# Blackbull, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Reynagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Tarbh Dubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 462,286 m² (46.23 ha, 114.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,111 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Reynagh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/reynagh.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/41517 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180244 - Centre: latitude 53.164393, longitude -7.946857 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackbull, from 1,767 m² to 208,762 m² (20.88 ha, 51.59 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 309975: 208,762 m² (20.88 ha, 51.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309975.md - Parcel 303618: 197,478 m² (19.75 ha, 48.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303618.md - Parcel 270314: 13,287 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270314.md - Parcel 359450: 9,888 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359450.md - Parcel 3469545: 9,494 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3469545.md - Parcel 3469533: 5,740 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3469533.md - Parcel 275569: 4,482 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275569.md - Parcel 4914796: 4,211 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4914796.md - Parcel 286582: 3,442 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286582.md - Parcel 360419: 2,543 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360419.md - Parcel 6137112: 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6137112.md - Parcel 277630: 1,767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/277630.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blackbull 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. - 24 Sept 2024, Offaly County Council 2460365: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a new dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460365/0 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 Blackbull. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackbull. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackbull. ## 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 Blackbull, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blackbull. - 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/blackbull.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/blackbull.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/blackbull.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blackbull 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) - Ballyneena: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyneena.md - Boheradurrow: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boheradurrow.md - Boolakeel: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolakeel.md - Garrycastle: https://everytownland.com/offaly/garrycastle.md - Meenwaun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/meenwaun.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/milltown-180949.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/blackbull - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/blackbull