# Ard, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Geashill, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly; in Irish An tArd. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,284,231 m² (328.42 ha, 811.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,257 m² (1.83 ha, 4.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Geashill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/geashill.md - Barony: Philipstown Upper - Electoral division: Clonygowan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clonygowan electoral division: 727 people in 233 households; 90% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% 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/42003 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180031 - Centre: latitude 53.213274, longitude -7.342404 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ard, from 137 m² to 355,447 m² (35.54 ha, 87.83 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4711299: 355,447 m² (35.54 ha, 87.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4711299.md - Parcel 296685: 267,170 m² (26.72 ha, 66.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296685.md - Parcel 289118: 202,005 m² (20.2 ha, 49.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289118.md - Parcel 289119: 171,105 m² (17.11 ha, 42.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289119.md - Parcel 271098: 115,470 m² (11.55 ha, 28.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271098.md - Parcel 295299: 112,441 m² (11.24 ha, 27.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295299.md - Parcel 312887: 97,442 m² (9.74 ha, 24.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312887.md - Parcel 302302: 93,230 m² (9.32 ha, 23.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302302.md - Parcel 273507: 90,351 m² (9.04 ha, 22.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273507.md - Parcel 293719: 79,967 m² (8 ha, 19.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293719.md - Parcel 301006: 79,253 m² (7.93 ha, 19.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301006.md - Parcel 276919: 75,041 m² (7.5 ha, 18.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276919.md - Parcel 295790: 70,225 m² (7.02 ha, 17.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295790.md - Parcel 272610: 67,255 m² (6.73 ha, 16.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272610.md - Parcel 288664: 59,155 m² (5.92 ha, 14.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288664.md - Parcel 296165: 57,471 m² (5.75 ha, 14.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296165.md - Parcel 296310: 53,076 m² (5.31 ha, 13.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296310.md - Parcel 294410: 38,759 m² (3.88 ha, 9.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294410.md - Parcel 4543042: 38,095 m² (3.81 ha, 9.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4543042.md - Parcel 276911: 37,377 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276911.md - Parcel 310273: 36,674 m² (3.67 ha, 9.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310273.md - Parcel 290865: 30,649 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290865.md - Parcel 276906: 28,582 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276906.md - Parcel 307110: 27,563 m² (2.76 ha, 6.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307110.md - Parcel 2388353: 27,340 m² (2.73 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388353.md - Parcel 310680: 26,070 m² (2.61 ha, 6.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310680.md - Parcel 275444: 25,256 m² (2.53 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275444.md - Parcel 301334: 23,324 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301334.md - Parcel 312068: 23,147 m² (2.31 ha, 5.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312068.md - Parcel 310472: 23,031 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310472.md - Parcel 288542: 22,589 m² (2.26 ha, 5.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288542.md - Parcel 298022: 22,129 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298022.md - Parcel 277335: 19,836 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277335.md - Parcel 276054: 19,373 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276054.md - Parcel 277956: 18,922 m² (1.89 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277956.md - Parcel 297435: 18,561 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297435.md - Parcel 272492: 18,337 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272492.md - Parcel 310471: 18,177 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310471.md - Parcel 312357: 17,244 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312357.md - Parcel 305554: 15,524 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305554.md - Parcel 312948: 15,465 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312948.md - Parcel 310468: 14,059 m² (1.41 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310468.md - Parcel 310470: 14,006 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310470.md - Parcel 269568: 13,431 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269568.md - Parcel 305556: 11,312 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305556.md - Parcel 361106: 10,053 m² (1.01 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361106.md - Parcel 271742: 8,847 m² (0.88 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271742.md - Parcel 293725: 8,788 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293725.md - Parcel 269160: 6,725 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269160.md - Parcel 276341: 6,682 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276341.md - Parcel 293722: 6,399 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293722.md - Parcel 276179: 6,099 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276179.md - Parcel 4632458: 4,969 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632458.md - Parcel 278354: 4,706 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278354.md - Parcel 270296: 4,518 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270296.md - Parcel 272981: 4,508 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272981.md - Parcel 2388352: 4,400 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388352.md - Parcel 2481695: 4,328 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481695.md - Parcel 279703: 4,317 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279703.md - Parcel 271317: 4,253 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271317.md - Parcel 310933: 4,190 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310933.md - Parcel 295675: 3,895 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295675.md - Parcel 4844415: 3,509 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4844415.md - Parcel 296016: 3,324 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296016.md - Parcel 287008: 2,980 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287008.md - Parcel 272980: 2,750 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272980.md - Parcel 5793652: 2,283 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5793652.md - Parcel 286799: 2,003 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286799.md - Parcel 287891: 1,608 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287891.md - Parcel 5056395: 1,584 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5056395.md - Parcel 275750: 1,342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/275750.md - Parcel 4722365: 1,057 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4722365.md - Parcel 5793655: 1,033 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5793655.md - Parcel 287007: 137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287007.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ard 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 28 Jan 2021, Offaly County Council 2127: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A 36 METER LATTICE MOBILE AND BROADBAND TOWER WITH HEADFRAME CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND CABINETS ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND WITH ACCESS TRACK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2127/0 - 15 Jan 2021, Offaly County Council 2112: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A 36 METER LATTICE MOBILE AND BROADBAND TOWER WITH HEADFRAME CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND CABINETS ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND WITH ACCESS TRACK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2112/0 - 9 Feb 2018, Offaly County Council 1856: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO REAR OF PROPERTY & REPLACE WITH A PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND TO INCLUDE RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1856/0 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 Ard. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ard. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Geashill Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 14926001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14926001. Detached Tudor style L-plan two-storey former railway station, station master's house and ticket office, built c.1856, with recessed entrance porch to front elevation and single-storey gable-fronted bays to north-west. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, limestone chimneystacks and coping and decorative fleur-de-lis saddlestones to gabled elevations. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone walls. Chamfered limestone window surrounds with pointed-arched and square-headed window openings with timber sash windows. Pointed-arched door opening to station master's house with chamfered limestone surround with hoodmoulding. Accessed up limestone steps. - Geashill Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 14926002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14926002. Detached three-bay warehouse, built c.1856. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with extended eaves supported on limestone corbels to front and rear elevations acting as hoods to the loading bays. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared-limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Three square-headed load-bay openings to front and rear elevations with yellow brick relieving arches and timber sliding doors. Pair of square-headed window openings to side elevations with yellow brick reveals, limestone sills and timber sash widows. - Geashill Railway Station, worker's house, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 14926003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14926003. Detached three-bay single-storey former worker's house, built c.1856, with gabled entrance porch to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, some cast-iron rainwater goods and a yellow brick chimneystack. Coursed rubble limestone walls with limestone quoins. Flat-arched window openings with granite sills. Square-headed door opening to porch. - Ard House, farm house, 1650–1750, Regional interest, registry number 14926004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14926004. Detached five-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse with attic storey, built c.1700, with recessed flanking end bays and outbuildings to partially cobbled rear yard. Roof rebuilt in 1786. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Recessed square-headed door opening with timber panelled and glazed door. Door accessed up five limestone steps. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and timber sash windows. Timber casement windows to basement. Single-storey outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs. The house is internally divided equally in three with an oversized stairs occupying the central space flanked by rooms. The oversized stairs is an integral part of the house and unusually runs from the ground floor to the attic. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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 Ard. - 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/ard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Ard, Geashill: 13 sales, https://everytownland.com/offaly/ard-geashill.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghanvilla: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghanvilla.md - Ballyavill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyavill.md - Ballydownan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballydownan.md - Ballymacrossan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymacrossan.md - Glebe East: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glebe-east.md - Gorteenard: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteenard.md - Killellery: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killellery.md - Raheen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/raheen-181024.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/ard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ard