Loughnamuck

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughnamuck, from 1,120 m² to 5,114 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Loughnamuck 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.

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, connection to public water mains, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560094

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works (Outline Permission Ref no.2260019)

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360315

• 5 Dec 2022Conditional

  construct a dwellinghouse, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2260019

• 30 Nov 2022N/a

  construct a dwellinghouse, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2260015

• 29 Nov 2022N/a

  Dwellinghouse, entrance, garage, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2260009

• 27 Mar 2018Conditional

  retain extension to dwelling house. The extension includes, front porch, also kitchen, utility and two bedrooms at rear of house

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18180

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 Loughnamuck.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughnamuck.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 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 Loughnamuck.

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.

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

Name

Loughnamuck · Loch na Muc

Area

20,428 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres)

Civil parish

Durrow, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Dunmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore electoral division: 284 people in 93 households; 90% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castledurrow Demesne, Castleview, Glebe, Swan

Placenames

Loughnamuck 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.