Rathleash

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathleash, from 10 m² to 331,329 m² (33.13 ha, 81.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Jun 2023Conditional

  retain a two storey extension to existing dwelling house, consisting of 3 bedrooms,2 ensuite bathrooms lobby and stairwell.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23171

• 10 Mar 2023Conditional

  Retention planning permission is sought for an extension to the side of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360087

• 13 Jan 2023N/a

  construct two storey extension to existing dwelling house consisting of 3 bedrooms, 2 ensuite bathrooms, lobby & stairwell

  Retention · Laois County Council, 236

• 13 Jan 2022Conditional

  permission for amendments to previously approved planning permission ref. no 20/206. Amendments consist of 1)part demolition of existing dwelling, reconstruction of same and change of use from dwelling to domestic shed and, 2(the omission of the previously approved new garage and all associated ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 229

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  demolish an existing uninhabited single storey 64sqm dwelling unit and a 24 sqm existing masonry shed and replace with the construction of a 2 storey 280.6 sqm, 4 bedroom dwelling house, 44 sqm garage, septic tank with percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20206

• 28 Apr 2020N/a

  demolish an existing uninhabited single storey 64sqm dwelling and a 24sqm existing masonry shed and replace with the construction of a two storey 280.6sqm, 4 bedroom dwelling house, 44sqm garage, septic tank with percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated ancillary works located at Rathmiles Avenue, Rathleash, Killenard, portarlington, Co. laois

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20203

• 21 Aug 2019Conditional

  amend / change house plans as granted under planning reference 16/380 and relocate domestic garage, regarding a single-storey and part two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste treatment (septic tank) system and a new site entrance

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19478

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  extend dwelling by removal of existing roof; construction of new dormer first floor extension; new external alterations to include stone gable and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17394

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathleash.

Recorded monuments

• LA005-012 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Natural hillock with scrub of no archaeological interest, depicted as a landscape feature or grove of trees and not as an antiquity on first edition of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA005-013 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1910 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; a subcircular area (max. diam. c. 70m N-S). No visible surface remains apart from a slight depression in the area of the site. Visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (GSI, N 411-12). 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

Architectural heritage

• Huntingdon House, gate lodge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c. 1830. Extended, c. 1970.

• Huntington House, country house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey late-Georgian country house, c.1820, with gabled projecting glazed porch. Stable complex to site.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Rathleash.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

No address of the register names Rathleash with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Rathleash · Ráth Laoisigh

Area

1,304,108 m² (130.41 ha, 322.25 acres)

Civil parish

Lea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Ballybrittas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybrittas electoral division: 1,520 people in 452 households; 89% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymorris, Doolough, Garryvacum, Lough, Rathmiles, Tirhogar

Placenames

Rathleash on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. 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.