Bawnmore

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawnmore, from 1,646 m² to 145,277 m² (14.53 ha, 35.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bawnmore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  RED III application - The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development (renewable energy development) with a total site area of 143.4 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, inverters, internal access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, electrical cabling and ducting, two temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The proposed development will utilise two existing access points, which will include the upgrading and widening of an existing access off the L1013. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660319

• 15 Jun 2026Conditional

  the renovation of a detached derelict structure, formally a dwelling house, demolition of the existing extension to the rear, construction of new front porch (South-West), and the construction of a single-storey extension to the rear (South-East) of the existing dwelling. The works will include amendments to existing fenestration, the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area, the installation of wastewater treatment system, ecoflow coco filter and soil polishing filter, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660315

• 28 May 2026N/a

  RED III application - The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development (renewable energy development) with a total site area of 143.4 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, inverters, internal access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, electrical cabling and ducting, two temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The proposed development will utilise two existing access points, which will include the upgrading and widening of an existing access off the L1013. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660287

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bawnmore.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 507/6) shows clear outline of square enclosure. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with lobby-entry plan. Oaten straw roof pitched to north-west end and hipped to south-east with decorative knotting and exposed scolloping to ridge and twine to eaves. Low rendered concrete chimneystack. Pebbledashed walls. Replacement timber windows. Windbreak with thatch of roof projecting over with timber panelled door. Sited at end of long avenue and facing into yard having outbuilding to one side with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roof and rendered stone walls.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Bawnmore.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

No address of the register names Bawnmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Bawnmore · An Bábhún Mór

Area

997,079 m² (99.71 ha, 246.38 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballychristal, Dalgan, Killarles, Raheenbeg

Placenames

Bawnmore on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. 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.