Guileen

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Guileen, from 1,138 m² to 497,057 m² (49.71 ha, 122.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Guileen 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.

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  retain a shed which contains storage for garden furniture and a fuel storage area, also a pet kennel area and all associated and necessary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22536

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21448

• 20 May 2019Conditional

  construct an underslat effluent storage tank in existing shed, necessary refurbishment to same shed, proposed 2.4m high boundary wall, holding yard, cattle handling facility and hardcore yard for bale silage storage. Retention permission to retain concrete yard as laid and full planning to extend same and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19264

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 Guileen.

Recorded monuments

• LA019-011004 Field system
  Description

  A series of low banks, visible on aerial photographs (GSI,AP S 168-9), survive in a poor condition on the ground. Date unknown. 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

• LA019-011010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Field inspection carried out by Séamus Ó Murchú, Archaeologist, Forest Service, DAFM who described the site as following. Located in upland area with modern coniferous plantation immediately to N. Enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12, with relic field system (LA019-011004-) visible to S and W of enclosure. Outline of monument and enclosing fosse is clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Enclosing fosse clearly visible on Google earth orthoimage taken 08/03/2020. Relic field system (LA019-011004-) located to E, S and W of enclosure is clearly visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 20/11/2005. Present remains consist of a low circular-shaped platform (int. diam. c. 35m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW; H 0.8m) enclosed by a low bank only visible from E-S and reduced to a scarp elsewhere with an external fosse (max. Wth c. 6m; ext. D 0.2m) best preserved at SE. No entrance feature visible. See attached photo courtesy of Séamus Ó Murchú and Google earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Séamus Ó Murchú Date of upload: 7 September 2020

• LA019-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 60m NW-SE). 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 Guileen.

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 Guileen, about 1 in 5 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 Guileen.

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 Guileen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Guileen · An Gaibhlín

Area

1,385,989 m² (138.6 ha, 342.49 acres)

Civil parish

Tullomoy, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Luggacurren, the unit of the census

Census 2022

329 people lived in 111 households in the Luggacurren electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoolan, Clondoolagh, Clopook, Fallowbeg Lower, Guileen, Tullomoy

Placenames

Guileen 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.