Cardtown

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cardtown, from 69 m² to 595,513 m² (59.55 ha, 147.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cardtown 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.

• 13 Jul 2026N/a

  Renovate and extend existing dwelling house, including internal alterations and changes to external elevations, new septic tank and percolation area, new domestic garage, new site entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660473

• 10 Jul 2026N/a

  renovate and extend existing dwelling house, including internal alterations and changes to external elevations, new septic tank and percolation area, new domestic garage, new site entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660469

• 1 Nov 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560717

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560645

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. A NIS has been received on this application on request of a Section 177 T (5).

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560376

• 25 Jun 2025N/a

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560371

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21506

• 12 Nov 2019Conditional

  retain the existing storage shed (Shed No.1) and also permission to demolish an existing storage shed (Shed No.2) along with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19619

• 29 Oct 2019N/a

  retain the existing storage shed (Shed No. 1) and also to demolish an existing storage shed (Shed No. 2) along with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19594

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  demolish an existing house extension and domestic shed, thereafter permission is sought to construct a new extension to the existing dwelling house. Permission is also sought to alter the existing boundaries , along with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19334

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• LA011-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps, a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 50m E-W). 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

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

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

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cardtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Cardtown · Baile an Chearda

Area

2,162,330 m² (216.23 ha, 534.32 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Cardtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cardtown electoral division: 169 people in 55 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glennaglass, Gorteenameale, Johnsborough, Killeen, Knockannagad, Monasop, Northgrove

Placenames

Cardtown 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.