Tinnakill

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tinnakill, from 93 m² to 701,560 m² (70.16 ha, 173.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Tinnakill 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.

• 21 Oct 2025N/a

  retain current site boundary (red line) as setout on-site, in comparison to the site boundary (purple dotted) granted under the original application P.01/134 to include relocated dwelling position, site entrance, septic tank, percolation area, retention of increased size of dwelling and all associated siteworks.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560684

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  Construct a new dwelling house, septic tank with percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560663

• 10 Oct 2025N/a

  Retain the current site boundary (red line) as setout on-site, in comparison to the site boundary (purple dotted) granted under the original application P.01/134 to include relocated dwelling position, site entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560646

• 5 Sept 2025N/a

  Retain the current site boundary (red line) as setout on-site, in comparison to the site boundary (purple dotted) granted under the original application P.01/134 to include dwelling position and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560562

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  erect (a) Meal Storage Bin (b) Milk Storage Tank and associated site works at Tinnakill, Portarlington, Co. Laois.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460620

• 10 Oct 2024N/a

  erect (a) Meal Storage Bin (b) Milk Storage Tank and associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460600

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  construct an A-Roof shed (agricultural building) to include underslatted tank. Permission for Slurry lagoon and associated site works at

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460336

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  construct a calf shed, effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20530

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  change of use from current use as Stables to proposed use as ancillary home study and games room adjacent to main dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19304

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  amend previously granted planning permission no. 17/55 to include additional floor area and amendments to elevations

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18107

• 22 Feb 2018N/a

  amend previously granted planning permission no. 17/55 to include additional floor area and amendments to elevations

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1897

• 3 Feb 2017Conditional

  construct new cubicle shed and silage pit and all associated site works at existing farm yard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1755

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 Area of Conservation: Mountmellick SAC 002141

Recorded monuments

• LA008-001001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated in flat countryside on slightly elevated site. A four-storey high tower house (max. dims 10m NE-SW, 11.80m NW-SE, wall T 2.35m) built of roughly coursed limestone. Punch-dressed limestone blocks with finely dressed margins used as quoins and in windows and doorway indicating a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century date. There is a groin vault over second-floor level, other floors were of wood. Garderobes in NE angle, mural passage in SW wall, mural stairs in SW and SE walls. Sheela-na-gig (LA008-001002-) said to have come from here (JKAS 1904, Vol. IV, 205-15; JKAS 1920, Vol. IX, 262-3). 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

• LA008-001002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Two grotesque female figures were to be seen in 1918 in the farmyard wall to SSW of Tinnakill Castle (LA008-001001-). Present owner of the castle and farmyard stated in 1990 that they were broken up by person or persons unknown and buried. One was said to have come from a window jamb of Tinnakill Castle (LA008-001001-) the other from somewhere in Portnahinch (LA004-004002-) (Anon 1920, 262). H. Roe has taken photos of them and they can be seen in the Laois County Library, in Portlaoise. According to a website on sheela-na-gigs, Two sheela-na-gigs (LA004-004002-; LA008-001002-) were built into the coping of the gate entrance wall. One was part of the jamb of a window of the 16th century Castle, the other came from Portnahinch. Moved from this site to a house in the Dangans (Mrs. Fennelly) where they suffered a misfortune with a truck. Both it and the Portnahinch figure were broken as a result and were later used as building material. Nothing to be seen now. (http://www.irelands-sheelanagigs.org/archive/index-42071.php.html accessed 23 May 2012). Freitag recorded that the sheela-na-gig was rescued from the castle ruins (LA008-001001-) and re-erected in garden wall of private house together with the Sheela from Tinnakill (LA008-001002-). Due to an accident both figures were knocked down and later re-used as building material (according to Mrs Fennelly, owner of house). All attempts to find missing figures have failed’ (Freitag 2004, 145). 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 23 May 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tinnakill.

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 Tinnakill, 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_2163 (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 Tinnakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Tinnakill · Tigh na Coille

Area

3,234,225 m² (323.42 ha, 799.19 acres)

Civil parish

Ardea, and its townlands

Barony

Portnahinch

Electoral division

Dangans, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,524 people lived in 461 households in the Dangans electoral division. 53% of households owned their home. 64% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycrossal, Barranaghs (Co. Offaly), Clonterry, Coolnavarnoge and Coolaghy, Dangans, Garryhinch (Co. Offaly), Portnahinch

Placenames

Tinnakill 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.