Cloghmoyle

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghmoyle, from 221 m² to 217,978 m² (21.8 ha, 53.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Sept 2024Conditional

  existing extensions to the original dwelling house.

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460346

• 4 Jun 2024Conditional

  AMENDMENTS TO SITE BOUNDARIES WITH THE RELOCATION OF DWELLING, GARAGE AND SITE ENTRANCE, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 24/15

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2468

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2415

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION TO FRONT OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23244

• 12 Apr 2023N/a

  EXTENSION TO FRONT OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23162

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  STABLES INCLUDING GENERAL AGRICULTURAL STORAGE, MACHINERY SHED, DUNGSTEAD, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21638

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: Sharavogue Bog SAC 000585
• Natural Heritage Area: Cangort Bog NHA 000890

Recorded monuments

• OF042-024 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  Situated on top of a steep hill overlooking the village of Shinrone with site of medieval church (OF042-026----) to N. Mistakenly identified by T. L. Cooke in 1875 as the remains of a possible castle in the 19th century. This structure appears to be the remains of an 18th century folly standing on top of a steep hill at the western end of the village of Shinrone [insert photo]. This folly known as Oldhams Tower overlooks the site of the medieval church of Shinrone that was situated 180m to the north. In the 19th century this castle was in the centre of a walled garden to the rear of a house then in the ownership of George Percy Poe. This building is depicted on the 1838-40 OS 6” map as 'Oldhams Tower' [insert 1st ed. OS 6-inch map]. Only one castle is shown on the 1654 Down Survey parish map of Shinrone which traditionally has been identified as the castle in the centre of the village which suggests that the structure at Cloghmoyle was subsequently constructed in the second half of the 17th century or more likely in the 18th century. This building or watch-tower was described by Sir Charles Coote in 1801 as 'At Shinrone are vestiges of some places of considerable strength, with the ruins of a watch-tower on an artificial eminence, at some distance, but I cannot learn any historical tradition of it; and in the neighbourhood are also strong circular buildings, all situate on gravelly hills, which are rapidly undermining; they were converted into cock-pits long since, but all are now in ruins'. Pre-development testing was carried out under licence no. 04E0883 at a development site in the townland of Cloghmoyle, Shinrone, Co. Offaly. The greenfield site is close to a fortified house (SMR 42:24), listed as 'Oldham's Tower' on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837). It lies west of the site of a 16th-century castle (SMR 42:25) and south-east of the site of a medieval church (SMR 42:26). The immediate landscape is dominated by a number of high eskers, some of which show signs of quarrying. The proposed development comprises the construction of two detached dwellings and twelve semi-detached dwellings and associated ancillary works. In addition, the client proposes to remove an existing walled dwelling and outhouses on the site. Seven parallel trenches (oriented northwest/south-east) were excavated. A search of the spoil material was also carried out. No archaeological material was identified. Testing showed that the south-eastern portion of the site had been disturbed considerably by quarrying. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded. Ellen O'Carroll, The Archaeology Company, 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin. 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 April 2009

Architectural heritage

• Cloghmoyle Castle, outbuilding, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ranges of multiple-bay single- and two-storey domestic outbuildings, built c.1740, to the rear site of a modernised detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey house to north. Site bounded by rendered random coursed wall. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles and stone chimneystacks. Lime washed random coursed walls with cast-iron tie-bar plates. Window openings with timber battened shutters and stone sills. Slit vents to upper storey of south range. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors and overlights to some. Segmental-headed carriage arches, some with replacement timber gates. Segmental-headed integral carriage arch in south range giving access to rear laneway. Hipped and pitched pan-tiled roof to house with roughcast render to walls and replacement windows. Rear of house faces road. Site bounded by part-rendered random coursed wall, lime-washed to interior, crenellated in parts, battered to north and buttressed to west. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to round-arched opening with limestone steps and wrought-iron railings. Round-arched vehicular gateway with corrugated-iron gate and square-headed pedestrian gate to west.

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 Cloghmoyle.

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

Name

Cloghmoyle · An Chloch Mhaol

Area

942,747 m² (94.27 ha, 232.96 acres)

Civil parish

Shinrone, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Shinrone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shinrone electoral division: 1,041 people in 391 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cangort Demesne, Gortcreen, Kilfrancis, Shinrone

Placenames

Cloghmoyle 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.