# Mountfead, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish Mountfead. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,029,811 m² (102.98 ha, 254.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,747 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md - Barony: Maryborough West - Electoral division: Raheen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 495 people lived in 148 households in the Raheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28084 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100867 - Centre: latitude 52.962095, longitude -7.394079 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountfead, from 2,470 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 172,649 m² (17.26 ha, 42.66 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 232679: 172,649 m² (17.26 ha, 42.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232679.md - Parcel 4775925: 170,126 m² (17.01 ha, 42.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4775925.md - Parcel 232733: 85,472 m² (8.55 ha, 21.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232733.md - Parcel 255155: 65,060 m² (6.51 ha, 16.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255155.md - Parcel 255153: 61,109 m² (6.11 ha, 15.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255153.md - Parcel 252613: 60,974 m² (6.1 ha, 15.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252613.md - Parcel 255154: 46,969 m² (4.7 ha, 11.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255154.md - Parcel 230338: 41,591 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230338.md - Parcel 235820: 37,369 m² (3.74 ha, 9.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235820.md - Parcel 255156: 37,057 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255156.md - Parcel 232250: 34,006 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232250.md - Parcel 264638: 32,495 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264638.md - Parcel 231224: 29,548 m² (2.95 ha, 7.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231224.md - Parcel 225257: 29,212 m² (2.92 ha, 7.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225257.md - Parcel 268353: 14,281 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268353.md - Parcel 237079: 13,322 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237079.md - Parcel 248528: 13,244 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248528.md - Parcel 259243: 13,038 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259243.md - Parcel 240418: 13,030 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240418.md - Parcel 267271: 11,718 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267271.md - Parcel 229230: 11,409 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229230.md - Parcel 4775914: 8,530 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4775914.md - Parcel 231347: 8,376 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231347.md - Parcel 267730: 5,970 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267730.md - Parcel 258255: 4,735 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258255.md - Parcel 4227391: 3,376 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4227391.md - Parcel 231677: 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231677.md - Parcel 5965001: 2,470 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965001.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mountfead 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) 1 application, newest first. - 22 Apr 2021, Laois County Council 21251: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct new dwelling house, garage, site access via existing laneway, new septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21251/0 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 Mountfead. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA017-016: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA017-016----. Situated in a low lying marshy area. Marked on 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch map, a large subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 115m). Defined by a scarp (H c. 1m) from NW-NE, otherwise no visible surface remains. Land has been levelled and reclaimed. 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 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 Mountfead. ## 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 Mountfead, 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountfead. - 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/mountfead.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountfead.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountfead.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountfead 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) - Bawnaree: https://everytownland.com/laois/bawnaree.md - Clonawoolan: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonawoolan.md - Cromoge: https://everytownland.com/laois/cromoge.md - Doon: https://everytownland.com/laois/doon-100529.md - Foxburrow: https://everytownland.com/laois/foxburrow.md - Rosskelton: https://everytownland.com/laois/rosskelton.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/mountfead - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/mountfead