Claremount
Townland in the civil parish of Reynagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cnocán Chlára
- Area
- 30.3 ha
- 75 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 15,744 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claremount, from 631 m² to 112,493 m² (11.25 ha, 27.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Claremount 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
8 Sept 2023Conditional
to erect dog kennels and all associated site works.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360106
8 Dec 2022Conditional
(1) THE REMOVAL OF DEAD, DANGEROUS AND HAZARDOUS TREES ON SITE (FOLIOS OY29747F & OY22812F) INCLUDING THOSE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE MAIN ROAD, THE R439 AND TO THOSE LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE AVENUE ROAD TRAVERSING THE LANDS. (2) CONTINUATION OF WORKS SCHEDULED AS OUTLINED IN THE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE VALIDATED FELLING LICENCE TFL00145618
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22630
21 Oct 2022N/a
(1) THE REMOVAL OF DEAD, DANGEROUS AND HAZARDOUS TREES ON SITE (FOLIOS OY9592 & OY22812F) INCLUDING THOSE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE MAIN ROAD, THE R439 AND TO THOSE LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE AVENUE ROAD TRAVERSING THE LANDS AND (2) CONTINUATION OF WORKS SCHEDULED AS OUTLINED IN THE DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE VALIDATED FELLING LICENCE TFL00145618
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22546
7 Oct 2022N/a
THE REMOVAL OF DEAD, DANGEROUS AND HAZARDOUS TREES AT THIS SITE AND THE CONTINUED WORKS AS SCHEDULED IN THE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE VALIDATED FELLING LICENCE. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF (1) THE REMOVAL OF DEAD, DANGEROUS AND HAZARDOUS TREES ON SITE (FOLIO 'S OY9592 & OY22812F) INCLUDING THOSE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE MAIN ROAD, THE R439 AND TO THOSE LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE AVENUE ROAD TRAVERSING THE LANDS. (2) CONTINUATION OF WORKS SCHEDULED AS OUTLINED IN THE DEPT OFAGRICULTURE VALIDATED FELLING LICENCE TFL00145618
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22517
5 Jun 2019Conditional
A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19264
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 Claremount.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Claremount.
Architectural heritage
- Claremount House, country house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1790, with entrance porch to front elevation. Return and two-storey addition to rear and modern two-storey extension to south-east. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash Wyatt windows with limestone sills to front elevation. Segmental-headed window opening to entrance porch with timber sash Wyatt window and bat's wing fanlight detail. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation with timber casement and uPVC windows. Round-headed window opening to stairs in return. Square-headed door openings to entrance porch with timber panelled doors with Coade plaques above. Stairs accessed up limestone steps flanked by cast-iron railings. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to rear yard. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to north-west of house with a hipped slate roof, roughcast rendered walls with a stepped cornice detail to top of front elevation wall. Timber battened door to gabled entrance porch. Located adjacent to entrance gates. Ashlar limestone gate piers supporting wrought-iron double gates and flanked by wrought-iron railings on a limestone plinth wall terminating in limestone piers.
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 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 Claremount.
- 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 Claremount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Claremount · Cnocán Chlára
- Area
- 302,663 m² (30.27 ha, 74.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Reynagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Banagher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Banagher electoral division: 2,215 people in 802 households; 65% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyeighter, Boheradurrow, Boolakeel, Clontotan, Feeghroe or Mountcarteret, Garrycastle
- Placenames
- Claremount 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.