Doon

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doon, from 150 m² to 183,829 m² (18.38 ha, 45.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Doon 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.

• 28 Jul 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SLATTED UNIT, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560459

• 4 Mar 2024Conditional

  Construct slatted unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460106

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  construct a 2 storey dwelling, septic tank / treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21151

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19148

• 10 Sept 2018Conditional

  construct a 6 span cattle shed, slatted unit , slurry tank, concrete apron and yard, silage pit and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18552

• 6 Sept 2018N/a

  construct a 6 span cattle shed, slatted unit , slurry tank, concrete apron and yard, silage pit and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18548

• 9 Jan 2018Conditional

  (a) retain substantial demolition of agricultural shed; (b) shed as constructed; (c) columns, concrete apron and water tank and (d) PERMISSION to complete extension to shed with new slurry tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 187

• 17 Nov 2017N/a

  (a) retain substantial demolition of agricultural shed; (b) shed as constructed; (c) columns, concrete apron and water tank and (d) PERMISSION to complete extension to shed with new slurry tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 17614

• 14 Sept 2017N/a

  (a) retain substantial demolition of agricultural shed and (b) permission to retain and complete refurbishment and extension of same shed to include concrete apron, water tank, and new slurry tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 17500

• 8 Sept 2017N/a

  (a) retain substantial demolition of agricultural shed and (b) permission to retain and complete refurbishment and extension of same shed to include concrete apron, water tank, and new slurry tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 17490

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  retain unauthorized development and non-compliance with conditions of previous Pl ref 01/687. To retain additions to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, alterations to the existing dwelling house, a domestic garage and fuel shed, an agricultural cattle shed with a slatted tank and concrete yard, concrete walls as constructed and all associated site works. Also full PLANNING PERMISSION to complete the agricultural cattle shed and concrete yard and the erection of a gate, a new velux roof light to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 17189

• 18 Apr 2017N/a

  retain additions to the side and rear of existing dwelling house alterations to the existing dwelling house, a domestic garage and fuel shed, an agricultural cattle shed with a slatted tank and concrete yard, concrete walls as constructed and all associated site works. Also full PLANNING PERMISSION to complete the agricultural cattle shed and concrete yard and the erection of a gate, a new velux roof light to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 17182

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 Doon.

Recorded monuments

• LA022-012 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a subcircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 50m NE-SW) cut by road at S and NW. On a ridge. 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 Doon.

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 Doon, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doon · An Dún

Area

1,274,697 m² (127.47 ha, 314.98 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Borris-In-Ossory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,012 people lived in 381 households in the Borris-In-Ossory electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrinsallagh, Derryvorrigan, Grange Beg, Moanfad, Shanboe, Townparks

Placenames

Doon 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.