Clashroe

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clashroe, from 367 m² to 948,624 m² (94.86 ha, 234.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Clashroe 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.

• 3 Jun 2021Conditional

  THE AS-CONSTRUCTED 300 M³ WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR, PLANT SHEDS, BORE WELLS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21341

• 5 May 2021N/a

  THE AS-CONSTRUCTED 300 CUBIC METER WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR, 2 NO. PLANT SHEDS, BORE WELLS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21278

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF THE SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO THE EAST, THE EXISTING EXTENSION, AND THE OUTBUILDING TO THE WEST, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST, THE ADJUSTMENT OF AN EXISTING WINDOW OPE TO THE SOUTH, THE ADDITION OF WINDOWS TO BOTH THE EAST AND THE SOUTH OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, REPLACING WINDOWS AND DOORS THROUGHOUT, THE REBUILDING OF THE EXISTING CHIMNEY, THE ADDITION OF ROOFLIGHTS, A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE TO THE SOUTH

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2080

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: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412

Recorded monuments

• LA010-001002 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Situated on top of a mountain with good views in all directions. Irregular shaped stone cairn consisting of a circular tower built of overlapping stones which appears to have been constructed in the 19th century as a county boundary marker by the OS. This monument marks the border between Offaly and Laois and is used as a Trigonometrical station to mark a bench mark. Piles of stones resembling small cairns to the N and S also mark the line of the county boundary.

• OF039-056 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1912 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

• OF039-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W facing slope of high ground below the summit. Large circular area (diam 59m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m - 1m; ext. H 3m) which is badly damaged at W and reduced to a scarp in places. There are slight traces of an outer fosse from S through W to N with a modern laneway enclosing the inner bank from S through W to N. No evidence of an entrance feature. 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

• OF039-060003 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Situated on top of a mountain with good views in all directions. Irregular shaped stone cairn consisting of a circular tower built of overlapping stones which appears to have been constructed in the 19th century as a county boundary marker by the OS. This monument marks the border between Offaly and Laois and is used as a Trigonometrical station to mark a bench mark. Piles of stones resembling small cairns to the N and S also mark the line of the county boundary. 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

• OF039-060004 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on top of a mountain with good views in all directions. Irregular shaped stone cairn consisting of a circular tower built of overlapping stones which appears to have been constructed in the 19th century as a county boundary marker by the OS. This monument marks the border between Offaly and Laois and is used as a Trigonometrical station to mark a bench mark. Piles of stones resembling small cairns to the N and S also mark the line of the county boundary. 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 Clashroe.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Clashroe.

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.

No address of the register names Clashroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Clashroe · An Chlais Rua

Area

3,993,411 m² (399.34 ha, 986.79 acres)

Civil parish

Roscomroe, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Roscomroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roscomroe electoral division: 159 people in 50 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Garranbaun (Co. Laois), Newtown, Pollduff, Roscomroe

Placenames

Clashroe 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.