# Castlefield, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Letterluna, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Páirc an Chaisleáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 317,997 m² (31.8 ha, 78.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,332 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Letterluna, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/letterluna.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Letter, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41457 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180323 - Centre: latitude 53.127507, longitude -7.666228 (WGS 84) ## 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 299938: 135,510 m² (13.55 ha, 33.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299938.md - Parcel 5063105: 73,205 m² (7.32 ha, 18.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063105.md - Parcel 4675645: 46,769 m² (4.68 ha, 11.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675645.md - Parcel 274964: 14,160 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274964.md - Parcel 4950959: 13,849 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950959.md - Parcel 2428619: 10,216 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428619.md - Parcel 313899: 6,552 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313899.md - Parcel 307664: 4,392 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307664.md - Parcel 271634: 4,332 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271634.md - Parcel 2477368: 4,126 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2477368.md - Parcel 2477365: 3,941 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2477365.md - Parcel 5063103: 1,088 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063103.md - Parcel 4675641: 485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675641.md - Parcel 295476: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/295476.md - Parcel 5341726: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5341726.md - Parcel 5341709: 32 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5341709.md - Parcel 5341735: 1 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5341735.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 23 Dec 2024, Offaly County Council 2460534: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a two-storey dwelling, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance, driveway and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460534/0 - 3 Oct 2023, Offaly County Council 23389: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23389/0 - 7 Aug 2020, Offaly County Council 20357: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20357/0 - 29 Jul 2020, Offaly County Council 20332: N/a. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20332/0 - 7 Aug 2018, Offaly County Council 18342: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18342/0 - 24 Aug 2017, Offaly County Council 17312: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17312/0 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 Castlefield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF036-016: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-016----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlefield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/castlefield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/castlefield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/castlefield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cadamstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cadamstown.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/offaly/deerpark-180558.md - Drummin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drummin.md - Kilmacuddy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmacuddy.md - Lackaroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lackaroe.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/castlefield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/castlefield