Cuffsborough

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuffsborough, from 140 m² to 193,058 m² (19.31 ha, 47.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Cuffsborough 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 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct: A. New Contemporary Style 3-bedroom Dormer Style House, with attached carport to be constructed in two phases. The first phase is for all ground floor accommodation and phase two is to develop the first floor dormer interior and stairs. B. Garage for Domestic use only. C. New Vehicular Entrance D. Septic Tank and Percolation Area E. All other associated site works.

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 2460608

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  construct A. New Contemporary Style 3-bedroom Dormer Style House, with attached carport to be constructed in two phases. The first phase is for all ground floor accommodation and phase two is to develop the first floor dormer interior and stairs. B. Garage for Domestic use only. C. New Vehicular Entrance D. Septic Tank and Percolation Area E. All other associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460563

• 20 Sept 2024N/a

  A.Construct New Contemporary Style 3-bedroom Dormer Style House, with attached carport to be constructed in two phases. The first phase is for all ground floor accommodation and phase two is to develop the first floor dormer interior and stairs. B. Garage for Domestic use only. C. New Vehicular Entrance D. Septic Tank and Percolation Area E. All other associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460547

• 13 Dec 2018Conditional

  extend an existing garage and to change its use to a family flat

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18744

• 8 Feb 2018Conditional

  (a) extend existing cattle shed to include new slatted tank; (b) machinery shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 1857

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 Cuffsborough.

Recorded monuments

• LA028-015001 Church
  Description

  Reference to the foundations of a church (dims. c. 15.24m x 9.14m) and a community of men dependent on Aghaboe (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 58). No visible surface remains survive. Reference to a church here when it was described as 'Ecclesia de Balygeuenan' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 371). 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

• LA028-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. No graveyard area indicated on current edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

• LA028-015003 Enclosure
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 or 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. In undulating countryside. Remains of an earthen bank (H c. 0.2m) fvisible rom NE-SE. 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

• LA028-124 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular cropmark (diam. c. 20m) visible on Google Earth Pro (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 April 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuffsborough.

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 Cuffsborough, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cuffsborough · Baile Uí Ghamhdáin Mór

Area

2,008,723 m² (200.87 ha, 496.37 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Cuffsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 119 households in the Cuffsborough electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygowdan, Ballyhinode, Boherard, Coolbally, Dairyhill, Kilminfoyle, Leap, Springfield or Knockkyle, Tooreagh

Placenames

Cuffsborough 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.