# Parkbawn, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyleix, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Pháirc Bhán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 299,806 m² (29.98 ha, 74.08 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 53,359 m² (5.34 ha, 13.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Abbeyleix, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/abbeyleix.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Dunmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Dunmore electoral division: 284 people in 93 households; 90% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% 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/27938 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100913 - Centre: latitude 52.881901, longitude -7.400055 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkbawn, from 30,943 m² (3.09 ha, 7.65 acres) to 100,294 m² (10.03 ha, 24.78 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 247704: 100,294 m² (10.03 ha, 24.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247704.md - Parcel 226158: 68,718 m² (6.87 ha, 16.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226158.md - Parcel 235737: 53,359 m² (5.34 ha, 13.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235737.md - Parcel 265007: 46,493 m² (4.65 ha, 11.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265007.md - Parcel 246915: 30,943 m² (3.09 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246915.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Parkbawn 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 23 Nov 2024, Laois County Council 2460706: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with new site entrance and boundary treatments.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460706/0 - 15 Dec 2022, Laois County Council 2260044: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. a proposed 2-Storey dwelling house, garage, site entrance, septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260044/0 - 26 Sept 2022, Laois County Council 22592: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a 2 storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22592/0 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 Parkbawn. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Parkbawn. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parkbawn. ## 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, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Parkbawn. - 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/parkbawn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/parkbawn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/parkbawn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Parkbawn 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) - Abbeyleix Demesne: https://everytownland.com/laois/abbeyleix-demesne.md - Dunmore: https://everytownland.com/laois/dunmore.md - Kyle: https://everytownland.com/laois/kyle-100782.md - Kylebeg: https://everytownland.com/laois/kylebeg-100786.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/parkbawn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/parkbawn