Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Rathdowney

Planning applications inside the Rathdowney, Co. Laois settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
84
County
Laois

What the data shows

The planning register for Rathdowney contains eighty-four total applications, with twelve lodged in 2023, ten in 2024, and four in 2025. Since 2016, the area has a one hundred percent grant rate, with fifty-four applications granted, zero refused, and zero part-granted out of fifty-four applications. The most common development types are retention at twenty-seven percent, change of use at nineteen percent, extension at seventeen percent, and commercial at seven percent. Recent decided examples that were granted include constructing a new dwelling, erecting an eighteen meter monopole telecommunications support structure, extending a commercial unit, constructing a five bay warehouse, a two storey extension, and retaining a change of use.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

100%

of 54 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
54
No decision recorded
30

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Retention
27%
Change of use
19%
Extension
17%
Commercial
7%
New dwelling
6%
Infrastructure
6%

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Rathdowney

Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.