The Showgrounds, Rathdowney
Co. Laois: the land, its zoning and planning, and every recorded sale since 2010
Parcel 2444530
- Area
- 326 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 60 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 Residential 1 - Existing Residential (LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027) The objective
- Townland
- Rathdowney
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Land parcels
- 85
- median 302 m²
- Median price
- €215,000
- 5 market sales since 2021
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential 1 - Existing Residential, 75 of 85 parcels
- Planning
- 6
- applications within 15 m of the street since 2010
Estimate About €264,000 for a second-hand house here at 2026 prices; one sale in two between €230,000 and €301,000. Refine the estimate
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, within 15 m of the street
85 parcels, from 24 m² to 6,619 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), median 302 m².
Line of the street: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Zoning
Development plan, within 15 m of the street
- R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois The zoning objective in the plan
75 parcels of this street - M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois The zoning objective in the plan
2 parcels of this street - G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois The zoning objective in the plan
1 parcel of this street
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0. A parcel counts in the zone its centre falls in.
Planning applications
Sites within 15 m of the street, newest first
4 Sept 2026N/a
construct a new roofed spectator stand to the north of the grounds including all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660616
11 Nov 2024Conditional
o construct a 5 bay warehouse/storage shed and concrete apron to connect to existing yard and all associated and necessary works at his business premises, Main Street, Rathdowney, Co Laois.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460685
8 Nov 2024N/a
construct a 5 bay warehouse/storage shed and concrete apron to connect to existing yard and all associated and necessary works at his business premises, Main Street, Rathdowney, Co Laois.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460676
14 Nov 2023Conditional
1. Amend the northern site boundary from previously granted application ref: 22/265, 2.Construct a new masonry wall to the north of the grounds, 3.Construct a new storage shed and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360484
25 Sept 2023N/a
Construct a new masonry wall to the north of the grounds, including all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360395
23 Sept 2023N/a
Construct a new masonry wall to the north of the grounds, including all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360392
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Median price by year
Years with three market sales or more
| Year | Median price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | €165,000 | 3 |
Every recorded sale
15 sales, newest first
| Date | Address, as recorded | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2025 | 28 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS R32HH95 | €215,000 |
| 6 Dec 2024 | 18 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS R32F970 | €225,000 |
| 22 Feb 2024 | 22 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS R32WY81 | €208,000 |
| 6 Apr 2023 | 41 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS R32YA99 | €255,000 |
| 22 Dec 2021 | 34 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS R32V215 | €167,000 |
| 21 Jul 2021 | 4 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, CO. LAOIS R32FX94 (not full market price) | €60,000 |
| 16 Sept 2020 | 2 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, CO. LAOIS (not full market price) | €48,000 |
| 17 Feb 2020 | 39 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS | €189,000 |
| 12 Sept 2019 | 11 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS | €165,000 |
| 16 Aug 2019 | 3 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, CO. LAOIS (not full market price) | €120,000 |
| 29 Apr 2019 | 27 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS | €135,000 |
| 28 Jan 2019 | 1 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS | €180,000 |
| 1 May 2018 | 12 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, CO. LAOIS (not full market price) | €69,000 |
| 8 Sept 2017 | 19 THE SHOWGROUNDS, RATHDOWNEY, LAOIS (not full market price) | €127,500 |
| 27 Apr 2010 | 11 The Showgrounds, Rathdowney (not full market price) | €62,356 |
Source: Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority. Sales marked “not full market price” are left out of every median.