Straboe

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straboe, from 40 m² to 166,814 m² (16.68 ha, 41.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Straboe 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 May 2026Refused

  construct a single storey house, garage and associated wastewater treatment system as appropriate

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2631

• 5 May 2026N/a

  Construct a single storey house, garage and associated wastewater treatment system as appropriate

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2628

• 21 Apr 2026N/a

  construct a single storey house and garage with associated site works, septic tank and soak area

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 2623

• 10 Mar 2026Conditional

  construct an agricultural entrance

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660129

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  1. retain position of existing site entrance as constructed. 2., retain site boundaries as constructed. together with all ancillary services

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560262

• 20 Jul 2021Conditional

  retain domestic garage and ground works as constructed; full planning permission to complete same and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21522

• 13 Jul 2021N/a

  retain domestic garage and ground works as constructed; full planning permission to complete same and associated site work

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21503

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  full planning permission to retain structure to rear of existing cottage structure, retain mobile home on site, permission to demolish existing cottage structure and construct extension to existing structure to be retained, de-commission existing septic tank and replace with waste water treatmnent system and polising filter , new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21269

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and entrance.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21118

• 25 Feb 2021N/a

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, secondary sewage treatment system and entrance.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21114

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  retain an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Plan Ref No. 11/191) together with associated ground equipment within a fences compound and access track

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21101

• 8 Mar 2019Conditional

  construct a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19136

• 10 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with polishing filter and new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18496

• 13 Dec 2017Conditional

  construct dwelling house, detached domestic garage/shed, wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17671

• 12 Jul 2017Conditional

  (a) demolish agricultural building to include straw bedded livestock housing, (b) construction of agricultural building to include cubicle livestock housing along with the extending of existing underground slatted slurry storage tank along with associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17367

• 10 Feb 2017N/a

  construct a cattle underpass under the pubic road and ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1775

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 Straboe.

Recorded monuments

• LA013-005001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground on the demesne lands of Shaen House with good views in all directions. Shaen Castle (LA008-013001-) is 1km to the NNE. The N and W walls of this multi-period church were rebuilt in the 19th century when the interior of the church was converted into the private burial place of the Kemmis family of Shaen House. The demesne wall around the church was built in 1810 by the Kemmis family and the W gabel of the church may have been rebuilt at this time. The medieval nave and chancel church is marked on the 1563 map of Leix and Offaly (Hore 1863, f.p. 345). The poor condition of this church was described in the early 1900s as consisting of only 'one ivy-capped gable [which] stands beside the public road, with a few fragments of side-walls' (O'Hanlon & O Leary 1907, 321). In the 1302-06 Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland, the church of 'Strobe' [Straboe] is valued at 3 marks (Cal. doc. Ire. vol. 5, 251). The medieval church originally consisted of a nave (int. dims. 7.2m E-W; 5.7m N-S; wall T 0.85m) and chancel (int. dims. 4.55m E-W; 5.15m N-S; wall T 0.64m) church, built of limestone, with a round-headed chancel arch (Wth 1.4m; Wall T 0.9m) of 17th century date, which appears to have replaced an earlier wider chancel arch (Wth 1.6m) of 15th / 16th century date. The chamfered and punch dressed cut stone voussoirs of this earlier chancel arch can be seen lying on the ground at the W end of the nave. The chancel arch was blocked up in the 19th century when a brick-vaulted crypt was inserted into the floor of the chancel. The chancel arch has been opened up during a recent graveyard clean up scheme. The chancel was lit by an unlgazed single light (Wth 0.18m) ogee-headed sandstone window set into a square-headed embrasure (Wth 1m) placed high in the centre of the E gable. A doorway was inserted into the centre of the N wall of the chancel in the 19th century when the brick vaulted crypt was inserted into the floor of the chancel. At this time the N wall of the nave and chancel was rebuilt and the chancel arch was blocked up turning the chancel into a private burial place of the Kemmis family. It is possible that the S wall of the chancel may have been also rebuilt or refaced during this period. There is no opening or any architectural feature in the S wall of the chancel. A rebuilt doorway (Wth 1m) of 19th century date is located at the W end of the N wall of the nave giving access to the interior of the church. There are no window openings in the rebuilt N and W walls of the nave. A square-headed unglazed twin light mullioned window of 17th century date is located at the E end of the S wall of the nave. The mullion of this window no longer survives and the chamfered limestone jambs have iron grill holes visible. This window was inserted in the first half of the 17th century and does not appear to be contemporaneous with the earlier ogee-headed sandstone window in the E wall. Memorials dating from the 18th and 19th century are located in the graveyard (LA013-005002-) to the S and E of the church. The line of the Portlaoise Water Supply Improvement pipeline was excavated by Thaddeus Breen under licence no. 96E313 along the side of the road opposite the church. Two pits were found, containing animal bone, charcoal and slag. Some brick was present in one pit, suggesting a late date. No trace of any enclosing ditch was found. 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 06 December 2010

• LA013-005002 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating countryside. Forestry to East. Majority of headstones are post 1700 AD. South of church numerous pieces of cut stone have been used as grave markers. Irregularly shaped graveyard (int. dims. 82m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by the demesne wall of Shaen House as indicated on current edition of the OS 6-inch map. On this map the graveyard is indicated as being enclosed by a polygonal shaped wall on the N, E and S sides. Today there is no enclosing element around the graveyard on these sides. The medieval nave and chancel church (LA013-005001-) is located in the centre of the graveyard with the W gable of the church forming the W section of graveyard boundary wall. On the 1838 edition of the OS six-inch map the church is shown located in the NW corner of a square-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 37m E-W x 38m N-S) on the demesne lands of Shaen House. The line of the Portlaoise Water Supply Improvement pipeline was excavated by Thaddeus Breen under licence no. 96E313 along the side of the road opposite the church. Two pits were found, containing animal bone, charcoal and slag. Some brick was present in one pit, suggesting a late date. No trace of any enclosing ditch was found. 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 06 December 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Straboe, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Straboe.

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

Name

Straboe · Srúbh Bó

Area

2,347,731 m² (234.77 ha, 580.14 acres)

Civil parish

Straboe, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Shaen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,001 people lived in 326 households in the Shaen electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrygarran, Eyne, Knocknagroagh, Rathnamanagh, Shaen

Placenames

Straboe 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.