# Charleville Demesne, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lynally, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Bhóthair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,617,755 m² (461.78 ha, 1,141.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lynally, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/lynally.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Tullamore Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,555 people lived in 1,185 households in the Tullamore Rural electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 69% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42310 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180330 - Centre: latitude 53.26024, longitude -7.526138 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Charleville Demesne, from 1,060 m² to 47,953 m² (4.8 ha, 11.85 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4861158: 47,953 m² (4.8 ha, 11.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861158.md - Parcel 5050713: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5050713.md - Parcel 360699: 1,060 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/360699.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027 (Variation No.1), Offaly; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=3 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 4 Aug 2021, Offaly County Council 21481: Refused. Permission, 25 homes. (A) THE DEMOLITION OF 2NO. EXISTING BUNGALOWS & DOMESTIC GARAGES ON CHARLEVILLE ROAD AND OTHER EXISTING STRUCTURES ON SITE. (B) THE CONSTRUCTION OF 25NO. RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS, COMPROMISING OF 3NO. FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY DETACHED UNITS (TYPE A), 3NO. FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY DETACHED CORNER UNITS (TYPE A1), 2NO. TWO-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED BUNGALOWS (TYPE B), 2NO. TWO-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED CORNER BUNGALOWS (TYPE B 1), 8NO. THREE-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY SEMI-DETACHED UNITS (TYPE C), 2NO. FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY SEMI-DETACHED UNITS (TYPE D), 1 NO. TERRACED BLOCK COMPROMISING OF 2NO. THREE-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY END-TERRACED UNITS (TYPE E), 2NO. TWO-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY MID-TERRACED UNITS (TYPE E1), AND 1 NO. FIVE-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY DETACHED UNIT (TYPE F). TYPE A, A1 AND D TO INCLUDE AN OPTION TO CONVERT ATTIC SPACE INTO ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION. (C) THE PROVISION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING NEW SITE ENTRANCE, ROADS, PAVING, PATHWAYS, CYCLE LANES, PARKING, AMENITY SPACE, STREET LIGHTING, DRAINAGE, INCLUDING NEW FOUL SEWER PUMPING STATION, AND RISING MAIN CONNECTION TO CHARLEVILLE ROAD, SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE & OUTFLOW TO EXISTING DRAINS, ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21481/0 - 16 Jul 2021, Offaly County Council 21441: N/a. Permission. (A) THE DEMOLITION OF 2NO. EXISTING BUNGALOWS & DOMESTIC GARAGES ON CHARLEVILLE ROAD AND OTHER EXISTING STRUCTURES ON SITE. (B) THE CONSTRUCTION OF 25NO. RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS, COMPROMISING OF 3NO. FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY DETACHED UNITS (TYPE A), 3NO. FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY DETACHED CORNER UNITS (TYPE A1), 2NO. TWO-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED BUNGALOWS (TYPE B), 2NO. TWO-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED CORNER BUNGALOWS (TYPE B 1), 8NO. THREE-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY SEMI-DETACHED UNITS (TYPE C), 2NO. FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY SEMI-DETACHED UNITS (TYPE D), 1NO. 4-UNIT TERRACED BLOCK COMPROMISING OF 2NO. THREE-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY END-TERRACED UNITS (TYPE E), 2NO. TWO-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY MID-TERRACED UNITS (TYPE E1), AND 1NO. FIVE-BEDROOM TWO-STOREY DETACHED UNIT (TYPE F). TYPE A, A1 AND D TO INCLUDE AN OPTION TO CONVERT ATTIC SPACE INTO ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION. (C) THE PROVISION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING NEW SITE ENTRANCE, ROADS, PAVING, PATHWAYS, CYCLE LANES, PARKING, AMENITY SPACE, STREET LIGHTING, DRAINAGE INCLUDING NEW FOUL SEWER PUMPING STATION, AND RISING MAIN CONNECTION TO CHARLEVILLE ROAD, SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE & OUTFLOW TO EXISTING DRAINS, ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21441/0 - 2 Jan 2018, Offaly County Council 182: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/182/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Charleville Wood SAC, site code 000571, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000571 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Charleville Wood, site code 000571 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF016-030001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-030001-. The well is virtually unrecognisable and is covered with overgrowth. Impossible to examine due to dense overgrowth. Large boulder marked on OS 6-inch map as 'Christs Stone' (OF016-030002-) beside holy well. 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 - OF016-030002: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-030002-. Unable to examine this stone due to the overgrowth which surrounds the stone and well (OF016-030001-). 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 - OF016-040: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-040----. No surface remains visible of circular enclosure that is depicted on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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 - OF016-041: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-041----. Silage pit and farm sheds located on site of Redwood Castle that was the residence of the Forth family in the 17th century (Loeber 1988, vol. 4, 34-6). 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) - Charleville Castle, steward's house, 1830–1840, Regional interest, registry number 14916021, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916021. Detached three-bay two-storey steward's house, built in 1836, with return to rear and extensions to east and west. Set within the grounds of Charleville Demesne. Hipped slate roof with ridge leading, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods with stone corbelling supporting eaves. Yellow brick to front elevation with tooled limestone quoins, smooth rendered walls to all other elevations. Timber sash windows with tooled block-and-start surrounds with decorative keystone and tooled stone sills. Timber sash and timber casement windows to extensions. Square-headed door opening with tooled limestone block-and-start surround and keystone with date, to timber and glazed door. Ranges of random rubble outbuildings with corrugated roofs to east and hipped roof to west. Range of single-storey rendered outbuildings with pitched slate roof to north. Outbuildings surrounding yard with rubble limestone wall with tooled capping to centre. Random coursed outbuilding with cut limestone quoins, four segmental-headed carriage arches and pitched corrugated roof to south east of house. Farmyard surround by crenellated random wall with ashlar gate piers. - Charleville Castle, country house, 1800–1815, National interest, registry number 14916022, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916022. Detached Gothic Revival castle, built c.1805, by Francis Johnston. Central block of three-bay three-storey over basement with octagonal tower to west, circular tower to east, private chapel with five bays to nave and pinnacled towers to north-west with stable complex of three ranges surrounding an enclosed courtyard to north-west. Roof hidden by parapet. Lead rainwater goods. Random coursed limestone walls with tooled stone quoins to octagonal tower. Crenellated parapet supported by stone corbels to main block with stone brackets to octagonal parapet on western tower and elaborate corbels to circular eastern tower. Tower and elaborate corbels to circular eastern tower. Variety of window openings and styles. Square-headed and pointed-arched openings with timber casement and stone mullioned windows, some with hoodmoulding, all with tooled stone surrounds. Loop windows within towers. Central entrance within projecting bay of tooled stone with crenellated parapet supported on corbels. Containing large Tudor arched recess with chamfered soffit. Tudor arched door opening with chamfered reveals flanked by cross openings with timber battened door and iron studded double doors. Entrance surmounted by large stone tracery window with decorative carved stone sill. Tooled stone step with stone flags to entrance. Square-headed opening with stone flags to entrance. Square-headed opening with tooled stone surround gives access to basement. - Charleville Castle, gate lodge, 1800–1860, Regional interest, registry number 14916023, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916023. Ruined L-plan gate lodge, built c.1840. Set inside entrance to Charleville Castle demesne. Comprising central four-centre arch set to castellated random coursed limestone wall flanked by castellated rounded towers with random coursed wall running to north. Chamfered cut stone surround to arch. Castellated wall to edge of river in front of lodge. - Charleville Castle, grotto, 1720–1760, Regional interest, registry number 14916028, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916028. Detached limestone grotto, built c.1740, next to the Clodiagh River. Comprising of a long passage terminating in a circular room with fireplace. Random rubble stone walls with random rubble corbelling to interior roof. Window openings with cast-iron tracery glazing bars. Tooled limestone door surround, now overgrown. - Charleville Castle, icehouse, 1800–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14916029, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916029. Icehouse comprising a deep circular brick lined pit, topped by a brick dome, built c.1810, accessed by a stone passage with segmental-headed door opening with limestone arch. Set into hillside. - Charleville Castle, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1750–1800, Regional interest, registry number 14916031, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916031. Circular random coursed stone fortifications, built c.1780, with cut stone segmental-headed arched opening. Loop windows with tooled stone surrounds open intermittently. Corrugated-iron roof has collapsed. - Charleville Castle, boathouse, 1730–1780, Regional interest, registry number 14916032, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916032. Former boathouse, built c.1770, within the demesne of Charleville Castle. Segmental-headed arched opening with random coursed limestone walls flanking entrance. Stone barrel-vaulted internal roof. Blocked square-headed opening to rear. Lake has been drained. - Charleville Estate Office, office, 1850–1890, Regional interest, registry number 14917007, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14917007. Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1870, with return and outbuildings to rear. Now used as a workshop. Set back from the road. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly coursed walls to façade, pebbledashed walls to gables and rear. Timber sash windows with cement surrounds and sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door. - Charleville Castle, gate lodge, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 14917008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14917008. Detached three-bay single-storey L-plan gate lodge, built in 1860, with extension to west gable. Set within grounds of Charleville Estate. Pitched roof, with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks, timber bargeboard and finial to gable of façade. Roughly coursed limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins to angles. Date plaque of 1860 set in gable wall. Three light timber lattice windows with tooled limestone surround. Square-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround and timber panelled door. Two-bay single-storey extension with pitched slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth and pebble dashed walls. Timber sash windows and painted sills. Timber panelled door. - Charleville Castle, worker's house, 1860–1870, Regional interest, registry number 14917010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14917010. Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic cross-plan, built in 1864, with extension. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks, terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards and finials on gables. Yellow brick walls with red brick to angles and red brick geometric patterns. Timber casement windows to front elevation and timber sash windows to side elevations with tooled limestone sills. Four centred-headed door opening recessed in porch with sidelights, fanlight and timber panelled door. Porch accessed by three stone steps. Square-headed door opening to side elevation with timber glazed door. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear abutting garden wall. Cat slide slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed window and door openings. Site bounded by random stone wall, with post holes and three segmental-headed gate openings with wrought-iron gates. Round-headed opening in wall leads to walled garden at the centre of which stands two large greenhouses which are now abandoned and quite overgrown. - Charleville Castle, folly, 1800–1850, Regional interest, registry number 14917011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14917011. Detached triangular plan four-storey tower folly, built c.1820, and possibly incorporating fabric from an earlier tower. Outbuildings to rear and abutting walls. Set within forested area. Random rubble walls with quoins. Roofless tooled window surrounds with timber window frames, diamond tracery windows with timber frames. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel. Spiral staircase with tooled stone steps to interior. Remaining fireplaces with iron grates. Derelict yellow brick outbuildings to rear. Carved stone plaque depicting figures holding arrows on north-west elevation. - Charleville Castle, worker's house, 1870–1880, Regional interest, registry number 14917012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14917012. Detached three-bay two-storey gamekeeper's house, built in 1874 with extension to rear and outbuildings abutting wall of house. Set within its own grounds. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta pots, bargeboards to roof and gable finials. Yellow brick walls with red brick string course. Pointed arch window openings with tooled stone surrounds and yellow and black brick arches. Timber frame windows with tooled sills. Canted bay window with tooled stone surround and modillions to roof. Timber frame windows with stone sills. Projecting window to south with tooled surround, limestone sills and lintel, timber frame windows. Tooled limestone lintel to square-headed timber door with tooled stone threshold. Yellow brick outbuildings with slate roof abutting back of building. Holding pens for animals to rear if house with cast- and wrought-iron railings. - Charleville Castle, gate lodge, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 14917013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14917013. Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey former lodge to Charleville Castle demesne, built c.1880, with extension to rear. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched tiled roof with tooled stone chimney. Random stone tooled walls with roughcast render to sides. Tooled stone surround to windows with tooled stone hoodmoulding, replacement uPVC windows and stone sills. Replacement timber door to square-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround with tooled limestone hoodmoulding. Tooled stone plinth wall with capping stone. Ornate tooled stone gate piers with carved capping stone, cast- and wrought-iron railings. - Charleville Castle, tunnel, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 14917014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14917014. Arched masonry span pedestrian underpass built, c.1840, beneath public road traversing Charleville Castle demesne. Random rubble construction with semicircular arch profile. Dressed limestone voussoirs. Wrought-iron gates to south end. ## 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 Charleville Demesne, 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1939, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1939.zip (ZIP). - 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/charleville-demesne.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/charleville-demesne.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/charleville-demesne.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Charleville Demesne 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) - Ballard: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballard.md - Ballynagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynagh.md - Brookfield: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brookfield.md - Cartron West: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cartron-west.md - Clonagh East: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonagh-east.md - Kilbride: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilbride-180772.md - Killiskea: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killiskea.md - Lynally Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lynally-glebe.md - Mucklagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mucklagh.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/charleville-demesne - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/charleville-demesne