# Poormansbridge, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyleix, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Beál Átha Darach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,122,105 m² (112.21 ha, 277.28 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,188 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 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: Cullenagh
- Electoral division: Abbeyleix, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Abbeyleix electoral division: 2,979 people in 1,145 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27746
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100919
- Centre: latitude 52.921063, longitude -7.387238 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Poormansbridge, from 1,436 m² to 390,640 m² (39.06 ha, 96.53 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 234051: 390,640 m² (39.06 ha, 96.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234051.md
- Parcel 5343747: 276,030 m² (27.6 ha, 68.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5343747.md
- Parcel 256111: 102,379 m² (10.24 ha, 25.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256111.md
- Parcel 268479: 77,823 m² (7.78 ha, 19.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268479.md
- Parcel 358313: 72,769 m² (7.28 ha, 17.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/358313.md
- Parcel 263986: 47,312 m² (4.73 ha, 11.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263986.md
- Parcel 260637: 47,070 m² (4.71 ha, 11.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260637.md
- Parcel 252871: 29,156 m² (2.92 ha, 7.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252871.md
- Parcel 4621481: 24,682 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4621481.md
- Parcel 5593148: 11,694 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5593148.md
- Parcel 262211: 8,754 m² (0.88 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262211.md
- Parcel 244720: 7,069 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244720.md
- Parcel 264432: 4,593 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264432.md
- Parcel 242499: 3,407 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242499.md
- Parcel 248569: 3,328 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248569.md
- Parcel 4269157: 2,435 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269157.md
- Parcel 245817: 1,546 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/245817.md
- Parcel 250099: 1,436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/250099.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Poormansbridge 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.

- 9 Apr 2019, Laois County Council 19202: Conditional. Permission. 1). erect an agricultural machinery storage shed 2). relocate and set back of existing entry and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19202/0
- 14 Sept 2018, Laois County Council 18560: N/a. Permission, 1 home. demolish the existing single storey sunroom and utility to the rear of the existing dwelling and the existing front porch. To construct a new two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and internal modifications, elevational changes with new pitch roof to existing dwelling.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18560/0
- 20 Dec 2017, Laois County Council 17698: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolish existing hayshed and construct a slatted cubicle house and all associated works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17698/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162
- Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA, site code 004233, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004233
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Nore/Abbeyleix Woods Complex, site code 002076

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

- LA023-026: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA023-026----. In undulating countryside. This is a tree-ring. 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 Poormansbridge.

## 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 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 Poormansbridge.
- 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/poormansbridge.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/poormansbridge.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/poormansbridge.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Poormansbridge 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)

- Ballytarsna: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballytarsna-100165.md
- Blackhills: https://everytownland.com/laois/blackhills.md
- Boley: https://everytownland.com/laois/boley-100205.md
- Boley Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/boley-lower.md
- Cappanacloghy: https://everytownland.com/laois/cappanacloghy.md
- Derrykearn: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrykearn.md
- Tullyroe: https://everytownland.com/laois/tullyroe.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/poormansbridge
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/poormansbridge