Maidenhead

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maidenhead, from 73 m² to 619,192 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Maidenhead 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.

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  erect a new bungalow dwelling, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660562

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 Maidenhead.

Recorded monuments

• LA026-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a hillside in a very prominent position with excellent views to W, N and E. A subcircular area (diam. 19.8m N-S) defined by low earthen bank (Wth c. 2.2m; ext. H c. 1.05m, int. H c. 0.2m W c. 2.2m) best preserved at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA026-056 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular enclosure (approx. diam. 48m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 September 2019

• LA032-047 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of possible hilltop enclosure (approx. diam. 93m; overall diam. 160m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark of outer enclosing element follows contour line depicted on OS 6-inch map See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Maidenhead, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Maidenhead with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Maidenhead · Na Garráin

Area

1,309,904 m² (130.99 ha, 323.68 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Farnans, the unit of the census

Census 2022

208 people lived in 70 households in the Farnans electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfield, Ballynagall, Castletown, Coolanowle, Farnans

Placenames

Maidenhead 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.