# Beggarstown, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lusmagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile na mBacach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 633,401 m² (63.34 ha, 156.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,976 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Lusmagh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/lusmagh.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Mounterin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 263 people lived in 90 households in the Mounterin electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41505 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180235 - Centre: latitude 53.135968, longitude -7.963841 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beggarstown, from 340 m² to 165,056 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 274369: 165,056 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274369.md - Parcel 270308: 149,017 m² (14.9 ha, 36.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270308.md - Parcel 303612: 113,770 m² (11.38 ha, 28.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303612.md - Parcel 279788: 77,109 m² (7.71 ha, 19.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279788.md - Parcel 301997: 54,015 m² (5.4 ha, 13.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301997.md - Parcel 307366: 44,591 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307366.md - Parcel 305677: 7,493 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305677.md - Parcel 3119743: 5,551 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3119743.md - Parcel 309966: 4,401 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309966.md - Parcel 4222552: 3,972 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222552.md - Parcel 283018: 2,435 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283018.md - Parcel 284267: 2,227 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284267.md - Parcel 306906: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306906.md - Parcel 4634074: 1,522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4634074.md - Parcel 306664: 571 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306664.md - Parcel 5414951: 340 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5414951.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Beggarstown 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. - 13 Oct 2023, Offaly County Council 23397: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. THE RENOVATION OF AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, ALL INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, FRONT BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23397/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ridge Road, SW of Rapemills SAC, site code 000919, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000919 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ridge Road, SW Of Rapemills, site code 000919 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Beggarstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beggarstown. ## 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 Beggarstown, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1586, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1586.zip (ZIP). - 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/beggarstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/beggarstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/beggarstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Beggarstown 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) - Clonrah and Glaster: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonrah-and-glaster.md - Coolaghansglaster: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolaghansglaster.md - Glaster: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glaster.md - Turnersglaster: https://everytownland.com/offaly/turnersglaster.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/beggarstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/beggarstown