Cangort Demesne

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cangort Demesne, from 596 m² to 301,399 m² (30.14 ha, 74.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Cangort Demesne 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.

• 27 Apr 2026N/a

  A SLATTED CATTLE HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE, ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2639

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Sharavogue Bog SAC 000585
• Natural Heritage Area: Cangort Bog NHA 000890

Recorded monuments

• OF042-013 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  No surface trace visible of castle which was besieged and destroyed by the Cromwellian forces in the 17th-century. 19th-century Cangort House built on site of the castle (Bence-Jones 1978, 55) 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

• Worker's house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lodge to Cangort Wood, built c.1830. Set back from the road. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Timber battened door with limestone threshold. Timber paned casement windows with limestone sills. Site accessed through wrought-iron double gates supported by limestone piers and flanked by pedestrian gates.

• Cangort House, country house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Jacobean style country house, built c.1870, incorporating earlier house visible from the rear and built on the site of Cangort Castle, destroyed in the seventeenth century. Three-bay two-storey principal elevation with projecting gabled bay and gabled entrance porch. South-facing side elevation has gabled end bays. Pitched slate roofs with tall rendered chimneystacks with moulded brick cornices. Punched ashlar limestone south-facing elevation and to projecting gables to front and rear elevations with heraldic plaques, corbelled eaves course and surmounted by finials. Ruled-and-lined render to remaining elevations. Square-headed window openings to front and south-facing side elevations with box-bay windows with transom and mullion windows to ground floor and square-headed mullion windows to first floor. Round-headed window openings to rear elevation with timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with timber sash windows and limestone sills. Tudor arched door opening to gabled entrance porch with limestone hoodmoulding and timber and glazed door. Ranges of single- and two-storey outbuildings in yard to north of house. Walled garden to north-west of house with random coursed walls. Ruined three-bay single-storey structure to rear of walled garden with pointed-arched door opening. Site accessed through decorative cast-iron gates and railings to road.

• Cangort House, gate lodge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to Cangort House, built c.1870, with modern extension to rear. Located in a wooded area in the former demesne. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and decorative bargeboards. Rendered walls with limestone corbelled eaves course. Pointed-arched window openings with decorative tooled limestone surrounds comprising limestone transom, sill and hoodmoulding with fanlight and timber casement window. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled and glazed door.

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 moderately low, 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 Cangort Demesne.

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 Cangort Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Cangort Demesne · An Camghort

Area

2,180,305 m² (218.03 ha, 538.77 acres)

Civil parish

Shinrone, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Cangort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cangort electoral division: 200 people in 71 households; 86% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cangort Park, Cloghmoyle, Druminduff, Gortcreen, Kilfrancis, Kilmurryely, Quakerstown (Co. Tipperary), Toora

Placenames

Cangort Demesne 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.