Clarahill

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clarahill, from 78 m² to 327,418 m² (32.74 ha, 80.91 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 Clarahill 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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  construct a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, site entrance, onsite wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660593

• 18 Dec 2018Conditional

  amend previously granted dwelling house under Planning Ref. 17/533, amendments to include reduction of first floor area and amendments to elevations and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18758

• 21 Nov 2018N/a

  consist of amendments to previously granted dwelling house under planning no. 17/533, amendments to include reduction of first floor area and amendments to elevations and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18703

• 2 Oct 2017Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17533

• 15 Aug 2017Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, and septic tank with percolation area utilising existing entrance to main road

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17438

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clarahill.

Architectural heritage

• Clarahill House, house, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single- and two-storey house, c. 1880, incorporating fabric of earlier house. Stable complex, c. 1840, to site incorporating dovecote.

• Clarahill House, gate lodge, 1880–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, c. 1890.

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 Clarahill, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1971 (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 Clarahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Clarahill · Clárchoill

Area

1,227,388 m² (122.74 ha, 303.29 acres)

Civil parish

Rearymore, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Tinnahinch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

175 people lived in 67 households in the Tinnahinch electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashbrook or Aghamore, Ballymacrory, Ballynalug, Bellair or Cappanapinion, Boyle, Glebe, Glebe, Graigueafulla, Rathcoffey, Srahcullen, Tinnahinch

Placenames

Clarahill 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.