Lowran

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowran, from 22 m² to 644,460 m² (64.45 ha, 159.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Lowran 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.

• 12 Dec 2025N/a

  Construction of a new standalone warehouse Extensions to two existing industrial buildings Retention of existing building Installation of a new wastewater treatment system, pumping station and polishing filter New totem signage to north site entrance off R434 All ancillary site works necessary to complete the development. including hard surfacing, internal road works, parking, Silos, landscaping, boundary treatments and drainage works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560845

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  Construct a new standalone warehouse, Extensions to two existing industrial buildings Retention of existing building, Installation of a new wastewater treatment system, pumping station and polishing filter, New totem signage to north site entrance off R434, All ancillary site works necessary to complete the development. including hard surfacing, internal road works, parking, Silos, landscaping, boundary treatments and drainage works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560813

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  Construct a new industrial building and associated silo, Retention of existing industrial buildings 01, 02A, 02B and 03, retaining walls, and hardstanding. Proposed surface water drainage and attenuation system And all associated site works including new and upgraded hard surfacing, boundary improvements and landscaping

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560814

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the side and front of, internal plan modifications and alterations to the front elevation of the existing single storey dwelling, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560270

• 25 Mar 2025N/a

  construct a single storey extension to the side and front of, internal plan modifications and alterations to the front elevation of the existing single storey dwelling, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560154

• 7 Sept 2021Refused

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation system & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21624

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  construct a slatted cubicle shed including underground slurry storage and all associated ancillary facilities, works and services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2036

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 Lowran.

Recorded monuments

• LA022-008 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating countryside. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 27.6m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth c. 3.7m, int. H c. 0.7m, ext. H c. 0.9m). No evidence of fosse or original entrance. 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 Lowran.

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 Lowran, 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 Lowran.

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

Name

Lowran · An Lóthrán

Area

2,230,383 m² (223.04 ha, 551.14 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

Baunbrack, Carrowreagh, Corrigeen, Derrinoliver, Keelough Glebe, Kilbeg, Mannin, Peafield, Rush Hall

Placenames

Lowran 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.