Butterisland

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Butterisland, from 163 m² to 276,728 m² (27.67 ha, 68.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Butterisland 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.

• 16 Feb 2017Conditional

  partially demolish a single storey dwelling house, construction of two storey extension and renovation to existing dwelling; upgrade existing septic tank with a new percolation area, erect new site boundaries and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1784

• 1 Feb 2017N/a

  re-design from a single storey to a two storey, together with proposed extension to the North West elevation. Permission is also sought to upgrade existing septic tank with a new percolation area, erect new site boundaries, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1745

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
• Special Area of Conservation: Knockacoller Bog SAC 002333
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockacoller Bog 000419

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Butterisland.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Butterisland.

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

Name

Butterisland · Oileán an Ime

Area

722,709 m² (72.27 ha, 178.59 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnagour, Derryduff, Knockacoller, Knockbrack, Rush Hall, Shangownagh

Placenames

Butterisland 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.