Kilfeacle

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilfeacle, from 124 m² to 217,418 m² (21.74 ha, 53.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Kilfeacle 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 Apr 2019Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19210

• 18 Jun 2018Conditional

  retain a detached single storey storage shed (207.38m2), hardstand area and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18356

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling with mezzanine level, garage, new waste water treatment system, bored well, retention for existing entrance, associated walls and pillard and all site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17685

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 Kilfeacle.

Recorded monuments

• LA025-032 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In wet marshy land. A shallow pool of water marks the site. A subcircular area (D 0.5m, Wth 0.8m N-S x 1m E-W) enclosed by a modern stone wall at N, E and S with slab to knee on at entrance at W. According to local information it was thought that the water from it could heal only sight ailments. 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

• LA025-033001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A subcircular area (max. diam. c. 70m N-S) defined by a low bank, except at ESE and S where it is defined by a scarp, and an external fosse (Wth c. 4.3m, int. H c. 1m). No evidence of original entrance. A burial (LA025-033002-) may have been found here. 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

• LA025-033002 Burial
  Description

  While ploughing over an 'old moat' ringfort (LA025-033001-), a number of flat stones, set on edge, were found c. 0.3m below the ground surface. Two larger stones which may have been cover-stones were also found; one was inscribed with a Maltese cross (LA025-033003-), the other at E end of the grave was found to cover portions of a human skull. The stone-lined grave suggests that the burial was late medieval (JRSAI 1932, 119-20). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-033003 Cross-slab
  Description

  Reference to a broken slab, inscribed with a circle within four segments of circles formed a rough Maltese cross; found in a stone-lined grave (LA025-033002-) (JRSAI 1932, 119-20). 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

• LA025-069 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland, holy well (LA025-032----) 195m to ENE, ringfort (LA025-033001-) and cross-slab (LA025-033003-) 160m to S. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) visible on Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 January 2022

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of reinforced concrete railway bridges over road, c. 1917, with sandstone abutments to one bridge and concrete abutments to other bridge. One of first standard gauge railways laid in Ireland. Opened Sept. 1918, closed 1929.

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 Kilfeacle, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Kilfeacle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Kilfeacle · Cill Fhiacla

Area

933,390 m² (93.34 ha, 230.65 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Rathaspick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

287 people lived in 96 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamafir, Ballylehane Lower, Ballylehane Upper, Kellystown, Mullaghmore, Shanragh, Wolfhill

Placenames

Kilfeacle 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.