Loughlass

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughlass, from 26 m² to 232,284 m² (23.23 ha, 57.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Loughlass 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.

• 15 Nov 2022Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, site access by use of a shared existing entrance and driveway, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22698

• 2 Oct 2020Conditional

  construct a granny flat extension to the rear of existing dwelling house with alterations and renovations to same dwelling; demolish previously built extensions and demolish domestic shed to facilitate the proposed granny flat extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20507

• 23 Sept 2020N/a

  construct an extension to existing dwelling house with alterations and renovations to same dwelling; demolish previously built extensions and demolish domestic shed to facilitate the proposed extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20482

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, including forming new entrance, driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20450

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  retain dwelling house as constructed and associated site work. Dwelling previously granted planning under planning ref: 400/90

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19284

• 20 May 2019N/a

  retain dwelling house as constructed and associated site work

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19266

• 25 Jun 2018Conditional

  retain soil as imported and spread same, full permission to import additional subsoil and topsoil to raise ground level and to spread and seed same. Planning permission for the construction of 2 no horse shelters and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18373

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughlass.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughlass.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Loughlass, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughlass.

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.

No address of the register names Loughlass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Loughlass · An Loch Glas

Area

556,199 m² (55.62 ha, 137.44 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyadams, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Ballylynan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,527 people lived in 521 households in the Ballylynan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbally, Fallaghmore, Parkahoughill, Raheenbarnagh, Tullomoy

Placenames

Loughlass 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.