Turfarney

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turfarney, from 1,795 m² to 421,421 m² (42.14 ha, 104.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Turfarney 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.

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  Amend the existing cottage elevations, erect extension to side of cottage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560189

• 3 Apr 2025N/a

  amend the existing cottage elevations, erect extension to side of cottage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560174

• 20 Jun 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation, new splayed entrance and associated site work at Knockfin, Rathdowney, Co.Laois

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17318

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 Turfarney.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-066 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 40m NW-SE). In undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-067 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 55m NW-SE). In undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-014 Moated site
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a subrectangular enclosure (max. dims. c. 60m NE-SW, 40m E-W). Situated in undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. 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. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1946 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Turfarney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Turfarney · Tor Fearna

Area

1,033,379 m² (103.34 ha, 255.35 acres)

Civil parish

Coolkerry, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Kilnaseer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnaseer electoral division: 325 people in 112 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunoge, Coolkerry, Graigueanossy, Knockfin, Srah

Placenames

Turfarney 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.