Reary More

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reary More, from 184 m² to 377,478 m² (37.75 ha, 93.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Reary More 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.

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  erect a new two storey dwelling with connection to a new septic tank and percolation area with and erect a new separate domestic garage, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21652

• 11 Oct 2017Conditional

  change the roof profile from the permitted flat roof arrangement to a pitched roof arrangement for a previous approved side extension (under Reg. Ref. 2643) and the construction of two additional single storey rear extensions constructed at the existing detached dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17546

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

Recorded monuments

• LA003-003001 Church
  Description

  Only W gable and N wall survive of this featurelss rubble limestone-built church (dims. 20.3m E-W, 8.6m N-S). Three Early Christian cross-slabs (LA003-003003/004/005-) formerly located against NW angle of church have been moved to Rosenallis RC church (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 307; O'Flanagan, M (ed) 1933, 204). 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

• LA003-003002 Graveyard
  Description

  Featureless remains of rubble-built medieval church (LA003-003001-) with only N and W walls standing forming N boundary of large subrectangular graveyard (int. dims. 69m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by a 19th century sandstone wall (H 1.5m; Wall T 0.5m) (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 307; O'Flanagan, M (ed) 1933, 204). Headstones date mainly from 18th and 19th centuries. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA003-003003 Cross-slab
  Description

  One of three rectangular shaped slabs with incised and false relief geometrical designs but no obvious crosses except for a possible small tan in the centre of one, situated in NW angle of church (LA003-003001-). (JKAS 1938, 109). Now in the sacristy of the R.C. church in Rosenallis (LA003-025/001/002-). Described as slab 1 by Leask in 1938 as a 'Slab 2 ft. by 6 ins. By 1 ft. 4 ins. The designs are a double zig-zag broder on longsides; snake pattern at top, three-fold concentric circle; triple median line; lozenges to left of same zig-zag to right, and two single border lines' (Leask 1938, 109). (LA003-025) 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

• LA003-003004 Cross-slab
  Description

  One of three rectangular shaped slabs with incised and false relief geometrical designs but no obvious crosses except for a possible small tau in the centre of one, situated in NW angle of church (No. 3:3/01). (JKAS 1938, 109). Now in the sacristy of the R.C. church in Rosenallis (LA003-025). Described by Leask as slab number 2 and consisting of 'A slab more elaborate then number 1, not figured, with a Greek T (Tau) in centre' (Leask 1938, 109) (LA003-025001-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA003-003005 Cross-slab
  Description

  One of three rectangular shaped slabs with incised and false relief geometrical designs but no obvious crosses except for a possible small Greek tau in the centre of one, situated in NW angle of church (No. 3:3/01). (JKAS 1938, 109). Now in the sacristy of the R.C. church in Rosenallis (LA003-025001-, 002-). Described by Leask as slab number 3 and describes it as a doubtful slab but it is decorated (Leask 1938, 109). (LA003-025002-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA003-003006 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Land grant in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for James I in 1623 records the following land grant to Giles Rawlins under the plantation of Queens County the lands of Reary More and states that he should 'hold in free and common soccage; all ancient glebes, rectories and vicarages excepted; with power to make tenures; to enjoy all waifs and strays; to have free warren and all tithes great and small; bound to build a mansion house, with a bawn 200 feet in circuit or to forfeit 300 l (pounds). Subject to the conditions of the Plantation of Queens county as an undertaker.' (Cal. Pat. Rolls. James I, p. 540, entry no. I). Located 65m to the SW of the church and graveyard of Rearymore (LA003-003001-) there is a two storey 8 bay house with a two storey porch off centre to N. The house is E facing and is orientated on a N-S axis. It is a multiperiod building which has been extended to the E by the addition of three bays. Originally the house appears to have been a single pile 5 bay two storey gable ended house with two storey Jacobean style porch in centre of E façade. There is datestone or marriage stone over the doorway of the porch which reads 'July the 1st 1771 M..M'. This porch or datestone may have been added when the house to commemorate the house extension in the 18th century. According to the current house owner the original S gable chimney stack protruded externally beyond the S gable. Only recently has this wall been re-plastered and the external chimney stack has been rendered over making it a flush face of the room that's was extended to the S of the chimney stack. The original two storey house may be the seventeenth century hosue referred to in the above land grant to Giles Rawlins in 1623. On the top of the porch there is medieval twin light limestone window spandrel which was probably removed from the nearby church (LA003-003001-) at Rearymore. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA003-004001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The people of this parish used annually to assemble on the 12th December at St. Finian's Well, to celebrate the festival of their patron saint. The well consists of three apertures in the solid rock, and these are always full of water. It is surmounted by old hawthorns, and these are preserved by the people with great veneration. In the beginning of the last century, it was customary for pilgrims to go round the well on their bare knees, by way of penance and mortification (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 307). Old oak tree marks site of well that was filled in years ago. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA003-004002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Rock outcrop with bullaun-type holes probably of natural origin. No evidence of a well which was filled in years ago (JKAS 1938, 109). 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 Reary More.

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 Reary More, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1999 (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 Reary More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Reary More · Raoire Mór

Area

2,374,998 m² (237.5 ha, 586.87 acres)

Civil parish

Rearymore, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Rearymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 103 households in the Rearymore electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Afoley, Graigueafulla, Knockanowl, Rathcoffey, Rearyvalley or Clonygark

Placenames

Reary More 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.