# Claremount, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Reynagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cnocán Chlára. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 302,663 m² (30.27 ha, 74.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,744 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Reynagh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/reynagh.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Banagher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,215 people lived in 802 households in the Banagher electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% 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/41155 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180337 - Centre: latitude 53.175132, longitude -7.964429 (WGS 84) ## 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); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 307781: 112,493 m² (11.25 ha, 27.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307781.md - Parcel 268733: 58,442 m² (5.84 ha, 14.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268733.md - Parcel 4952565: 56,273 m² (5.63 ha, 13.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952565.md - Parcel 3735194: 29,024 m² (2.9 ha, 7.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3735194.md - Parcel 5382014: 18,172 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5382014.md - Parcel 274569: 13,315 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274569.md - Parcel 3720124: 7,848 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3720124.md - Parcel 298103: 4,659 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298103.md - Parcel 294012: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/294012.md - Parcel 268736: 631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/268736.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 8 Sept 2023, Offaly County Council 2360106: Conditional. Permission. to erect dog kennels and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360106/0 - 8 Dec 2022, Offaly County Council 22630: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22630/0 - 21 Oct 2022, Offaly County Council 22546: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22546/0 - 7 Oct 2022, Offaly County Council 22517: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22517/0 - 5 Jun 2019, Offaly County Council 19264: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19264/0 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 Claremount. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Claremount. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Claremount House, country house, 1770–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14929002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14929002. 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. ## 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 Claremount, 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. - 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, 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/claremount.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/claremount.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/claremount.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyeighter: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyeighter.md - Boheradurrow: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boheradurrow.md - Boolakeel: https://everytownland.com/offaly/boolakeel.md - Clontotan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clontotan.md - Feeghroe or Mountcarteret: https://everytownland.com/offaly/feeghroe-or-mountcarteret.md - Garrycastle: https://everytownland.com/offaly/garrycastle.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/claremount - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/claremount