Mountainfarm

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountainfarm, from 785 m² to 1,266,028 m² (126.6 ha, 312.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Mountainfarm 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.

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct a Single storey dwelling with new vehicle access entrance, an effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460636

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Construct single storey dwelling with new vehicle access entrance, an effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460617

• 23 Apr 2024Refused

  construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460212

• 12 Apr 2024N/a

  Construction of single storey dwelling with effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460190

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• LA011-005 Font (present location)
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The font (LA011-023004-) was originally located in Killinure church (LA011-023), it was moved during Penal times to 'Burke's Cross' where Mass was said in the open (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). A limestone subcircular font (dims NW-SE c. 0.65m, NE-SW c. 0.75m, D c. 0.23m) with central drain-hole. According to Carrigan 'the holy water font that once belonged to it [Killanure Church] is still to be seen at "Burke's Cross", a little beyond Killanure Chapel, in the direction of Mountrath. This font is of freestone, and like thos of Srahane and Killeen is rough and unhewn, with a large basin 14 in. in diamtere and 9 in. deep. During the Penal times, Mass used to be said in the open air, a few perches from Burke's Cross, and the font was brought there from Killanure churchyard, wherever that was, to be used by the people for its original purpose' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). 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

• LA011-023 Church
  Description

  The location of this possible church cannot be precisely located as recorded by Carrigan who stated in 1905 that 'the site of this church, which, like several other churches in Upperwoods, was probably of wood, cannot be pointed out' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). According to Carrigan the townland name is derived from the Church of the yew tree (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). A font (LA011-005/LA011-023002-) now at Burke's cross originally came from this unlocated church site (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). It may be possible that the R. C. church at Killanure was built on the site of an earlier church which may explain the finding of the font on the site of the R. C. church. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 15 September 2010

• LA011-023001 Graveyard
  Description

  The location of this possible church cannot be precisely located as recorded by Carrigan who stated in 1905 that 'the site of this church, which, like several other churches in Upperwoods, was probably of wood, cannot be pointed out' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). According to Carrigan the townland name is derived from the Church of the yew tree (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). A font (LA011-005/LA011-023002-) now at Burke's cross originally came from this unlocated church site (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). It may be possible that the R. C. church at Killanure was built on the site of an earlier church which may explain the finding of the font on the site of the R. C. church. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 15 September 2010

• LA011-023002 Font
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Originally in use in Killinure R. C. church (LA011-023), it was moved during Penal times to 'Burke's Cross' (LA011-005-) where Mass was said in the open (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 152). A limestone subcircular font (Dims NW-SE c. 0.65m, NE-SW c. 0.75m, D c. 0.23m) with central draining hole. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Mountainfarm.

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

Name

Mountainfarm · Feirm an tSléibhe

Area

2,533,090 m² (253.31 ha, 625.94 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Lacka, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lacka electoral division: 309 people in 96 households; 96% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bockagh, Drim, Drimhill or Quarryfarm, Drimmo, Inchanisky, Killinure, Rossalee, Whitefield

Placenames

Mountainfarm 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.