# Park Upper, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Dysartenos, barony of Stradbally, Co. Laois; in Irish An Pháirc Uachtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,723,612 m² (172.36 ha, 425.91 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,601 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Dysartenos, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/dysartenos.md
- Barony: Stradbally
- Electoral division: Stradbally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28220
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100909
- Centre: latitude 53.028635, longitude -7.184817 (WGS 84)

## 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); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 246292: 566,564 m² (56.66 ha, 140 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246292.md
- Parcel 235707: 301,663 m² (30.17 ha, 74.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235707.md
- Parcel 232698: 267,329 m² (26.73 ha, 66.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232698.md
- Parcel 227891: 189,129 m² (18.91 ha, 46.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227891.md
- Parcel 5448748: 77,999 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5448748.md
- Parcel 251602: 68,593 m² (6.86 ha, 16.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251602.md
- Parcel 249901: 55,266 m² (5.53 ha, 13.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249901.md
- Parcel 243613: 43,755 m² (4.38 ha, 10.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243613.md
- Parcel 254031: 38,894 m² (3.89 ha, 9.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254031.md
- Parcel 257025: 30,258 m² (3.03 ha, 7.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257025.md
- Parcel 267169: 28,466 m² (2.85 ha, 7.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267169.md
- Parcel 265272: 8,282 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265272.md
- Parcel 259930: 7,753 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259930.md
- Parcel 257159: 6,154 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257159.md
- Parcel 245843: 5,048 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245843.md
- Parcel 232374: 4,840 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232374.md
- Parcel 2387259: 4,736 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2387259.md
- Parcel 266554: 3,255 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266554.md
- Parcel 227584: 2,971 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227584.md
- Parcel 254559: 2,842 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254559.md
- Parcel 2460206: 2,372 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2460206.md
- Parcel 263778: 1,999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263778.md
- Parcel 240790: 1,829 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/240790.md
- Parcel 258514: 1,444 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/258514.md
- Parcel 257208: 1,279 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/257208.md
- Parcel 232021: 1,108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/232021.md
- Parcel 258014: 938 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/258014.md
- Parcel 229725: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/229725.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 21 Jul 2026, Laois County Council 2660495: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain a Sunroom extension to the front of existing dwelling as constructed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660495/0
- 1 Apr 2026, Laois County Council 2660176: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660176/0
- 16 Jul 2025, Laois County Council 2560436: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560436/0
- 22 May 2020, Laois County Council 20245: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20245/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilteale Hill, site code 000867

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA014-027001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA014-027001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA014-027002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA014-103----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA014-104----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA014-105----. 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

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 Park Upper.

## 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 Park Upper, 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 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 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/park-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/park-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/park-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/laois.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghnahily: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghnahily.md
- Ballycarroll: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycarroll-100075.md
- Ballymaddock: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballymaddock-100132.md
- Grange Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-lower.md
- Grange Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-upper.md
- Kilteale: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilteale.md
- Park Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/park-lower.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.

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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.

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