Mannin

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mannin, from 134 m² to 408,133 m² (40.81 ha, 100.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Mannin 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.

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  retain an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660316

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  construct a 2 storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and also to demolish existing disused dwelling and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560221

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  construct a new slatted cubicle shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2452

• 10 Jan 2024Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house, secondary wastewater treatment system and a sand polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works with access via an existing right-of-way

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 246

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mannin Wetland 000868

Recorded monuments

• LA022-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. In undulating countryside. Remains of an oval ringfort (dims. 48m E-W, 42m N-S) with slight evidence of bank at S. Shallow fosse (Wth c. 6m) largely filled in (OPW file). No visible surface remains. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mannin, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mannin · Manainn

Area

2,060,876 m² (206.09 ha, 509.25 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

835 people lived in 287 households in the Castletown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytarsna, Cashel, Clashnamuck, Derrinoliver, Kilbeg, Knockaroe, Lowran, Peafield, Rush Hall

Placenames

Mannin 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.