# Mountoliver, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathsaran, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Cnocán Oilibhéir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 463,534 m² (46.35 ha, 114.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,860 m² (1.59 ha, 3.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathsaran, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathsaran.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Rathsaran, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28797 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100869 - Centre: latitude 52.858757, longitude -7.621464 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4981272: 208,241 m² (20.82 ha, 51.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981272.md - Parcel 5079656: 87,580 m² (8.76 ha, 21.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5079656.md - Parcel 5500160: 66,837 m² (6.68 ha, 16.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5500160.md - Parcel 5573596: 46,125 m² (4.61 ha, 11.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5573596.md - Parcel 263021: 22,163 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263021.md - Parcel 5828694: 9,556 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5828694.md - Parcel 229335: 8,548 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229335.md - Parcel 254615: 4,725 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254615.md - Parcel 241107: 4,028 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241107.md - Parcel 5079655: 2,685 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5079655.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 9 Dec 2025, Laois County Council 2560832: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. sub-divide site, construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area using existing entrance and all necessary and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560832/0 - 5 Dec 2025, Laois County Council 2560817: N/a. Permission. sub-divide site, construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area using existing entrance and all necessary and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560817/0 - 11 May 2021, Laois County Council 21318: Conditional. Retention. retention planning permission to retain domestic garage and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21318/0 - 8 Apr 2021, Laois County Council 21211: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. to construct a 2 storey dwelling, redesigned site entrance, stable/garage, waste water treatment system, and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21211/0 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 Mountoliver. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountoliver. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1850, Regional interest, registry number 12802829, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LA®no=12802829. Detached four-bay Catholic church, c. 1840, on a T-shaped plan with sacristy projection to rear. Now disused. ## 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1855.zip (ZIP). - 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/mountoliver.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountoliver.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountoliver.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountoliver 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) - Barrahill: https://everytownland.com/laois/barrahill.md - Grogan: https://everytownland.com/laois/grogan.md - Johnstown Glebe: https://everytownland.com/laois/johnstown-glebe.md - Rathsaran Glebe: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathsaran-glebe.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/mountoliver - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/mountoliver