# Springfield, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois; in Irish Gort an Fhuaráin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 872,151 m² (87.22 ha, 215.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,724 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonenagh and Clonagheen, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/clonenagh-and-clonagheen.md - Barony: Maryborough West - Electoral division: Ballyfin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 711 people lived in 225 households in the Ballyfin electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28321 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101047 - Centre: latitude 53.050984, longitude -7.394977 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springfield, from 1,335 m² to 263,628 m² (26.36 ha, 65.14 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 229345: 263,628 m² (26.36 ha, 65.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229345.md - Parcel 4990450: 68,332 m² (6.83 ha, 16.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4990450.md - Parcel 253396: 55,660 m² (5.57 ha, 13.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253396.md - Parcel 236562: 40,334 m² (4.03 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/236562.md - Parcel 237859: 40,157 m² (4.02 ha, 9.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237859.md - Parcel 261683: 37,922 m² (3.79 ha, 9.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261683.md - Parcel 233318: 35,915 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233318.md - Parcel 245583: 34,847 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245583.md - Parcel 261324: 29,314 m² (2.93 ha, 7.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261324.md - Parcel 248855: 29,276 m² (2.93 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248855.md - Parcel 263612: 27,967 m² (2.8 ha, 6.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263612.md - Parcel 264759: 24,718 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264759.md - Parcel 268098: 19,767 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268098.md - Parcel 246775: 17,275 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246775.md - Parcel 243701: 16,335 m² (1.63 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243701.md - Parcel 266566: 15,926 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266566.md - Parcel 225683: 14,204 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225683.md - Parcel 5559605: 9,071 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5559605.md - Parcel 229405: 8,982 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229405.md - Parcel 228003: 8,724 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228003.md - Parcel 4627023: 8,288 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4627023.md - Parcel 229195: 8,070 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229195.md - Parcel 240159: 7,611 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240159.md - Parcel 254974: 7,169 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254974.md - Parcel 225682: 4,511 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225682.md - Parcel 254429: 4,456 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254429.md - Parcel 262967: 4,056 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262967.md - Parcel 4689944: 3,662 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4689944.md - Parcel 240641: 3,419 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240641.md - Parcel 228303: 3,381 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228303.md - Parcel 4618710: 2,836 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618710.md - Parcel 4618715: 2,646 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618715.md - Parcel 230585: 2,331 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230585.md - Parcel 243792: 2,308 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243792.md - Parcel 228220: 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228220.md - Parcel 228304: 2,151 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228304.md - Parcel 231048: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/231048.md - Parcel 232682: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/232682.md - Parcel 240640: 1,335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/240640.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Springfield 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 23 Sept 2022, Laois County Council 22589: Conditional. Permission. construct a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/22589/0 - 30 Aug 2018, Laois County Council 18537: Conditional. Permission. Construct (a) an agricultural livestock shed with underground slatted slurry tanks. (b) construct an external underground slatted slurry tank and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18537/0 - 30 Jul 2018, Laois County Council 18457: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house, stables, septic tank treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18457/0 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 Springfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Springfield. ## 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 Springfield, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Springfield. - 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/springfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/springfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/springfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Springfield 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) - Ballylusk: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballylusk.md - Cappanrush: https://everytownland.com/laois/cappanrush.md - Iry: https://everytownland.com/laois/iry.md - Knocknakearn: https://everytownland.com/laois/knocknakearn.md - Ockanaroe: https://everytownland.com/laois/ockanaroe.md - Ross: https://everytownland.com/laois/ross-100994.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/springfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/springfield