Trumra
Trumra is a townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Tromráth.
- Area
- 585 ha
- 1,446 acres
- Land parcels
- 282
- registered freehold, median 4,053 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
282 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trumra, from 12 m² to 268,429 m² (26.84 ha, 66.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Trumra 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
12 May 2026Conditional
Outline Planning Permission for two dwelling houses, entrances, septic tanks with percolation areas and all associated site works
Outline permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2660268
29 Jan 2026Conditional
install a 30-metre-high lattice telecommunications support structure accommodating antennas, dishes, remote radio units (RRUs), lightning finial and all associated equipment; ground-based equipment cabinets within a compound enclosed by 2.4 metre high palisade fencing with a 1.0 metre wide access gate; a 3-metre-wide access gate within the existing fence; construction of a new access track connecting compound to the existing access track; concrete foundation and all associated site development works to provide for high-speed wireless data and broadband services.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660041
5 Jan 2026Conditional
construct a new bungalow dwelling, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area with all ancillary site works. Retention permission is sought for the mobile home on site for a period of 2 yrs
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660002
23 Dec 2025N/a
Construct a new bungalow dwelling, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area with all ancillary site works. Retention permission is sought for the mobile home on site for a period of 2 yrs
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560893
20 Dec 2025Conditional
retain a portion of the existing community centre for change of use as a gymnasium together with all ancillary services
Retention · Laois County Council, 2560881
18 Sept 2025Conditional
demolish existing sheds, the demolition of elements of the existing dwelling, the provision of a new single storey extension to the existing dwelling and the dwelling’s associated internal and external alterations, the provision of a new private water well and the provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560595
14 Aug 2025Conditional
construct a new dwelling, septic tanks system and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2564
16 Apr 2024Conditional
construct a new agricultural machinery storage shed
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460196
3 Mar 2023Conditional
demolish existing bedrooms building and to construct new bedrooms building and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360072
25 Oct 2022Conditional
construct two dwellinghouses, entrances, garages, septic tanks and percolation areas and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22664
16 Mar 2022Conditional
construct new shed / garage / store
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22152
17 Feb 2022Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank with treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2272
17 Sept 2021Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank treatment system, bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21649
3 Jun 2021Conditional
construct new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21407
3 Feb 2021Conditional
retain a domestic garage / store and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2150
22 May 2020Conditional
change of house type to a proposed single storey dwelling house in relation to Planning File Ref. No. 18665. new garage, and to include all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20246
10 Dec 2019Conditional
construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage, packaged waste water treatment system and percolation area together with site entrance, modifications to existing boundary wall to improve sightlines, ancillary sight services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19682
12 Jul 2019Conditional
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19397
10 Dec 2018Conditional
retain the new roadside entrance and revised road site boundary, hard standing area, access road and extension to existing farm building with all ancillary site works
Retention · Laois County Council, 18734
9 Nov 2018Conditional
construct a new single storey school, new entrance gate and drop off area, on site car parking, playing pitch, on site treatment system and percolation area, boundary walls and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18681
2 Nov 2018Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling, the installation of a septic tank, percolation area and site entrance and the permanent removal of polythene tunnels on section of land to which the site refers and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18665
24 Oct 2018N/a
construct a single storey dwelling, the installation of a septic tank, percolation area and site entrance and the permanent removal of polythene tunnels on section of land to which the site refers and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18642
25 Jun 2018Conditional
retain a development on this site, the development consists the provision of a calf rearing shed and store, underground storage tank, concrete apron and all ancillary siteworks
Retention · Laois County Council, 18374
21 May 2018N/a
retain a development on this site, the development consists the provision of a calf rearing shed and store, underground storage tank, concrete apron and all ancillary siteworks.
Retention · Laois County Council, 18304
19 Sept 2017Conditional
demolish existing lean-to garage and renovate existing single storey dwelling house to include new dormer extension, front porch entrance and extension to rear/north and side/east elevation of existing dwelling house and construct a new garage to east side of proposed extension and include all associted site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17506
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
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 Trumra.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Trumra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Trumra.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Trumra, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2057 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Trumra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Trumra · Tromráth
- Area
- 5,849,768 m² (584.98 ha, 1,445.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- Trumra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 284 people lived in 90 households in the Trumra electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh South, Clonadacasey, Clonard or Cappaloughlin, Cloncourse, Clonenagh, Derraugh, Derry Beg, Derry More, Fatharnagh, Gorteen, Mountrath, Rosskelton, Tarbert
- Placenames
- Trumra 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.