# Clonshannon, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonsast, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cluain Seanáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,308,773 m² (330.88 ha, 817.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,735 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonsast, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/clonsast.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Bracknagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,141 people lived in 381 households in the Bracknagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41633 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180432 - Centre: latitude 53.234141, longitude -7.152483 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonshannon, from 1,936 m² to 2,332,110 m² (233.21 ha, 576.28 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4648946: 2,332,110 m² (233.21 ha, 576.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648946.md - Parcel 296399: 292,895 m² (29.29 ha, 72.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296399.md - Parcel 4649058: 195,911 m² (19.59 ha, 48.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649058.md - Parcel 4649176: 188,606 m² (18.86 ha, 46.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649176.md - Parcel 307348: 89,532 m² (8.95 ha, 22.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307348.md - Parcel 307118: 58,075 m² (5.81 ha, 14.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307118.md - Parcel 290871: 36,254 m² (3.63 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290871.md - Parcel 270207: 24,966 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270207.md - Parcel 288672: 23,735 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288672.md - Parcel 312074: 15,516 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312074.md - Parcel 310101: 14,198 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310101.md - Parcel 296533: 11,052 m² (1.11 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296533.md - Parcel 312956: 8,933 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312956.md - Parcel 274553: 4,810 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274553.md - Parcel 279770: 4,621 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279770.md - Parcel 271115: 3,900 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271115.md - Parcel 298031: 1,936 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298031.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Clonshannon 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) No planning application touches the townland of Clonshannon in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Clonshannon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF027-006: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF027-006----. Located on flat pasture land with bog to the N and St. Broghan's church (OF027-008----) nearby. Over the well there is a modern stone built cover with a statue of St. Broghan standing inside this house like structure. There are several hawthorn bushes beside the well all of which is enclosed by an irregular shape concrete wall. Associated with St. Broghan whose feast day is the 4th of December (Comerford 1883, 124-6). In 1934 the National Schools Survey of Holy Wells recorded that this pattern ‘is one of the most ancient in Ireland having been in existence over nine hundred years. It was suppressed about eighty years ago. A very beautiful and very ancient litany of the B.V.M. composed by Saint Brochan is recited at the well. The pattern was resuscitated by the Revd. J. Breen C.C. Clonbulloge in 1926’ (NFC 468, 141). In 1934 it was recorded in a local newspaper that ‘over 1,500 people attended the annual Pattern of St. Brochan, Clonsast, Offaly on Sunday’ (ibid.). According to this report the pattern ‘attracts large numbers annually from all the surrounding counties. The Rosary having been recited at the holy well, and the ancient Litany of the Blessed Virgin, composed by St. Brochan, an aeridheacht, followed by football and camogie matches and a boxing exhibition by the Portarlington Boxing Club was held. The Wolf Tone pipe and drum band, Carbury, was present’ (ibid.). The well was described in 1934 as ‘there is a protecting concrete wall around the well and the wall is surmounted by barbed wire. It was erected about 1925 by James Dunne, Clonsast, a hood was erected over the well in 1927 by Revd. James Breen C. C. Clonbulloge. Last Sunday in June pattern is held there; people visit the well at other times also’ (NFC 468, 147). People used the water from the well for bodily ailments and cures such as stammering and leave stones, pennies, clothes, pins and pebbles at the well. Offerings were placed on a specially constructed ledge within the well near the top. Bits of beads, bits of brooches, bits of ribbons and pins are placed by some on the white thorn. They are affixed last Sunday in June (ibid., 150). 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: 18 December 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonshannon. ## 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 Clonshannon, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonshannon. - 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/clonshannon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonshannon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonshannon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Clonshannon 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) - Bunnagappagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bunnagappagh.md - Clonavoe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonavoe.md - Clonsast Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonsast-upper.md - Coolagary: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolagary.md - Nahana: https://everytownland.com/offaly/nahana.md - Raheenakeeran: https://everytownland.com/offaly/raheenakeeran.md - Walshisland: https://everytownland.com/offaly/walshisland.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/clonshannon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/clonshannon