# Backsteel, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baicstiall. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 139,555 m² (13.96 ha, 34.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 139,802 m² (13.98 ha, 34.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/rahan.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Rahan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 753 people lived in 243 households in the Rahan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% 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/42205 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180042 - Centre: latitude 53.296765, longitude -7.602392 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Backsteel, from 139,802 m² (13.98 ha, 34.55 acres) to 139,802 m² (13.98 ha, 34.55 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 309746: 139,802 m² (13.98 ha, 34.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309746.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Backsteel 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) No planning application touches the townland of Backsteel in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Backsteel. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Backsteel. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Backsteel. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Backsteel, 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: the Geological Survey did not answer. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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/backsteel.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/backsteel.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/backsteel.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Backsteel 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) - Aghalusky: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghalusky.md - Derrynanagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrynanagh.md - Tullymorerahan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tullymorerahan.md - Tullymorerahan or Derrynanagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tullymorerahan-or-derrynanagh.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/backsteel - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/backsteel