# Pass, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyroan, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Bhearna. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,437,224 m² (143.72 ha, 355.15 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,190 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyroan, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/ballyroan.md - Barony: Cullenagh - Electoral division: Cullenagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Cullenagh electoral division: 151 people in 50 households; 90% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% 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/27896 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100916 - Centre: latitude 52.98368, longitude -7.277972 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pass, from 1,977 m² to 193,053 m² (19.31 ha, 47.7 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 251314: 193,053 m² (19.31 ha, 47.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251314.md - Parcel 247329: 167,656 m² (16.77 ha, 41.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247329.md - Parcel 4546860: 117,228 m² (11.72 ha, 28.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4546860.md - Parcel 248532: 89,213 m² (8.92 ha, 22.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248532.md - Parcel 230372: 74,750 m² (7.47 ha, 18.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230372.md - Parcel 266249: 67,308 m² (6.73 ha, 16.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266249.md - Parcel 4789763: 65,266 m² (6.53 ha, 16.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4789763.md - Parcel 265243: 52,981 m² (5.3 ha, 13.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265243.md - Parcel 255147: 50,372 m² (5.04 ha, 12.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255147.md - Parcel 243018: 50,255 m² (5.03 ha, 12.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243018.md - Parcel 228809: 44,884 m² (4.49 ha, 11.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228809.md - Parcel 228843: 42,939 m² (4.29 ha, 10.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228843.md - Parcel 233171: 30,535 m² (3.05 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233171.md - Parcel 257632: 24,509 m² (2.45 ha, 6.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257632.md - Parcel 227403: 16,523 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227403.md - Parcel 242587: 15,858 m² (1.59 ha, 3.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242587.md - Parcel 225088: 15,440 m² (1.54 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225088.md - Parcel 257005: 14,736 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257005.md - Parcel 258541: 12,944 m² (1.29 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258541.md - Parcel 237131: 10,018 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237131.md - Parcel 5542152: 7,718 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542152.md - Parcel 5444938: 7,502 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5444938.md - Parcel 226114: 4,459 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226114.md - Parcel 240499: 3,981 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240499.md - Parcel 5542157: 3,529 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542157.md - Parcel 5542158: 3,436 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542158.md - Parcel 4547359: 3,414 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4547359.md - Parcel 5542160: 2,521 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542160.md - Parcel 240179: 2,368 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240179.md - Parcel 260047: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/260047.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Pass 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 29 Jan 2021, Laois County Council 2138: Conditional. Permission. Erect solar panels and associated services on an existing farm shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2138/0 - 16 Apr 2019, Laois County Council 19215: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a farm shed containing cubicles and an automatic milking system, a slurry/washings storage tank and associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19215/0 - 15 Apr 2019, Laois County Council 19212: N/a. Permission. construct a farm shed containing cubicles and an automatic milking system, a slurry/washings storage tank and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19212/0 - 30 Jan 2017, Laois County Council 1742: N/a. Retention. retain infill of 16,600 tonnes of in earth sub soil to existing low laying field and a 10 year PLANNING PERMISSION for infill of 83,337 tonnes of in earth sub soil to cover total extent of site (15.5 acres) and to include all associated site works. This development requires a waste licence. Original Planning Permission Reference 06896. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1742/0 - 6 Jan 2017, Laois County Council 1712: N/a. Retention. retain is sought for infill of 16,600 tonnes of in earth sub soil to existing low laying field and a 10 year PLANNING PERMISSION for infill of 83,337 tonnes of in earth sub soil to cover total extent of site (15.5 acres) and to include all associated site works. This development requires a waste licence. Original Planning Permission reference 06896. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1712/0 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 Pass. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA018-016: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA018-016----. Not marked as an antiquity on the 1841 or 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The house was built in Cromwellian times (Dooley n.d., 61). In undulating countryside. A two storey high rectangular-shaped house with attic (L c. 21.2m, Wth c. 10m, wall T c.1.4m). Two bay windows have replaced older windows in the front of the house. Still occupied. 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 - LA018-018: Architectural fragment, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA018-018----. Not marked on the 1841 or 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Situated in a mill, in marshy low-lying ground, beside a stream. Masonry from Kilvahan Church (LA018-017001-) was used in the construction of a nearby tuck milll (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, 189). Six cut and roughly dressed stones with rough pocking and a number of large undressed stones, are visible in S wall of mill; alos a cut stone in the NW corner. 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 - LA018-034: Battlefield, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA018-034----. Unlocated Battlefield site within townland which is mentioned in the Laois County Council , Co. Laois Development Plan 1983, p. 14. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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 Pass. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Pass. - 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/pass.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/pass.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/pass.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Pass 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) - Ballycarnan: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycarnan.md - Ballyheyland: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyheyland.md - Ballyknockan: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyknockan.md - Cashel: https://everytownland.com/laois/cashel-100283.md - Cullenagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/cullenagh-100467.md - Kilvahan: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilvahan.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/pass - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/pass