Pilgrimhill

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pilgrimhill, from 445 m² to 75,290 m² (7.53 ha, 18.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  Extension & renovation of existing dwelling

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 2655

• 23 Oct 2023Conditional

  retain a single storey extension to front of the existing dwelling, retention of modification to bay window, new single storey extension to rear of property, internal renovations and associated siteworks.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2360445

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing sheds and construction of single storey extension to north and south sides of existing dwelling, with addition of 2 storey balcony/bedroom to the East elevation, raising/adjustment of existing roof line, demolition of chimneys, adjustments to all elevations with the additional of cladding and window re-alignment/additions, new single storey porch to front east side and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21246

• 10 Jul 2020Conditional

  construct a split level , single storey house, new entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20343

• 10 Mar 2020Conditional

  construct and agricultural shed, dungsted and concrete yard together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20128

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, new bored well and new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19651

• 22 Nov 2019N/a

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, new bored well and new site entrance

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19643

• 7 Jun 2019N/a

  construct an agricultural shed, dungsted, concrete yard, cattle crush and livestock handling facilities, together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19324

• 27 May 2019N/a

  construct an agricultural shed, dungsted, concrete yard, cattle crush and livestock handling facilities, together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19297

• 20 Jul 2018Conditional

  construct an extension to the rear, a front porch and alter the side elevations of the existing dwellinghouse, together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18439

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  retain a domestic garage, the location of the dwelling house onsite, the construction of the existing entrance and the elevations of the dwelling house along with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17704

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 Pilgrimhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pilgrimhill.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Pilgrimhill, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2005 (ZIP).

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

Name

Pilgrimhill · Cnoc na nOilithreach

Area

163,533 m² (16.35 ha, 40.41 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

835 people lived in 287 households in the Castletown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cookesfield, Elderfield, Gash

Placenames

Pilgrimhill 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.