# Rapla, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghmacart, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Raplach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,488,658 m² (148.87 ha, 367.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,485 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghmacart, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghmacart.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Kilnaseer, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 325 people lived in 112 households in the Kilnaseer electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% 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/28067 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100953 - Centre: latitude 52.828317, longitude -7.522283 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rapla, from 204 m² to 220,771 m² (22.08 ha, 54.55 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 251966: 220,771 m² (22.08 ha, 54.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251966.md - Parcel 255604: 167,003 m² (16.7 ha, 41.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255604.md - Parcel 245055: 130,865 m² (13.09 ha, 32.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245055.md - Parcel 5297359: 127,534 m² (12.75 ha, 31.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297359.md - Parcel 2470623: 80,116 m² (8.01 ha, 19.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2470623.md - Parcel 2446748: 71,547 m² (7.15 ha, 17.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2446748.md - Parcel 260402: 71,490 m² (7.15 ha, 17.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260402.md - Parcel 249851: 59,535 m² (5.95 ha, 14.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249851.md - Parcel 230156: 48,065 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230156.md - Parcel 262816: 42,060 m² (4.21 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262816.md - Parcel 2456676: 41,261 m² (4.13 ha, 10.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2456676.md - Parcel 239507: 39,419 m² (3.94 ha, 9.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239507.md - Parcel 267984: 38,950 m² (3.9 ha, 9.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267984.md - Parcel 256540: 37,941 m² (3.79 ha, 9.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256540.md - Parcel 265812: 36,208 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265812.md - Parcel 263649: 34,654 m² (3.47 ha, 8.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263649.md - Parcel 259206: 33,492 m² (3.35 ha, 8.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259206.md - Parcel 235205: 31,334 m² (3.13 ha, 7.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235205.md - Parcel 267328: 23,007 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267328.md - Parcel 263409: 22,030 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263409.md - Parcel 258509: 16,940 m² (1.69 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258509.md - Parcel 247599: 16,820 m² (1.68 ha, 4.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247599.md - Parcel 5749290: 16,005 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749290.md - Parcel 5749305: 13,759 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749305.md - Parcel 5243349: 10,793 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5243349.md - Parcel 265308: 7,075 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265308.md - Parcel 232254: 7,056 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232254.md - Parcel 245534: 5,956 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245534.md - Parcel 225977: 4,983 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225977.md - Parcel 4076344: 4,043 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4076344.md - Parcel 2446898: 3,533 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2446898.md - Parcel 2487631: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487631.md - Parcel 267140: 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267140.md - Parcel 359215: 2,924 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359215.md - Parcel 230593: 2,216 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230593.md - Parcel 5566160: 2,049 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5566160.md - Parcel 263336: 1,443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263336.md - Parcel 225489: 1,243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/225489.md - Parcel 3934785: 358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3934785.md - Parcel 4455370: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4455370.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rapla 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2022, Laois County Council 22260: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. retain porch to front of dwelling and extension to rear of dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22260/0 - 26 Apr 2022, Laois County Council 22256: N/a. Retention. retain porch to front of dwelling and extension to rear of dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22256/0 - 17 Apr 2018, Laois County Council 18230: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single-storey dwellinghgouse, garage, entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18230/0 - 31 Jan 2018, Laois County Council 1838: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. increase width of existing entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1838/0 - 22 Dec 2017, Laois County Council 17716: Conditional. Permission. construct (i) milking parlour with dairy room and collecting/crush yard area (ii) cubicles house with slatted tanks (iii) new farm entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17716/0 - 7 Feb 2017, Laois County Council 1769: Conditional. Permission. remove existing entrance; relocate entrance; realign front boundary including partial demolition of agricultural building and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1769/0 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 Rapla. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rapla. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rapla. ## 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 Rapla, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rapla. - 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/rapla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/rapla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/rapla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rapla 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) - Aghmacart: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghmacart.md - Ballydavin: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballydavin.md - Graigueagarran: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigueagarran.md - Kilnaseer: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilnaseer.md - Knockfin: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockfin.md - Srah: https://everytownland.com/laois/srah.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/rapla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/rapla