# Backwood, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballykean, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly; in Irish Bac-chraobh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,702,872 m² (170.29 ha, 420.79 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 17,224 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballykean, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballykean.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/41995
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180043
- Centre: latitude 53.18582, longitude -7.30494 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Backwood, from 506 m² to 224,258 m² (22.43 ha, 55.42 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 269677: 224,258 m² (22.43 ha, 55.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269677.md
- Parcel 4222529: 154,619 m² (15.46 ha, 38.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222529.md
- Parcel 5022664: 130,360 m² (13.04 ha, 32.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5022664.md
- Parcel 269679: 127,040 m² (12.7 ha, 31.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269679.md
- Parcel 4222527: 117,840 m² (11.78 ha, 29.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222527.md
- Parcel 5189691: 103,996 m² (10.4 ha, 25.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5189691.md
- Parcel 5189733: 91,731 m² (9.17 ha, 22.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5189733.md
- Parcel 4222528: 86,677 m² (8.67 ha, 21.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222528.md
- Parcel 305349: 85,591 m² (8.56 ha, 21.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305349.md
- Parcel 5031358: 78,461 m² (7.85 ha, 19.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5031358.md
- Parcel 313777: 76,275 m² (7.63 ha, 18.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313777.md
- Parcel 4222530: 75,778 m² (7.58 ha, 18.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222530.md
- Parcel 305077: 66,476 m² (6.65 ha, 16.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305077.md
- Parcel 312081: 58,744 m² (5.87 ha, 14.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312081.md
- Parcel 269678: 48,138 m² (4.81 ha, 11.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269678.md
- Parcel 271221: 21,496 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271221.md
- Parcel 306102: 19,636 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306102.md
- Parcel 307377: 17,224 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307377.md
- Parcel 4369177: 6,585 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4369177.md
- Parcel 5031379: 5,612 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5031379.md
- Parcel 5031356: 4,256 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5031356.md
- Parcel 5493530: 3,780 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5493530.md
- Parcel 308802: 3,150 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308802.md
- Parcel 4951898: 2,922 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951898.md
- Parcel 300710: 2,769 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300710.md
- Parcel 286785: 2,556 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286785.md
- Parcel 272495: 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272495.md
- Parcel 271004: 2,369 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271004.md
- Parcel 303252: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303252.md
- Parcel 4369208: 1,599 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4369208.md
- Parcel 307769: 1,536 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307769.md
- Parcel 5031357: 1,343 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5031357.md
- Parcel 271745: 773 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/271745.md
- Parcel 287882: 615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287882.md
- Parcel 273510: 506 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273510.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Backwood 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 24 Jan 2024, Offaly County Council 2460018: Conditional. Retention. Extension to Existing Single Storey Dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460018/0
- 27 Mar 2023, Offaly County Council 23132: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING FILE REG. 21610 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23132/0
- 4 Oct 2021, Offaly County Council 21610: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21610/0
- 19 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21225: Conditional. Retention. EXISTING 30M HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AND ACCESS TRACK EXTENSION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21225/0
- 21 Jun 2018, Offaly County Council 18271: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. A TWO STOREY DOMESTIC RESIDENCE, GARAGE AND INSTALL AN APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18271/0

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## 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 Backwood.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Backwood.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Backwood.
- 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/backwood.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/backwood.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/backwood.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Backwood 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)

- Ballymacrossan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymacrossan.md
- Clonygowan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonygowan.md
- Fearnamona: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fearnamona.md
- Sranure: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sranure.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.

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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/backwood
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/backwood