# Mountainfarm, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Feirm an tSléibhe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,533,090 m² (253.31 ha, 625.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,781 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Lacka, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28523 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100865 - Centre: latitude 53.049681, longitude -7.532724 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountainfarm, from 785 m² to 1,266,028 m² (126.6 ha, 312.84 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 257582: 1,266,028 m² (126.6 ha, 312.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257582.md - Parcel 253768: 269,702 m² (26.97 ha, 66.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253768.md - Parcel 2947604: 151,213 m² (15.12 ha, 37.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2947604.md - Parcel 232155: 139,280 m² (13.93 ha, 34.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232155.md - Parcel 246705: 128,114 m² (12.81 ha, 31.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246705.md - Parcel 2947617: 126,145 m² (12.61 ha, 31.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2947617.md - Parcel 255960: 110,681 m² (11.07 ha, 27.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255960.md - Parcel 231981: 96,827 m² (9.68 ha, 23.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231981.md - Parcel 256884: 53,445 m² (5.34 ha, 13.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256884.md - Parcel 264251: 36,114 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264251.md - Parcel 253767: 24,903 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253767.md - Parcel 259851: 21,203 m² (2.12 ha, 5.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259851.md - Parcel 261891: 20,483 m² (2.05 ha, 5.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261891.md - Parcel 254379: 17,078 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254379.md - Parcel 253794: 12,610 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253794.md - Parcel 245392: 10,920 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245392.md - Parcel 253769: 10,029 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253769.md - Parcel 235625: 8,659 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235625.md - Parcel 262341: 7,117 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262341.md - Parcel 255334: 6,500 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255334.md - Parcel 231980: 5,001 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231980.md - Parcel 4947722: 4,238 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4947722.md - Parcel 225781: 2,382 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225781.md - Parcel 243687: 1,567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/243687.md - Parcel 2456163: 1,011 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2456163.md - Parcel 251699: 785 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/251699.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 21 Oct 2024, Laois County Council 2460636: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a Single storey dwelling with new vehicle access entrance, an effluent treatment system and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460636/0 - 15 Oct 2024, Laois County Council 2460617: N/a. Permission. Construct single storey dwelling with new vehicle access entrance, an effluent treatment system and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460617/0 - 23 Apr 2024, Laois County Council 2460212: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460212/0 - 12 Apr 2024, Laois County Council 2460190: N/a. Permission. Construction of single storey dwelling with effluent treatment system and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460190/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA011-005: Font (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA011-005----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA011-023----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA011-023001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA011-023002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountainfarm. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/mountainfarm.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountainfarm.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountainfarm.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountainfarm 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) - Bockagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/bockagh.md - Drim: https://everytownland.com/laois/drim.md - Drimhill or Quarryfarm: https://everytownland.com/laois/drimhill-or-quarryfarm.md - Drimmo: https://everytownland.com/laois/drimmo.md - Inchanisky: https://everytownland.com/laois/inchanisky.md - Killinure: https://everytownland.com/laois/killinure-100730.md - Rossalee: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossalee.md - Whitefield: https://everytownland.com/laois/whitefield.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/mountainfarm - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/mountainfarm