Lawcus

122 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lawcus, from 5 m² to 234,223 m² (23.42 ha, 57.88 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 Lawcus 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.

• 24 Jul 2026Conditional

  of 1. existing extensions to the left and right side of dwelling house 2. attic conversion to dwelling house 3. detached garage and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660466

• 25 Nov 2025Refused

  for development consisting of a rear garden detached single storey living accommodation unit ancillary to the use of the house, a new vehicular entrance onto the L1023 Lawcus Road and associated site works to the dwelling house

  Outline permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560757

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  for alterations and construction of new single storey, two bedroom family flat extension to existing dwelling, plus all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560650

• 30 Jul 2025Refused

  to retain the new re-located vehicular entrance, with splayed wing walls and piers, to the applicants' property

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560483

• 23 Jul 2025N/a

  to retain the new vehicular entrance, with splayed wing walls and piers, to the applicants' property

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2560448

• 17 Jun 2025Conditional

  for a change of use of a disused wood storage room to fitness studio including internal alterations, external façade alterations and all associated site works. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structure (Protected Structure Ref: D69 Kilkenny County)

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560350

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  for a change of house design, with alteration to location of house and garage on the site, with all other works as per planning permission granted under planning application P21/394

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560341

• 11 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a new single storey extension to the north-west side of existing dwelling finished with stone cladding to the front, modify existing cladding around front entrance to match proposed stone cladding, new window to rear north-east elevation and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460432

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  is sought for 25sqm roof mounted photo-voltaic solar panels located partially on the main roof and partially on the rear single storey roof with associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21966

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage, with connection to mains sewerage and water, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21393

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage, with connection to mains sewerage and water, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21394

• 12 Mar 2021Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage / store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21166

• 9 Oct 2020Conditional

  to erect an extension to my existing dwelling house, namely additional kitchen / dining, living, utility and bathroom, including all necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20677

• 17 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a dormer bungalow, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19775

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  for an agricultural entrance onto the R713 with all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18853

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  for an extension to the side and rear of an existing dwelling and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18144

• 14 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct a one and a half storey dwelling with effluent treatment system / polishing filter, and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1899

• 5 Feb 2018N/a

  to construct a one and a half storey dwelling with effluent treatment system / polishing filter, and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1874

• 3 Oct 2017Refused

  for the erection of a small hydro power scheme (containing Archimedes screw type technology). The development consists of creating a new mill race, repairing the existing weir and constructing a new rock ramp beside Rockview Mill a Protected Structure No. D69 NIAH No.12316004 and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17651

• 12 Sept 2017Conditional

  for development for construction of a new two storey dwelling, roadside entrance, driveway site fencing, connection to public sewer and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17600

• 28 Jun 2017N/a

  Construction of a new two storey dwelling, roadside entrance, driveway, site fencing, connection to public sewer and all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17426

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
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• KK027-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m). On the 1948 revision of this map only the N of the bank/scarp and external fosse are indicated, with a field boundary indicating the enclosing element in the S sector. The fosse is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK056, 9 July 1969) with a large dark area in the interior and extending E and W across the fosse, which is possibly indicated former quarrying. On satellite imagery (Digitalglobe 2005-2012) the fosse of this oval enclosure (diam. c. 56m N-S; c. 50m E-W) is visible in the N and SE sectors. See attached: KK027-034----_01 aerial photograph CUCAP AYK056, 9 July 1969 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 April 2023

Architectural heritage

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1900, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast wall to front (west) elevation with rendered quoined piers to ends, and painted rendered walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, and replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

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 Lawcus, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lawcus.

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.

• Lawcus, Stoneyford5 sales

Name

Lawcus · Lácas

Area

1,031,206 m² (103.12 ha, 254.82 acres)

Civil parish

Ennisnag, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Ennisnag, the unit of the census

Census 2022

530 people lived in 184 households in the Ennisnag electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cotterellsbooly, Ennisnag, Kellsgrange, Rathduff (Bayley), Rathduff Lower, Rathduff Upper, Stonecarthy East

Placenames

Lawcus 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.