# Acantha, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Áth an Chiontaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 712,821 m² (71.28 ha, 176.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,697 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Durrow, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/durrow.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Durrow, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Durrow electoral division: 798 people in 254 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42030 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180001 - Centre: latitude 53.312182, longitude -7.489108 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acantha, from 349 m² to 496,649 m² (49.66 ha, 122.72 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 279756: 496,649 m² (49.66 ha, 122.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279756.md - Parcel 309633: 77,297 m² (7.73 ha, 19.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309633.md - Parcel 300304: 68,321 m² (6.83 ha, 16.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300304.md - Parcel 292001: 21,738 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292001.md - Parcel 299303: 7,752 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299303.md - Parcel 5173256: 5,988 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5173256.md - Parcel 294463: 4,803 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294463.md - Parcel 5410573: 3,944 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5410573.md - Parcel 5421474: 3,143 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5421474.md - Parcel 311240: 2,751 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311240.md - Parcel 310615: 2,642 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310615.md - Parcel 4790332: 2,270 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4790332.md - Parcel 308645: 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308645.md - Parcel 281688: 1,482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281688.md - Parcel 303433: 1,330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/303433.md - Parcel 301211: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301211.md - Parcel 298379: 1,020 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298379.md - Parcel 282353: 612 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282353.md - Parcel 360083: 478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/360083.md - Parcel 273276: 349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273276.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Acantha in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 27 Feb 2017, Offaly County Council 1777: N/a. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1777/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Acantha. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF009-021: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF009-021----. No surface remains visible of any earthwork/enclosure or any archaeological monument in the area marked on the OS 6-inch map. Described in 1977 as 'a fairly large quantity of earth, stones and boulders lying against the field bank here. This indicates that some land clearance and bulldozing has taken place here in fairly recent years. The surrounding area is fairly flat pasture. The area would have been suitable for a ringfort. However there is no definite indication that this was an archaeological monument' (ITA Survey 1942). Potential site pencilled in on 1838 ed. OS six inch map. Of doubtful antiquity. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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: 22 December 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Acantha. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Acantha. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/acantha.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/acantha.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/acantha.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Acantha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghancarnan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancarnan.md - Ardan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ardan.md - Balleek: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balleek.md - Ballynasrah or Tinnycross: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynasrah-or-tinnycross.md - Gormagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gormagh.md - Lug: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lug.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/acantha - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/acantha