Cloghan Demesne

106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghan Demesne, from 339 m² to 472,762 m² (47.28 ha, 116.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Cloghan Demesne 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.

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2192

• 6 Feb 2018Conditional

  BUILDING ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE THE CONVERSION OF PORTION OF THE EXISTING ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A HABITABLE ROOM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 1846

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Little Brosna Callows SPA 004086
• Natural Heritage Area: River Little Brosna Callows NHA 000564

Recorded monuments

• OF029-008001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise overlooking the low-lying floodplains of the river Shannon to the S. Well preserved rectangular tower (dims. 13m N-S; 10.1m E-W) four storeys high which has been greatly modified with a later building attached to the E side of the tower. The bawn wall (OF029-008003-) has also been modified on the SW angle where an 18th-century square flanking tower and outhouses were inserted. Originally the bawn ran northwards from the NW angle of the tower returning eastwards then returning southwards then westwards and then northwards where it joined the tower at the SW angle. Three original flanking towers survive along with the wall walk. Externally the tower has two bartizans one at the NE angle at wall walk level and the second on the SW angle at third floor level. There are two twin light round headed windows at third floor level on the W wall which appear to be original. The original door to the tower now destroyed was on the E wall protected by a machicolation and murder-hole directly above passage with spiral stairs in SE angle and guardroom in NE angle. From the lobby area the ground floor was accessed which had a wooden floor carried on stone corbels. Directly above the murder-hole are a series of vaulted chambers orientated on a N-S axis. The main chambers all of which have wooden floors are accessed from the spiral stairs via two centred pointed doors with chamfered finely punch dressed jambs. Mural passage in the S wall at first floor level gives access to a garderobe in the SW angle. Large fireplace on the W wall at third floor level and a large fireplace at ground floor level on the N wall. Access to the machicolation on the SW angle from the main chamber at third floor level. The fine punch dressing, lack of barrel vault over ground floor and historical references indicate that the existing structure is late 16th/17th-century in date. Probably dating to the period of rebuilding after the castle was destroyed by the Elizabethan army in 1595 (JRSAI 1862, 188-9). 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

• OF029-008002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise overlooking the low-lying floodplains of the river Shannon to the S. Well preserved rectangular tower house (OF029-008001-) four storeys high which has been greatly modified with a later building attached to the E side of the tower. Unlocated Sheela-na-gig now missing that was recorded in the 1906 by Thomas Cooke a local antiquarian who stated that this figure was known locally as the 'Witch'. According to Guest this figure was ‘said to be cut in limestone and preserved in a museum in the south of Ireland’ (Guest 1936, 110). Hitchcock recorded that the ‘late Mr. Cooke stated that he had in his possession an image called by the peasantry "the witch," which originally stood in Cloghan in the King's County, the old name of which was Cloghan-na-gcaora, the stone of the sheep, which represented an Hermaphrodite, one of the breasts being like the sun and the other a crescent like the moon’ (Hitchcock 1908, 30). 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 05 June 2012

• OF029-008003 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise overlooking the low-lying floodplains of the river Shannon to the S. Well preserved rectangular tower house (OF029-008001-) four storeys high which has been greatly modified with a later building attached to the E side of the tower. The bawn wall (int. dims 12.85m E-W; 44m N-S) has also been modified on the SW angle where an 18th-century square flanking tower and outhouses were inserted. Originally the bawn ran northwards from the NW angle of the tower returning eastwards then returning southwards then westwards and then northwards where it joined the tower at the SW angle. Three original flanking towers survive along with the wall walk. Probably dating to the period of rebuilding after the castle was destroyed by the Elizabethan army in 1595 (JRSAI 1862, 188-9). 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

• Cloghan Castle, castle/fortified house, 1650–1850 · National interest
  Description

  Detached tower house, c.1630, with three-bay three-storey addition to east, c.1820, and extensions to rear. Located adjacent to the River Shannon amongst mature woods. Pitched slate roof hidden behind castellated parapet. Modern reconstruction of castellation to tower house, formerly two crowstepped gables. Rendered walls with machicolations and bartizans to tower house. Square-headed window openings to addition. Pointed-arched and square-headed window openings to tower house with label stops and hoodmouldings. House enclosed by bawn wall with castellated towers and entrance tower with segmental-headed opening and timber double doors. Walled garden to south and south-east of house.

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 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 Cloghan Demesne.

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 Cloghan Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Cloghan Demesne · An Clochán

Area

2,812,658 m² (281.27 ha, 695.02 acres)

Civil parish

Lusmagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Lusmagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lusmagh electoral division: 548 people in 193 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyea (Co. Tipperary), Cloghan Beg, Clonahenoge, Coolross (Co. Tipperary), Glenduff, Gortanisky, Gortnacrannagh, Gortskeha, Kilmochonna, Redwood (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Cloghan Demesne 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.