Swan
Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Swan
- Area
- 39.6 ha
- 98 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,727 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Swan, from 86 m² to 74,129 m² (7.41 ha, 18.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Swan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jan 2026Unconditional
extend duration on Planning Ref. 20/215
Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 265
19 Feb 2024Conditional
change design of house and garage from that previously granted Planning File Reg. Numbers 2260034 and 2260053, and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460070
20 Dec 2022Conditional
construct a garage and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2260053
13 Dec 2022Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission ref no. 21822 for permission to construct a dwelling house, entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works at Newline Road, Durrow, Co. Laois.
Permission consequent, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2260034
29 Nov 2022N/a
construct a dwelling house, entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works (grant of outline permission ref no. 21822 )
Permission consequent · Laois County Council, 2260010
1 Dec 2021Conditional
for dwellinghouse, entrance, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21822
14 Jul 2021Refused
construct dwellinghouse, entrance, septic tank with percolation system and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21507
9 Jul 2021N/a
construct a two storey dwelling, new access, installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21494
7 Jul 2021N/a
construct a two storey dwelling, new access, installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 21486
20 May 2021Unconditional
Extension of duration on planning permission ref. 16/141
Extension of duration, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21344
17 Jun 2019Conditional
relocate and upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19346
31 May 2019Conditional
retain sunroom to the rear, change of use of domestic garage to part of house, amendments to elevations and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19314
21 Dec 2018Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18785
17 Jul 2018Conditional
retain extension to dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18428
27 Mar 2018Conditional
retain extension to dwelling house. The extension includes, front porch, also kitchen, utility and two bedrooms at rear of house
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18180
30 Jan 2018Conditional
retain the following (a) domestic garage, (b) changes to site boundaries, (c) changes to windows, (d) addition of gable to front elevation, (e) omission of stone from side elevation and addition of stone to front gable, (f) changes to roof windows and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1836
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Swan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Swan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Swan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Swan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Swan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Swan · Swan
- Area
- 396,231 m² (39.62 ha, 97.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Durrow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clarmallagh
- Electoral division
- Dunmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunmore electoral division: 284 people in 93 households; 90% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castleview, Course, Dunmore, Glebe, Loughnamuck, Moyne
- Placenames
- Swan 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.