Roundwood

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roundwood, from 29 m² to 130,838 m² (13.08 ha, 32.33 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 Roundwood 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 Feb 2023Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, redesigned site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2351

• 21 Mar 2022Refused

  construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, redesign site entrance, waste water system and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22155

• 21 Feb 2022N/a

  construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, redesigned site entrance, waste water system and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2278

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  retain existing internal alterations and complete the conversion of roof space to habitable accommodation together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21186

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  add to and alter existing dwelling; relocate site access and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2143

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18212

• 29 May 2017Refused

  construct a part one and part two storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and associated percolation area, new site entrance and associated site development works above and below ground on a site at Roundwood, Mountrath, Co.Laois

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17262

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 Roundwood.

Recorded monuments

• LA011-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Described as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 75m NW0SE; 54m NE-SW) defined by a bank (max. H c. 1.5m) with evidence of an external fosse at N (OPW file). 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

• Roundwood House, country house, 1730–1750 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey over part basement house, c.1740, with pedimented breakfront. Interior with double-height hall having two cantilevered galleries. Stable complex to site.

• Roundwood House, stables, 1700–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stable complex, c.1750 and c.1800, comprising group of two-storey outbuildings with integral carriageways. Single-storey outbuilding, c.1670, to site.

• Roundwood House, barn, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay barn, c.1760.

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

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 low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roundwood.

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.

• Roundwood, Mountrath6 sales

Name

Roundwood · An Choill Chruinn

Area

922,460 m² (92.25 ha, 227.94 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Lacka, the unit of the census

Census 2022

309 people lived in 96 households in the Lacka electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Glenbower, Killinure, Paddock, Rossadown

Placenames

Roundwood 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.