Southfield

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Southfield, from 310 m² to 332,871 m² (33.29 ha, 82.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Southfield 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  retain extensions to dwelling as constructed and planning to construct an extension to the front and rear of same dwelling, necessary renovations to same house and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560841

• 9 Dec 2025N/a

  retain extensions to dwelling as constructed. Full planning to construct an extension to the front and rear of same dwelling, necessary renovations to same house and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560830

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  retain modified and extended agricultural shed and full planning permission to construct a block wall to the northern boundary of the shed, also to install a 3000 litre effluent tank beside the concrete apron and associated site works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460457

• 12 Jul 2022Conditional

  retain (i) agricultural shed as constructed; (ii) stables as constructed and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 22421

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 Southfield.

Recorded monuments

• LA019-076 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.CM.23) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure or ring-ditch; a larger cropmark enclosure (LA019-077) is located immediately to the north-west. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The enclosure borders the field boundary on its eastern side. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 01 February 2010 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 August 2010

• LA019-077 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.CM.23) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses and with a small curvilinear annexe to the south-east; a smaller cropmark enclosure (LA019-076) or ring-ditch is located immediately to the south-east. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 01 February 2010 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Southfield.

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 Southfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Southfield · Southfield

Area

875,413 m² (87.54 ha, 216.32 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyadams, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Ballyadams, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyadams electoral division: 437 people in 135 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintubbert, Monascreeban, Rathmore

Placenames

Southfield 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.