Castlefield
Townland in the civil parish of Letterluna, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Páirc an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 31.8 ha
- 79 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,332 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlefield, from 1 m² to 135,510 m² (13.55 ha, 33.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castlefield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Dec 2024Refused
Construction of a two-storey dwelling, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance, driveway and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460534
3 Oct 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23389
7 Aug 2020Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20357
29 Jul 2020N/a
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20332
7 Aug 2018Conditional
EXISTING EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION FOR A NEW EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Offaly County Council, 18342
24 Aug 2017Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17312
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlefield.
Recorded monuments
- OF036-016 Castle - unclassified
Description
Situated on high ground with bog to the N. Only a few protruding stones mark the site of this castle. Impossible to determine its shape or size from the surface evidence. (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 81) 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlefield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Castlefield.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Castlefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Castlefield · Páirc an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 317,997 m² (31.8 ha, 78.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Letterluna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Electoral division
- Letter, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Letter electoral division: 161 people in 55 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cadamstown, Deerpark, Drummin, Kilmacuddy, Lackaroe
- Placenames
- Castlefield 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.