# Sconce Upper, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish An Sconsa Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,746,550 m² (274.66 ha, 678.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,992 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md - Barony: Maryborough West - Electoral division: Brisha, the unit of the census - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28334 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101020 - Centre: latitude 53.05844, longitude -7.483571 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sconce Upper, from 73 m² to 945,249 m² (94.52 ha, 233.58 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 258873: 945,249 m² (94.52 ha, 233.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258873.md - Parcel 228301: 160,926 m² (16.09 ha, 39.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228301.md - Parcel 228899: 82,834 m² (8.28 ha, 20.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228899.md - Parcel 257938: 57,563 m² (5.76 ha, 14.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257938.md - Parcel 232498: 36,573 m² (3.66 ha, 9.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232498.md - Parcel 230580: 31,991 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230580.md - Parcel 266735: 30,441 m² (3.04 ha, 7.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266735.md - Parcel 260685: 30,333 m² (3.03 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260685.md - Parcel 262847: 28,076 m² (2.81 ha, 6.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262847.md - Parcel 236288: 26,628 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236288.md - Parcel 259827: 23,636 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259827.md - Parcel 242138: 23,087 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242138.md - Parcel 268372: 21,148 m² (2.11 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268372.md - Parcel 258243: 21,071 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258243.md - Parcel 265758: 19,858 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265758.md - Parcel 262035: 19,350 m² (1.94 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262035.md - Parcel 244700: 18,975 m² (1.9 ha, 4.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/244700.md - Parcel 261322: 15,951 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261322.md - Parcel 243699: 12,661 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243699.md - Parcel 237856: 12,235 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237856.md - Parcel 254968: 12,228 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254968.md - Parcel 248850: 11,927 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248850.md - Parcel 258669: 11,753 m² (1.18 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258669.md - Parcel 4311451: 8,231 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4311451.md - Parcel 4561976: 7,449 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4561976.md - Parcel 2639543: 6,804 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2639543.md - Parcel 255198: 6,480 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255198.md - Parcel 227301: 6,201 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227301.md - Parcel 225259: 4,715 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225259.md - Parcel 239784: 4,422 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239784.md - Parcel 5665418: 3,997 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5665418.md - Parcel 4677316: 3,834 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4677316.md - Parcel 266410: 3,828 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266410.md - Parcel 231131: 3,165 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231131.md - Parcel 229307: 2,753 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229307.md - Parcel 265494: 2,737 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265494.md - Parcel 251652: 2,653 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251652.md - Parcel 4803430: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4803430.md - Parcel 260552: 2,065 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260552.md - Parcel 4560836: 1,985 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4560836.md - Parcel 261682: 1,895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261682.md - Parcel 263614: 1,495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263614.md - Parcel 257407: 1,276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/257407.md - Parcel 237411: 1,011 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/237411.md - Parcel 228111: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/228111.md - Parcel 232680: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/232680.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Sconce Upper 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. - 23 Oct 2025, Laois County Council 2560697: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain entrance, modular style dwelling, pumphouse and permission to upgrade septic tank and percolation system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560697/0 - 19 Feb 2020, Laois County Council 2089: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey dwelling house; a domestic garage; wastewater treatment unit and associated percolation area; alterations to the existing site entrance; and associated site development works above and below ground. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2089/0 - 10 Feb 2020, Laois County Council 2068: N/a. Permission. construct a single storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and associated percolation area, alterations to the existing site entrance and associated site development works above and below ground. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2068/0 - 25 Feb 2019, Laois County Council 19120: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19120/0 - 19 Oct 2017, Laois County Council 17560: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey style extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and all other associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17560/0 - 11 Oct 2017, Laois County Council 17544: N/a. Permission. construct a sincle storey style extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and all other associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17544/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412 - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sconce Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sconce Upper. ## 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sconce Upper. - 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/sconce-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/sconce-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/sconce-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Sconce Upper 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) - Ballyfin Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyfin-upper.md - Ballyhuppahane: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyhuppahane.md - Briscula: https://everytownland.com/laois/briscula.md - Brisha: https://everytownland.com/laois/brisha.md - Capard: https://everytownland.com/laois/capard.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/laois/deerpark-100483.md - Derrycon: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrycon.md - Sconce Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/sconce-lower.md - Shanavaur: https://everytownland.com/laois/shanavaur.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/sconce-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/sconce-upper