Charlestown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Charlestown, from 2,779 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) to 465,240 m² (46.52 ha, 114.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Charlestown 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.

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  EXISTING 24M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE, ASSOCIATED ANTENNAE AND LINK DISHES, EQUIPMENT CABIN, SECURITY FENCE AROUND SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT FORMS PART OF VODAFONE IRELAND LTD'S EXISTING GSM AND 3G BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 1771

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: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

• OF013-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (CUCAP, BDK 57) shows cropmark of large circular enclosure. 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 Charlestown.

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

At the centre of the townland of Charlestown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1523 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Charlestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Charlestown · Baile Chathail

Area

1,182,603 m² (118.26 ha, 292.23 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmacnoise, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Shannonbridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

272 people lived in 122 households in the Shannonbridge electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonever, Derryholmes or Timolin and Derryharan, Garrymore, Killaphort, Lecarrow

Placenames

Charlestown 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.