# Levally, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Erke, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Leathbhaile. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,396,377 m² (139.64 ha, 345.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,557 m² (3.36 ha, 8.29 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Erke, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/erke.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Rathdowney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28100 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100810 - Centre: latitude 52.835776, longitude -7.571856 (WGS 84) ## 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); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 232729: 171,957 m² (17.2 ha, 42.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232729.md - Parcel 5236667: 119,550 m² (11.96 ha, 29.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5236667.md - Parcel 231330: 105,400 m² (10.54 ha, 26.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231330.md - Parcel 251965: 104,831 m² (10.48 ha, 25.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251965.md - Parcel 265324: 88,229 m² (8.82 ha, 21.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265324.md - Parcel 3991623: 78,306 m² (7.83 ha, 19.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3991623.md - Parcel 258037: 70,004 m² (7 ha, 17.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258037.md - Parcel 235493: 55,044 m² (5.5 ha, 13.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235493.md - Parcel 257103: 49,595 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257103.md - Parcel 3609469: 49,248 m² (4.92 ha, 12.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3609469.md - Parcel 225796: 42,177 m² (4.22 ha, 10.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225796.md - Parcel 3593840: 33,557 m² (3.36 ha, 8.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3593840.md - Parcel 228575: 26,584 m² (2.66 ha, 6.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228575.md - Parcel 3309752: 22,825 m² (2.28 ha, 5.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3309752.md - Parcel 264848: 22,633 m² (2.26 ha, 5.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264848.md - Parcel 260996: 13,313 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260996.md - Parcel 253888: 7,165 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253888.md - Parcel 244749: 5,939 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244749.md - Parcel 239625: 4,730 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239625.md - Parcel 226405: 4,559 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226405.md - Parcel 259201: 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259201.md - Parcel 239697: 2,239 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239697.md - Parcel 3631353: 867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3631353.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 24 May 2019, Laois County Council 18674: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18674/0 - 30 Oct 2018, Laois County Council 18660: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18660/0 - 18 Dec 2017, Laois County Council 17687: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17687/0 - 15 Dec 2017, Laois County Council 17684: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17684/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Levally. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Levally. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Levally. ## 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 Levally, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1913, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1913.zip (ZIP). - 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/levally.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/levally.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/levally.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyedmond: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyedmond.md - Creelagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/creelagh.md - Graigueanossy: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigueanossy.md - Graigueard: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigueard.md - Kilcoran: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilcoran.md - Rathpiper South: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathpiper-south.md - Srah: https://everytownland.com/laois/srah.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/levally - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/levally