Mountoliver

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountoliver, from 2,685 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 208,241 m² (20.82 ha, 51.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Mountoliver 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.

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  sub-divide site, construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area using existing entrance and all necessary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560832

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  sub-divide site, construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area using existing entrance and all necessary and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560817

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  retention planning permission to retain domestic garage and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21318

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, redesigned site entrance, stable/garage, waste water treatment system, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21211

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 Mountoliver.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountoliver.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay Catholic church, c. 1840, on a T-shaped plan with sacristy projection to rear. Now disused.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1855 (ZIP).

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

Name

Mountoliver · Cnocán Oilibhéir

Area

463,534 m² (46.35 ha, 114.54 acres)

Civil parish

Rathsaran, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Rathsaran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathsaran electoral division: 604 people in 218 households; 84% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrahill, Grogan, Johnstown Glebe, Rathsaran Glebe

Placenames

Mountoliver 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.