Erris or Skirk Glebe

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Erris or Skirk Glebe, from 334 m² to 203,708 m² (20.37 ha, 50.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Erris or Skirk Glebe 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.

• 17 Oct 2022Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area, detached garage, road entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22648

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 Erris or Skirk Glebe.

Recorded monuments

• LA021-011 Building
  Description

  Marked Glebe Ho. (in Ruins) on first edition of the OS 6-inch map. Probably nineteenth century in date. No visible surface remains of the glebe house. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Erris or Skirk Glebe.

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 Erris or Skirk Glebe, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Erris or Skirk Glebe.

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 Erris or Skirk Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Erris or Skirk Glebe · Iorras nó Gléib Scadhairce

Area

428,968 m² (42.9 ha, 106 acres)

Civil parish

Skirk, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Moneenalassa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

149 people lived in 52 households in the Moneenalassa electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlequarter, Clonagooden, Curraghmore, Newtown or Skirk

Placenames

Erris or Skirk Glebe 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.