Turra
Turra is a townland in the civil parish of Killabban, barony of Slievemargy, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Teamhair.
- Area
- 284.2 ha
- 702 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 8,166 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turra, from 161 m² to 428,401 m² (42.84 ha, 105.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Turra 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
19 Jul 2026N/a
construct a two storey dwelling house with a single storey element, domestic garage, a proprietary wastewater treatment system & soil polishing filter, new site entrance & all associated & necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660490
16 Jul 2026N/a
construct a two storey dwelling house with a single storey element, domestic garage, a proprietary wastewater treatment system & soil polishing filter, new site entrance & all associated & necessary site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660484
26 Jul 2023Conditional
construct a Dwelling House, Garage, Borewell, Domestic Waste Water Treatment System(DWWTS), entrance, ancillary services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360288
18 Jul 2022Conditional
demolish an existing derelict dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22440
13 Jul 2022N/a
demolish an existing derelict dwelling house
Permission · Laois County Council, 22427
3 Jun 2022N/a
demolish an existing derelict dwelling house
Permission · Laois County Council, 22345
23 Dec 2020Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling, single storey garage, bored well, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20711
13 Oct 2020Conditional
permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance. Permission to demolish the existing shed to facilitate the above development and associated site work
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20524
7 Aug 2020Conditional
new dwelling house with garage, treatment system with polishing filter, new ell, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20405
4 Aug 2020Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling, single storey garage, bored well, waste water treatment system & percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20394
30 Dec 2019Conditional
permit a new glamping development, consisting of 6 no. self contained glamping pods, plus reception pod, effluent treatment system & percolation area with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19736
19 Dec 2019N/a
construct a new glamping development, effluent treatment system & percolation area with all ancillary site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 19729
27 Oct 2017Conditional
make revisions to that previously granted under Planning Ref. 16/619 consisting of (a) alterations to house design, (b) revised site area, (c) vehicular entrance, re-located due to revised site width, (d) revised position of house and domestic garage, (e) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17578
7 Jun 2017Conditional
construct two single storey extensions to dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17295
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 Turra.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Turra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Turra.
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 Turra, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Turra.
- 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 Turra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Turra · Teamhair
- Area
- 2,842,473 m² (284.25 ha, 702.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killabban, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievemargy
- Electoral division
- Turra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 392 people lived in 130 households in the Turra electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Turra 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.