Orchard Upper
Orchard Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Fossy or Timahoe, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An tAbhallort Uachtarach.
Parcel 230124
- Area
- 51,101 m² (5.11 ha, 12.63 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Orchard Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
17 Sept 2020Conditional
construct single-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20470
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 36.9 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 40,054 m² (4.01 ha, 9.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Orchard Upper, from 4,240 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres) to 127,247 m² (12.72 ha, 31.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Orchard Upper 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
9 Dec 2020Conditional
alter house design and change site boundaries from those granted under permission file no. 20/470 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20651
30 Nov 2020N/a
alter house design and change site boundaries from those granted permission under file no. 20/470 and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 20625
17 Sept 2020Conditional
construct single-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, packaged wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20470
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 Orchard Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Orchard Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Orchard Upper.
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 Orchard Upper, 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 Orchard Upper.
- 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 Orchard Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Orchard Upper · An tAbhallort Uachtarach
- Area
- 369,304 m² (36.93 ha, 91.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fossy or Timahoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cullenagh
- Electoral division
- Fossy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 183 people lived in 59 households in the Fossy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clashboy, Fallowbeg Lower, Fallowbeg Upper, Fossy Upper, Orchard Lower
- Placenames
- Orchard Upper 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.