Grange

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange, from 60 m² to 589,773 m² (58.98 ha, 145.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space/Amenity (Active open space)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential 2 (New/proposed residential)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Laois County Development Plan 2021–2027 including Ministerial Direction (as varied) by Variation No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, Laois · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  change of design on previously approved planning permission reg 22/205 to new designed Bungalow Type Dwelling & domestic garage with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with previously approved vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2660584

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  retain alterations to the previously approved development (Pl. Ref. 0089), including the construction of a conservatory to the side (south-east) elevation of the existing dwelling and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660582

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  retain the alterations to the previously approved development (Pl. Ref. 0089), including the construction of a conservatory to the side (south-east) elevation of the existing dwelling and all associated site development works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660575

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  retain 1 no. domestic garage and 2 no. outbuildings to the side and rear of existing dwelling, 1 no. car port to rear of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary work.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660560

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, garden room, septic tank & percolation area, new site entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660561

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  retain1 no. domestic garage and 2 no. outbuildings to the side and rear of existing dwelling, 1 no. car port to rear of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary work.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660558

• 18 Jun 2026Refused

  construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, garden room, septic tank & percolation area, new site entrance and all associated and necessary site works at Killeen, Maganey, Co Laois

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660385

• 16 Jun 2026N/a

  construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, garden room, septic tank & percolation area, new site entrance and all associated and necessary site works at Killeen, Maganey, Co Laois

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660373

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, garden room, septic tank & percolation area, new site entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660345

• 12 May 2026N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage and new splayed entrance. The proposed development will include connection to the existing wastewater treatment system installed under Planning Reference No. 20/515, together with water supply from the existing bored well approved under the same planning reference, and all associated site development works. An Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted on request of S177T(5)

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660267

• 20 Feb 2026N/a

  retain for 1no. mobile home & 1no. caravan being used as dwellings for a temporary period of 4 years. No.2 permission for the construction of dormer style dwelling, alterations to existing entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works (this application has included an Natura Impact Statement NIS report).

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660095

• 12 Sept 2025Refused

  construct 2 no. two bedroom semi-detached domestic dwellings and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560578

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  construct 2 no. two bedroom semi-detached domestic dwellings and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560575

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560360

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  construct bungalow, septic tank, percolation area, domestic garage, machinery lock-up shed, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 2460738

• 4 Dec 2024N/a

  Bungalow, septic tank, percolation area, domestic garage, machinery lock-up shed, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460732

• 3 Dec 2024N/a

  Bungalow, septic tank, percolation area, domestic garage, machinery lock-up shed, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460727

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  install an underground effluent storage tank (agricultural grade) and associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460570

• 20 Feb 2024Refused

  construct, 2 no. two and a half storey detached dwellings, connection to onsite services, boundary treatments off street parking and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460077

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  for essential maintenance and repair works to the Barrow Navigation, in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit, comprising the following: (i) Bank Revetment & Strengthening Works, (ii) Post-Flood Spot Dredging & Maintenance Dredging, (iii) Back-drain Maintenance, (iv) Small-scale Bank Repair Works, (v) Temporary mobile welfare units, and, (vi) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance and repair works referred to above. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted with the planning application. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of (i) Specialist Hydrological Review (HES Report) and Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) correspondence (ii) Addendum to Natura Impact Statement (NIS) (iii) Addendum to Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA) (iv) Water Framework Directive Compliance Report (including Hydrological Assessment) (v) Updated Fisheries and Crayfish Report (including updated surveys) (vi) Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) (vii) Architectural Heritage Impact Assessment (AIA) (viii) Underwater Archaeology Impact Assessment (UAIA) (ix) Updated Outline Construction Environmental Management Plan (OCEMP)

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460093

• 2 Feb 2024N/a

  construct, 2 no. two and a half storey detached dwellings, connection to onsite services, boundary treatments off street parking and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460045

• 11 Sept 2023Refused

  No.1 retain 1 no. mobile home & 1 no. caravan being used as dwellings for a temporary period of 3 years. No.2 construct a dormer style dwelling, alterations to existing entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works. This application will also include an NIS report.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360371

• 22 May 2023Refused

  No. 1 retain permission for 1no. mobile home & 1no. caravan being used as dwellings for a temporary period of 3 years. No.2 construct dormer style dwelling, alterations to existing entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360181

• 18 May 2023N/a

  No.1 retain 1no. mobile home & 1no. caravan being used as dwellings for a temporary period of 3 years. No.2 construct a dormer style dwelling, alterations to existing entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360176

• 28 Mar 2023Conditional

  alter and refurbish an existing single storey dwelling; a new two-storey dormer extension to rear/west; erection of detached garage and the provision of new boundary wall treatments and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360115

The 25 most recent of 41 applications.

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

• LA026-023 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating countryside, ring-ditch (LA026-024----) 100m to E. Cropmark of a concentric enclosure consisting of a circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 35m) defined by a ditch with outer enclosing element (approx. diam. 72m) defined by a ditch intersected at N by present field boundary visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP BDH056/058) taken 14/07/1970. Possible entrance gap visible at NNW, gap between enclosing ditches measures approx. 21m No visible surface remains. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 30 December 2019

• LA026-024 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating countryside, concentric enclosure (LA026-023----) 100m to W. Cropmark of ring-ditch (approx. diam. 6m) visible on oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP BDH056) taken 14/07/1970 and on Google earth aerial photograph taken 14/07/2018. No visible surface remains. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 30 December 2019

• LA026-038 Enclosure
  Description

  On west bank of River Barrow, SW of Maganey Bridge. Aerial photograph (GB89.R.10) shows cropmark of an incomplete sub-circular enclosure defined by a fosse.

• LA026-039 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.W.34) shows cropmark of a sub-circular enclosure defined by fosse, with entrance facing south-east. Faint traces of a second, inner fosse. Very close to LA026-023, but not identical location.

• LA026-047 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB91.DZ.27) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. The aerial photographs were taken on 15 July 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.EK.17) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Aerial photograph (GB91.DZ.27) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 19 October 2010 Updated: 16 February 2011 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 19 April 2012.

• LA026-048 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB91.EM.05) taken in 1991 shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing north-east. A second widely spaced fosse defines a larger, outer curvilinear enclosure (Dr. G. Barrett 1991). The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 05 December 2010 Date of upload: 19 April 2012

• LA032-008001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Built by Robert Hartpole who was appointed Constable of Carlow Castle and Governor of the Queen's County during the reign of Elizabeth I (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 290). A stone with the intitals RH and GB, carved in relief and dated 1588, was originally over the entrance doorway (Strickland 1922, 82-3). According to local information, the castle was destroyed twenty years ago. No visible surface remains survive. Described by Daniel O'Byrne 'Grange Castle, like that of Shrule, is of many years standing; and is said to have been built by a wife of one of the Hartpoles, who so much abhorred the curel acts of her husband, the she erected the castle and resided in it in order that she would not have any familiar communication with him' (O'Byrne 1856, 77). According to the History of the Queens County 'The town of Monksgrange, a castle and a mill in repair, are noticed on Sir William Petty's Maps' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1982, 290). Castle visited in 1782 by Austin Cooper and described as 'About 4 miles from carlow, on the Queen's County side of the Barrow, is Shrule, and ancient and beautifully situated seat of the hartpoles; it is a small, square modernized castle, with modern wings and additions. A little higher up the river is another small, square castle in ruins, called Grange, … over the door this inscription (LA032-008002-), which certainly implies its being built by the some of the above mentioned family' (Strickland 1922, 83). Grange or Monksgrange was originally part of the property of the Cistercian Abbey of Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, and Hartpole's Castle was probably built on the site of the "Grange" belonging to the Abbey. The castle, or tower, is now incoporated in a modern dwelling house (Strickland 1922, 83). Pre-development testing at the site of a proposed farmyard development was undertaken in January 1994 by Dominic Delany under excavation licence no. 94U0001. The site is located close to the west bank of the river Barrow and lies about 40m north-east of the site of Grange Castle. An 18th-century sketch of the castle indicates it was a typical late medieval tower house structure (Austin Cooper 1782). The ruins of the castle were incorporated into a large dwelling house in the second half of the 19th century. This house was destroyed by fire c. 1950 and its ruins were subsequently cleared away to be replaced by a modern dwelling house and farm buildings. A single trial trench (6m x 1m) was mechanically excavated along the line of the proposed development. Nothing of archaeological interest was noted. 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

• LA032-008002 Inscribed stone
  Description

  Originally located over the entrance doorway of Grange castle, Co. Laois (LA032-008001-) this stone was discovered in 1862 built into the wall of the churchyard at Monksgrange (LA032-009----). The stone (H 0.33m, W 0.3m) has the date 1588 at the top and the initials R.H. and g. b. (in lower case) carved below in relief. Between the R and H is a looped interlaced motif which has two links extended to wrap around a stem of each letter; undoubtedly, a symbolic love knot. The letters have been identified as belonging to Robert Hartpole and his wife, Grania O'Byrne. Robert Hartpole died in 1594, and was buried in St. Mary's parish church in Carlow. The datestone is in the possession of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (DU018-275----). (Strickland 1922, 82-3) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload; 2 October 2014

• LA032-009 Church
  Description

  In gently undulating countryside. Described as a large church surmounted by a square tower, although photographs dated c. 1906 show a featureless rectangular building without the tower (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 289-290). No surface evidence of church survives. Some uninscribed grave-markers visible in the surrounding graveyard (LA032-009001-). Described in the History of the Queen's County as 'Its church is shown as a large one on the Map of Leax and Ophaly, a short distance to the north of where the River Douglas falls into the River Barrow. It is called Graunge o managh or 'Farm of the Monks' on that map, and its church is shown surmounted by a square tower. The ruinous church of Grange, still to be seen, is near the castle (LA032-008001-) (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 289-290). 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

• LA032-009001 Graveyard
  Description

  In gently undulating countryside. Described as a large church (LA032-009-) surmounted by a square tower (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 289-290). No visible surface remains. Some uninscribed gravemarkers visible. Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 19m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church forms N boundary of graveyard wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA032-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photographs (GB89.W.32 & 33) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Possible ring-ditch located within the enclosure. The parallel fosses on GB89.W.32 are plough-levelled field boundaries.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Grange, 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_2456 (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 Grange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Grange · Gráinseach na Manach

Area

3,497,489 m² (349.75 ha, 864.25 acres)

Civil parish

Monksgrange, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Killabban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 157 households in the Killabban electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anneville, Ballyfoyle, Jerusalem (Co. Kildare), Killeen, Maganey Lower (Co. Kildare), Newtownpilsworth (Co. Kildare), Rappa

Placenames

Grange 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.