Wolfhill

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wolfhill, from 120 m² to 221,442 m² (22.14 ha, 54.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Wolfhill 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.

• 19 Feb 2026Conditional

  retain the domestic use garage and roadside boundary wall / entrance as constructed with all ancillary works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660092

• 21 Dec 2025N/a

  retain domestic use garage and roadside boundary wall / entrance as constructed with all ancillary works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560882

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  sought to retain the domestic use garage and roadside boundary wall / entrance as constructed with all ancillary works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560867

• 5 Sept 2023Conditional

  (1) Construct a single-storey dwelling (with internal split-level); (2) install septic tank and integrated constructed wetlands (3) construct single-storey multi-purpose outbuilding comprising of domestic storage / gym and 4 no. horse stables with covered dung stead; (4) grassed horse training area and grass paddocks and (5) landscaping, upgrading of existing entrance, fencing and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360354

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  the replacement of an existing telecommunications support structure (overall height of 27.8m), with a proposed new 30m lattice tower (overall structure height of 32.8m) on a 1m high raised foundation, carrying the telecommunications equipment transferred from the existing structure and the addition of a new telecommunications antennas, dishes and associated equipment, together with new ground level equipment cabinets and fencing

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21912

• 12 Feb 2021Conditional

  new dwelling house and garage, a new site entrance, a new wastewater treatment system with polishing filters and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2182

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  construct a dwelling house set into the site single storey over basement, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17717

• 17 Nov 2017N/a

  construct a dwelling house set into the site single storey over basement, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17613

• 14 Aug 2017Unconditional

  extend time on Planning Permission 12/44

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 17436

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 Wolfhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Wolfhill.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Wolfhill, about 1 in 20 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 Wolfhill.

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.

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

Name

Wolfhill · Cnocán na Mac Tíre

Area

628,384 m² (62.84 ha, 155.28 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Rathaspick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

287 people lived in 96 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylehane Upper, Crissard, Kellystown, Kilfeacle, Kylenabehy, Slatt Lower

Placenames

Wolfhill 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.