Park Upper
Park Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Dysartenos, barony of Stradbally, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An Pháirc Uachtarach.
- Area
- 172.4 ha
- 426 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 5,601 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Park Upper, from 139 m² to 566,564 m² (56.66 ha, 140 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Park Upper 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
21 Jul 2026Conditional
retain a Sunroom extension to the front of existing dwelling as constructed and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660495
1 Apr 2026Conditional
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660176
16 Jul 2025Conditional
modify the north-east and north-west elevations of the existing dwelling, the change of use of the existing garage to accommodate a living room and gym with the addition of a new A-type roof, a single-storey rear extension linking the main dwelling to the converted garage, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560436
22 May 2020Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20245
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilteale Hill 000867
Recorded monuments
- LA014-027001 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of subcircular enclosures, one of which is marked on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map (diam. c. 30m N-S), visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, AIF 74-5). No visible surface remains. Linear features (LA014-027002-) run to NE. 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
- LA014-027002 Linear earthwork
Description
Linear features, running NE from enclosures (LA014-027001-) visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, 74-5). No visible surface remains. 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
- LA014-103 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 09 September 2019
- LA014-104 Ring-ditch
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 09 September 2019
- LA014-105 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 09 September 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Park Upper.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Park Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Park Upper.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Park Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Park Upper · An Pháirc Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,723,612 m² (172.36 ha, 425.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysartenos, and its townlands
- Barony
- Stradbally
- Electoral division
- Stradbally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,912 people lived in 725 households in the Stradbally electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnahily, Ballycarroll, Ballymaddock, Grange Lower, Grange Upper, Kilteale, Park Lower
- Placenames
- Park Upper 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.