Clonard or Cappaloughlin

222 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonard or Cappaloughlin, from 11 m² to 520,322 m² (52.03 ha, 128.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 57 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 Clonard or Cappaloughlin 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.

• 17 Jun 2026Conditional

  alter site boundary, house, garage and septic tank locations from previously granted permission 2660048 and also to widen single storey section of granted house by 1 metre

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660382

• 16 Jun 2026N/a

  alter site boundary, house, garage and septic tank locations from previously granted permission 2660048 and also to widen single storey section of granted house by 1 metre

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660374

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, bored well, septic tank and percolation area,new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660048

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  a timber frame dwelling house with secondary sewage treatment system and polishing filter, narrow bore well and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560

• 26 Jul 2024Conditional

  carry out the following development - Retention permission & Planning permission to A.) Retaining already demolished stable and flat roof section, B. Permission to renovate existing building and add a rear/side extension C.) Elevational changes D.) To demolish part of existing rear single story area E.) Conversion of bar area into residential area and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460445

• 23 Jul 2024N/a

  Retain already demolished stable and flat roof section, B. Permission to renovate existing building and add a rear/side extension C.) Elevational changes D.) To demolish part of existing rear single story area E.) Conversion of bar area into residential area and all associated site works at our site located at the kilbricken, Co. Laois

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460434

• 22 Jul 2024N/a

  carry out the following development A.) Retain already demolished stable and flat roof section, B. Permission to renovate existing building and add a rear/side extension C.) Elevational changes D.) To demolish part of existing rear single story area E.) Conversion of bar area into residential area and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460430

• 29 May 2024N/a

  (A) renovate existing building and add a rear/side extension; (B) elevational changes; (C) demolish part of rear structure; (D) change of use from commercial building to residential and (E) retain already demolished works and alterations and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2475

• 13 May 2024N/a

  A. Renovate existing building and add a rear/side extension; B. elevational changes; C. demolish part of rear structure; D. change of use from commercial building to residential and E. retain already demolished works and alterations all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2464

• 17 Jan 2024N/a

  a. renovate existing building and add a rear/side extension; b. elevational changes; c. demolish part of rear structure; d. change of use from commercial building to residential and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2411

• 13 Dec 2023N/a

  a. renovate existing building and add rear/side extension; b. elevational changes and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23287

• 4 Sept 2023N/a

  A.) renovate existing building and add rear / side extension B.) elevational changes and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23247

• 8 Dec 2022Conditional

  renovate and reroof dwelling house structure, construct two storey extension and secondary sewage treatment system with soil polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22744

• 1 Mar 2022Conditional

  construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a septic tank and percolation area, proposed bored well, construct a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2291

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19546

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  retain existing garage/storage shed as constructed and all associated and ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19340

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Forest House Wood 000874

Recorded monuments

• LA017-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Possible circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 161-2). Remains of low bank (Wth c. 2.5m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 0.7m) survive from NW-NE. No other 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

• Kilbricken Bridge, bridge, 1780–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-arch road bridge over river Nore, c. 1800, with triangular cut-waters.

• Mounthrath and Castletown Railway Station, railway station, 1845–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey railway station, c. 1850, with five-bay single-storey wing to left having gabled projecting porches. Now derelict.

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 Clonard or Cappaloughlin, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2031 (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.

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

Name

Clonard or Cappaloughlin · Ceapach Laichnín nó Cluain Ard

Area

6,451,903 m² (645.19 ha, 1,594.3 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyleix, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Donore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

486 people lived in 157 households in the Donore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycleary, Boston or Coolballyogan, Clonbane, Clonrud, Coole, Derry More, Forest, Gash, Kilbrickan, Mountrath, Parkavilla, Tarbert, Trumra

Placenames

Clonard or Cappaloughlin 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.