Inch

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inch, from 157 m² to 502,673 m² (50.27 ha, 124.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Inch 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  retain a sunroom onto the existing dwelling house granted planning ref. no. 181/85, also planning permission to alter site boundaries and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660638

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  alter site boundaries from that granted permission Ref. no. 18/466 and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560334

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  alter the site boundaries from that granted permission Ref. no. 06/2202 and retention permission for outbuildings and all associated and necessary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560327

• 28 May 2025N/a

  alter the site boundaries from that granted permission Ref. no. 18/466 and all associated and necessary site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560323

• 20 Oct 2023Conditional

  retain change of use of attached fuel shed to residential including replacing flat roof with pitched roof and replacing garage door with a window and retain front porch to house and planning permission to enlarge site and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23262

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  retain (i) The change of use of existing agricultural shed and out buildings to a hospitality facility, The Sir Hurt Barn. Full planning to renovate and upgrade same barn, (ii) Permission to demolish one outbuilding. (iii) Full planning permission to construct guest accommodation to include necessary facilities, (iv) Full planning permission for car park, lighting, waste water treatment system and associated site works at Inch, Stradbally, Co Laois. The site is within the curtilage of a protected structure – RPS 605 Inch House. An N.I.S. has been received for this application.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360295

• 27 Jul 2023N/a

  (i) The change of use of existing agricultural shed and out buildings to a hospitality facility, The Sir Hurt Barn. Full planning to renovate and upgrade same barn, (ii) Permission to demolish one outbuilding. (iii) Full planning permission to construct guest accommodation to include necessary facilities, (iv) Full planning permission for car park, lighting, waste water treatment system and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2360291

• 26 Jul 2023N/a

  (i) change use of existing agricultural shed and out buildings to a hospitality facility, The Sir Hurt Barn. Full planning to renovate and upgrade same barn, (ii) Permission to demolish one outbuilding. (iii) Full planning permission to construct guest accommodation to include necessary facilities, (iv) Full planning permission for car park, lighting, waste water treatment system and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2360283

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  demolish existing dwelling house and portions of outbuildings, also decommission existing septic tank and construct a new single storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, renovate outbuildings to a domestic garage, close existing entrance and open new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22491

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  demolish rear kitchen and construct new extension to existing dwelling, alter existing roof and retention for portacabin on site

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22135

• 10 Mar 2022N/a

  demolish existing rear kitchen to existing dwelling, alter existing roof and all associated works and retain portacabin on site

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22130

• 1 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage & fuel storage shed, packaged wastewater treatment system, sand polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18466

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Inch.

Architectural heritage

• Inch House, house, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, c. 1830. Extended, c. 1985, comprising two-storey range. Stable complex to site.

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 Inch, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Inch · An Inse

Area

1,609,158 m² (160.92 ha, 397.63 acres)

Civil parish

Curraclone, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Curraclone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

269 people lived in 85 households in the Curraclone electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymanus, Ballyrider, Correel, Curraclone, Garrans, Mill Land, Monaferrick

Placenames

Inch 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.