# Maghareagh, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tankardstown, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois; in Irish An Machaire Riabhach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 604,301 m² (60.43 ha, 149.33 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,939 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tankardstown, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/tankardstown.md - Barony: Ballyadams - Electoral division: Tankardstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 405 people lived in 121 households in the Tankardstown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28243 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100827 - Centre: latitude 52.941575, longitude -6.980736 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghareagh, from 308 m² to 143,799 m² (14.38 ha, 35.53 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5573733: 143,799 m² (14.38 ha, 35.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5573733.md - Parcel 250764: 110,292 m² (11.03 ha, 27.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250764.md - Parcel 229146: 76,679 m² (7.67 ha, 18.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229146.md - Parcel 5579126: 75,679 m² (7.57 ha, 18.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5579126.md - Parcel 253348: 46,730 m² (4.67 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253348.md - Parcel 254094: 29,839 m² (2.98 ha, 7.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254094.md - Parcel 265336: 26,940 m² (2.69 ha, 6.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265336.md - Parcel 246725: 19,698 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246725.md - Parcel 264298: 15,291 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264298.md - Parcel 4898704: 13,181 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898704.md - Parcel 236994: 11,331 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236994.md - Parcel 245705: 7,939 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245705.md - Parcel 242256: 5,148 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242256.md - Parcel 4432012: 4,356 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4432012.md - Parcel 246682: 3,739 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246682.md - Parcel 259053: 3,359 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259053.md - Parcel 228352: 2,959 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228352.md - Parcel 260651: 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260651.md - Parcel 226303: 1,586 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/226303.md - Parcel 266905: 1,565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/266905.md - Parcel 268590: 1,210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/268590.md - Parcel 266526: 534 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/266526.md - Parcel 267887: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/267887.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Maghareagh 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 30 Jul 2021, Laois County Council 21542: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work. The said house to include an independent living unit (granny flat). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21542/0 - 23 Sept 2020, Laois County Council 20480: Conditional. Permission. construct an agricultural entrance ( cow crossing), necessary signage and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20480/0 - 4 Apr 2019, Laois County Council 19194: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct an extension to dwelling house, necessary renovations to same house, install new waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19194/0 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 Maghareagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maghareagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maghareagh. ## 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 Maghareagh, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2401, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2401.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/maghareagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/maghareagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/maghareagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Maghareagh 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) - Ballinree: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballinree.md - Ballybeg: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballybeg.md - Kilmorony: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilmorony.md - Milford: https://everytownland.com/laois/milford.md - Monebrock: https://everytownland.com/laois/monebrock.md - Tankardstown: https://everytownland.com/laois/tankardstown.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/maghareagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/maghareagh