Butterisland
Butterisland is a townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Oileán an Ime.
Parcel 4601754
- Area
- 13,011 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 466 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Butterisland
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 72.3 ha
- 179 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 10,832 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Butterisland, from 163 m² to 276,728 m² (27.67 ha, 68.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Butterisland 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Feb 2017Conditional
partially demolish a single storey dwelling house, construction of two storey extension and renovation to existing dwelling; upgrade existing septic tank with a new percolation area, erect new site boundaries and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1784
1 Feb 2017N/a
re-design from a single storey to a two storey, together with proposed extension to the North West elevation. Permission is also sought to upgrade existing septic tank with a new percolation area, erect new site boundaries, together with all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 1745
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Special Area of Conservation: Knockacoller Bog SAC 002333
- Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockacoller Bog 000419
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Butterisland.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Butterisland.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Butterisland.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Butterisland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Butterisland · Oileán an Ime
- Area
- 722,709 m² (72.27 ha, 178.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 835 people lived in 287 households in the Castletown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolnagour, Derryduff, Knockacoller, Knockbrack, Rush Hall, Shangownagh
- Placenames
- Butterisland 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.