conditional
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17191
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ridge of Portlaoise 000876
Recorded monuments
- LA013-003 Church
Description
Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The site of this church was indicated by a heap of stones (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 192). No visible surface remains survive. Field was sown with barley at time of visit, low-lying marshy area, site was destroyed and stone was removed c. 30 years ago. 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 Kyleclonhobert.
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 Kyleclonhobert.
- 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 Kyleclonhobert with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Kyleclonhobert · Cill Chluana Hoibeaird
- Area
- 1,143,845 m² (114.38 ha, 282.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Borris, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Electoral division
- Borris, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Borris electoral division: 1,797 people in 601 households; 58% of households own their home; 77% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytegan, Clonreher, Clonsoghey, Cooltoran, Gorteen, Kyletalesha, Rossleaghan
- Placenames
- Kyleclonhobert 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.