Hollymount

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hollymount, from 20 m² to 525,654 m² (52.57 ha, 129.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Hollymount 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 Mar 2025Conditional

  carry out development which will consist of modifications and extensions to the existing dwelling house, including: (A) Alterations to the existing internal layout, (B) Demolition of a single-storey section, (C) Construction of Single-storey extensions to the rear and side of the existing dwelling (D) Installation of a new soakaway for surface water and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560119

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  retain fence erected to front and side of the property and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460695

• 3 Jul 2024Conditional

  demolish existing detached garage, construction of a new detached garage, construction of a single storey extension to side of existing house, storm water soakaways, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460395

• 22 Mar 2022Conditional

  construct a slatted shed and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22162

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a two -storey extension to the rear elevation of my existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2269

• 3 Sept 2021Conditional

  construct a proposed single storey extension to side of existing bungalow ,extended kitchen/dining area, proposed conversion of detached garage to habitable space (for use as study/home office), revisions to internal layout of bungalow and facades and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21619

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21366

• 22 Nov 2019Conditional

  construct a two-storey dormer-style dwelling house, detached garage, new road entrance and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a bored well, waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19645

• 16 Jan 2019Conditional

  retain a domestic garage as constructed, retention planning permission is sought to retain domestic entrance, driveway, front boundary fence and hedgerow, all ancillary site works and services as constructed and full planning permission is sought for the completion of landscaping to front boundary as granted under PL Ref:06/1019, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1918

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 Hollymount.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hollymount.

Architectural heritage

• Hollymount House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Georgian house, c. 1800, with full-height bow to rear. Extended to right comprising two-bay two-storey range. Four-bay two-storey stable block.

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 Hollymount, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2457 (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 Hollymount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Hollymount · Baile Uí Chuilinn

Area

1,731,348 m² (173.13 ha, 427.83 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Shrule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

316 people lived in 104 households in the Shrule electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anneville, Bohernasear, Cappanaboe, Clonagh, Killenny, Knockbeg, Rappa, Rathduff, Shrule

Placenames

Hollymount 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.