Levally
Levally is a townland in the civil parish of Erke, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An Leathbhaile.
- Area
- 139.6 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 33,557 m² (3.36 ha, 8.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Levally, from 867 m² to 171,957 m² (17.2 ha, 42.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Levally 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
24 May 2019Conditional
construct and complete, for a period of 5 years, a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 67.6 hectares, to include two single storey, 38KV electrical substation buildings & associated infrastructure within a compound, inverter station modules, spare parts container, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works including vehicular access works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18674
30 Oct 2018N/a
construct and complete, for a period of 5 years, a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 67.6 hectares, to include two single storey, 38KV electrical substation buildings & associated infrastructure within a compound, inverter station modules, spare parts container, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works including vehicular access works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18660
18 Dec 2017Conditional
construct new agricultural slatted shed, demolish an existing agricultural shed and replace with a new agricultural shed, construct a further new agricultural shed over an existing concrete yard along with all ancillary services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 17687
15 Dec 2017N/a
construct new agricultural slatted shed, demolish an existing agricultural shed and replace with a new agricultural shed, construct a further new agricultural shed over an existing concrete yard alond with all ancillary services and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 17684
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 Levally.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Levally.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Levally.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Levally, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1913 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Levally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Levally · An Leathbhaile
- Area
- 1,396,377 m² (139.64 ha, 345.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Erke, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clarmallagh
- Electoral division
- Rathdowney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,317 people lived in 524 households in the Rathdowney electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyedmond, Creelagh, Graigueanossy, Graigueard, Kilcoran, Rathpiper South, Srah
- Placenames
- Levally 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.