Ringstown

115 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ringstown, from 206 m² to 677,790 m² (67.78 ha, 167.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ringstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 6 Aug 2026Conditional

  renovate and extend existing dwellinghouse, including internal alterations and changes to external elevations and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2653

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  construct an extension to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2650

• 6 Feb 2026N/a

  retain a domestic and agricultural storage shed as constructed to the rear of dwelling house

  Retention · Laois County Council, 266

• 29 Sept 2025N/a

  retain a domestic and agricultural storage shed as constructed to the rear of house

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2588

• 18 Sept 2025N/a

  retain an existing shed for agricultural use

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2585

• 18 Sept 2025N/a

  retain an existing shed for agricultural use

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2586

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  construct a single span extension to existing agricultural shed, new silage pit, new slatted tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2559

• 21 Jul 2025N/a

  construct a single span extension to existing agricultural shed, new silage pit, new slatted tank and all ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2557

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  retain hard standing area and new site entrance

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2554

• 15 Jul 2025N/a

  construct a single span extension of existing agricultural shed, new silage pit, new slatted tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2555

• 14 Jul 2025N/a

  retain hard standing area and new site entrance

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2553

• 25 Feb 2025N/a

  permission for hard standing area and new site entrance

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2514

• 23 Dec 2024Refused

  retain a part domestic and part commercial shed as constructed to the rear of dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 24158

• 12 Jul 2024Conditional

  construct silage slab and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2498

• 9 Jul 2024N/a

  erect silage slab and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2496

• 2 Jul 2024N/a

  construct silage slab and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2490

• 6 Mar 2024N/a

  retain a domestic shed as constructed to the rear of dwelling house

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2433

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  demolish existing shed and re-build new cattle shed with slatted unit

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20698

• 21 Jul 2020N/a

  retain a window on east facing wall, outhouse, relocated well, gated entrance, piers and wall, change to the internal layout of walls within the dwelling's first floor, omission of 4 windows on north facing roof and one window from south facing roof

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20373

• 14 Jul 2020N/a

  retain a window on east facing wall, outhouse, relocated well, gated entrance, piers and wall, change to the internal layout of walls within the dwelling's first floor, omission of 4 windows on north facing roof and one window from south facing roof

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20354

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  construct a 450 square metre agricultural building cladded in green profiled sheeting to be 30.0m long x 15.0m wide with a ridge height of 7.0m together with associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18662

• 22 Oct 2018N/a

  construct a 450 square metre agricultural building cladded in green profiled sheeting to be 30.0m long x 15.0m wide with a ridge height of 7.0m together with associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18634

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  provide extension to existing dwelling and for permission to RETAIN existing attic conversion any any associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17238

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 Ringstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ringstown.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ringstown.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ringstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2028 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ringstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ringstown · Baile Rinn

Area

4,338,824 m² (433.88 ha, 1,072.15 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Mountrath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,681 people lived in 962 households in the Mountrath electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockra, Cappanacleare, Clonbarrow, Cloncullen, Clonenagh, Derrylusk, Iry, Redcastle, Sconce Lower

Placenames

Ringstown 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.