Dairyhill

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dairyhill, from 656 m² to 332,400 m² (33.24 ha, 82.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Dairyhill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Dairyhill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Dairyhill.

Recorded monuments

• LA023-030 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map only. A subcircular area (dims. c. 79m E-W; c. 58m N-S) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.9m). No evidence of fosse or original entrance. Possibly a tree plantation. 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

• LA023-031 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. Cropmark of enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 73-4). 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

• LA029-005001 Church
  Description

  Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 57) refers to a church site and graveyard, within which were numerouse uninscribed headstones, enclosed by a large earthen bank. Not marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and no surface remains of a church or graveyard survive. The enclosing bank is visible from NNW-E. The S half is partky levelled and is indicated by a slight rise in ground level. Described by Carrigan as 'The church of Dairy Hill has entirely disappeared. The churchyard of Dairy Hill is about an Irish acre in area, and is enclosed by a great earthen fence. It is now all overgrown with bushes. The graveyard was last used for the interment of an adult about 1820; it is now only used as a burial place for unbpatized children' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 56-7). 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

• LA029-005002 Graveyard
  Description

  Marked on the 1840 and 1907 eds OS 6-inch map. Reference to it by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 56-7). Situated on a low ridge. No grave markers visible. Described by Carrigan as 'The church of Dairy Hill has entirely disappeared. The churchyard of Dairy Hill is about an Irish acre in area, and is enclosed by a great earthen fence. It is now all overgrown with bushes. The graveyard was last used for the interment of an adult about 1820; it is now only used as a burial place for unbpatized children' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 56-7). 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

• LA029-005003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  A circular area defined by a low bank (W. c. 2.8m, Int. H. c. 0.5m, Ext. H. c. 0.5m) from NNW-E. Elsewhere it is indicated by a slight rise in the ground level. No evidence of fosse. Described by Carrigan as 'The church (LA029-005001-) of Dairy Hill has entirely disappeared. The churchyard (LA029-005002-) of Dairy Hill is about an Irish acre in area, and is enclosed by a great earthen fence. It is now all overgrown with bushes. The graveyard was last used for the interment of an adult about 1820; it is now only used as a burial place for unbpatized children' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 56-7). 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

• LA029-076 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular cropmark (diam. c. 11m) visible on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dairyhill, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dairyhill · Doire an Chnocáin

Area

1,683,997 m² (168.4 ha, 416.12 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Cuffsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 119 households in the Cuffsborough electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycolla, Ballygeehin Lower, Cruell, Cuffsborough, Fearagh, Kilminfoyle, Legaun, Springfield or Knockkyle

Placenames

Dairyhill 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.