Omoresforest
Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish Foraois Uí Mhórdha
- Area
- 434.2 ha
- 1,073 acres
- Land parcels
- 168
- registered freehold, median 6,412 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
168 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Omoresforest, from 212 m² to 264,118 m² (26.41 ha, 65.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Omoresforest 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Nov 2025Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works at O'Moores Forest, Mountmellick, Co. Laois
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 25111
3 Nov 2025N/a
construct a two storey dwelling house , domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works .
Permission · Laois County Council, 25104
31 Jul 2025Conditional
erect a sheep shed with an effluent tank, concrete yards and ancillary works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560462
17 Feb 2025Conditional
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560077
13 Feb 2025N/a
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560072
7 Mar 2024Conditional
demolish an existing water tower structure; (2) remove 2 no. existing prefabricated classrooms; (3) construct a single-storey extension (approx. GIFA of 488m2) to the west of the existing school building; (4) construct a second single-storey extension (approx. GIFA of 15m2) to the rear of the existing school building; (5) create a new vehicular entrance and staff carpark with storm attenuation system; (6) install a new wastewater treatment system, and; (7) for all associated site works required to facilitate the development.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460118
19 Feb 2024N/a
(1) to demolish an existing water tower structure; (2) remove 2 no. existing prefabricated classrooms; (3) construct a single-storey extension (approx. GIFA of 488m2) to the west of the existing school building; (4) construct a second single-storey extension (approx. GIFA of 15m2) to the rear of the existing school building; (5) create a new vehicular entrance and staff carpark with storm attenuation system; (6) install a new wastewater treatment system; (7) decommission existing private well and boring of a new private well, and; (8) carry out all other associated site works required to facilitate the development.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460074
10 Oct 2022Conditional
construct an outdoor feeding space for cattle and a slatted slurry tank and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 22630
6 Aug 2021Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21557
16 Nov 2020Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a proprietary treatment system with percolation area, modify existing domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20595
19 Nov 2019Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a proprietary treatment system with percolation area, bored well, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19634
12 Jul 2019Conditional
erection of a new prefabricated two classroom temporary structure to the front of the existing school building for use as an ASD unit including all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19395
17 Jul 2017Conditional
construct a private dwelling house, proprietry effluent system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17381
3 Jul 2017N/a
construct a private dwelling house, proprietry effluent system and percolation area, domestic garage, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services at O'Moore Forest, Mountmellick, Co. Laois.
Permission · Laois County Council, 17347
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Omoresforest.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Omoresforest.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Omoresforest.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Omoresforest with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Omoresforest · Foraois Uí Mhórdha
- Area
- 4,342,434 m² (434.24 ha, 1,073.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- O'Moresforest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- O'Moresforest electoral division: 513 people in 167 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barkmill, Cloncanon Lower, Cloncanon Upper, Clonsoghey, Clontyglass, Clonygowan, Derrycloney, Drinagh, Rossnagad
- Placenames
- Omoresforest 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.