# Skeagh, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Sceach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,268,455 m² (126.85 ha, 313.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,270 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghaboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghaboe.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Kildellig, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 297 people lived in 96 households in the Kildellig electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 43% 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/28035 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101039 - Centre: latitude 52.92868, longitude -7.502916 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skeagh, from 156 m² to 270,879 m² (27.09 ha, 66.94 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 246649: 270,879 m² (27.09 ha, 66.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246649.md - Parcel 226815: 98,458 m² (9.85 ha, 24.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226815.md - Parcel 259170: 80,179 m² (8.02 ha, 19.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259170.md - Parcel 245685: 77,377 m² (7.74 ha, 19.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245685.md - Parcel 226136: 69,069 m² (6.91 ha, 17.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226136.md - Parcel 245557: 67,541 m² (6.75 ha, 16.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245557.md - Parcel 228242: 53,525 m² (5.35 ha, 13.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228242.md - Parcel 268343: 48,201 m² (4.82 ha, 11.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268343.md - Parcel 265964: 46,216 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265964.md - Parcel 227131: 45,948 m² (4.59 ha, 11.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227131.md - Parcel 248558: 44,089 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248558.md - Parcel 264943: 40,544 m² (4.05 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264943.md - Parcel 260518: 38,270 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260518.md - Parcel 259920: 37,634 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259920.md - Parcel 260633: 35,843 m² (3.58 ha, 8.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260633.md - Parcel 263435: 33,747 m² (3.37 ha, 8.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263435.md - Parcel 268470: 31,798 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268470.md - Parcel 235587: 29,915 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235587.md - Parcel 234036: 28,541 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234036.md - Parcel 257766: 26,486 m² (2.65 ha, 6.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257766.md - Parcel 232337: 24,958 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232337.md - Parcel 257821: 22,660 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257821.md - Parcel 257433: 16,420 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257433.md - Parcel 265960: 4,230 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265960.md - Parcel 263108: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263108.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Skeagh 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) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Dec 2023, Laois County Council 2360551: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. Proposed outline planning application for a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360551/0 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 Skeagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA022-019018: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA022-019018-. Cropmark of oval enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 150-1). No visible surface remains. 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 - LA022-019019: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA022-019019-. A subrectangular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 150-1). No visible surface remains. 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 - LA022-019020: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA022-019020-. A subcircular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 150-1). No visible surface remains. 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 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 Skeagh. ## 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 Skeagh, 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 Skeagh. - 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/skeagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/skeagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/skeagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Skeagh 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) - Aghaboe: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghaboe.md - Cross: https://everytownland.com/laois/cross.md - Cuddagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/cuddagh.md - Gortnagroagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/gortnagroagh.md - Knockamullin: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockamullin.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/skeagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/skeagh