# Cortullagh or Grove, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Chorr Chealgach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 774,306 m² (77.43 ha, 191.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,533 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Cloghan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41200 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180511 - Centre: latitude 53.2193, longitude -7.843497 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cortullagh or Grove, from 710 m² to 107,136 m² (10.71 ha, 26.47 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 281673: 107,136 m² (10.71 ha, 26.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281673.md - Parcel 307486: 99,601 m² (9.96 ha, 24.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307486.md - Parcel 308923: 97,223 m² (9.72 ha, 24.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308923.md - Parcel 279681: 95,760 m² (9.58 ha, 23.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279681.md - Parcel 4738265: 91,546 m² (9.15 ha, 22.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738265.md - Parcel 305272: 44,960 m² (4.5 ha, 11.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305272.md - Parcel 4648328: 43,223 m² (4.32 ha, 10.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648328.md - Parcel 294186: 33,927 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294186.md - Parcel 274529: 24,762 m² (2.48 ha, 6.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274529.md - Parcel 305851: 15,309 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305851.md - Parcel 273560: 14,731 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273560.md - Parcel 4624543: 12,570 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4624543.md - Parcel 291063: 12,369 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291063.md - Parcel 298155: 9,209 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298155.md - Parcel 271280: 7,856 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271280.md - Parcel 5537889: 7,154 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537889.md - Parcel 272166: 6,566 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272166.md - Parcel 311025: 6,130 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311025.md - Parcel 275542: 4,715 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275542.md - Parcel 311864: 4,611 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311864.md - Parcel 284443: 3,351 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284443.md - Parcel 4667695: 3,315 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4667695.md - Parcel 4715968: 3,275 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4715968.md - Parcel 360098: 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360098.md - Parcel 271418: 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271418.md - Parcel 303549: 1,935 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/303549.md - Parcel 307886: 911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307886.md - Parcel 5502285: 710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5502285.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cortullagh or Grove 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. - 25 Sept 2026, Offaly County Council 2660509: N/a. Permission. • A battery energy storage system (BESS) facility, comprising battery containers with integrated heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) units, transformers, inverters, underground cabling, associated control rooms, internal access routes, lighting, CCTV, lightning masts, fencing;• An associated Electrical Compound consisting of: o A low voltage operations compound including one single storey control and operational building, o Electrical plant and equipment, o Cabling, lighting, CCTV, lightning masts; o A backup diesel generator and diesel storage tank; and o Operations and maintenance storage containers. • A high voltage electrical yard comprising outdoor electrical plant and associated infrastructure; • An underground high voltage electrical cable to facilitate a connection to the existing adjacent Stonestown 110kV substation, with an over the fence connection representing the preferred connection strategy; •A peat and spoil area for excavated peat generated during construction of the Proposed Development. Materials stored within the peat and spoil area will be retained within the Proposed Development over its operational lifetime; •Associated landscaping, drainage, and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the construction, operation and maintenance of the Proposed Development; •Construction of 1 no. Temporary Construction Compound with associated temporary site offices, staff parking area, welfare facilities, and security fencing; •Ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction and operation of the Proposed Development; •A planning permission duration of 10 years from the date of grant for construction of the Proposed Development; and•An anticipated operational life of 35 years from the date of commissioning of the entire Proposed Development. Certain details of the Proposed Development are unconfirmed in the planning application, and an opinion on unconfirmed details from Offaly County Council pursuant to Section 32H(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) accompanies this planning application. The details unconfirmed in this application are battery height, length and number of battery containers. The range of parameters under which the battery storage will fall are specified in the design flexibility opinion that accompanies this application. The planning application is also accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660509/0 - 27 Oct 2021, Offaly County Council 21668: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF THE FORMER GARAGE AND FOR THE RETENTION OF THE ADDITIONAL HARD STANDING PROVIDED FOR PARKING. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE BEDROOM, SINGLE STOREY MODULAR DWELLING FOR THE USE OF PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE PROVISION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVICE THIS BUILDING AND THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21668/0 - 29 Sept 2021, Offaly County Council 21594: N/a. Retention. DEMOLITION OF THE FORMER GARAGE AND FOR THE RETENTION OF THE ADDITIONAL HARD STANDING PROVIDED FOR PARKING. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE BEDROOM, SINGLE STOREY MODULAR DWELLING FOR THE USE OF PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE PROVISION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVICE THIS BUILDING AND THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WORK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21594/0 - 22 Nov 2019, Offaly County Council 19555: Conditional. Permission. THE INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 8 KILOMETRES OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY LINE WITH A CAPACITY OF UP TO 38KV FROM THE PERMITTED (WIND FARM) SUBSTATION (OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANÁLA REFERENCE PL19.244053 AND OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 19/22) IN THE TOWNLAND OF STONESTOWN, COUNTY OFFALY TO THE PERMITTED DERRYCARNEY ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF LUMCLOON, COUNTY OFFALY. THE ELECTRICITY LINE WILL BE LOCATED WITHIN PRIVATE LANDS AND WITHIN THE PUBLIC ROADS NUMBERED L7009, L70091, R437, L70099 AND R357; WILL BE INSTALLED IN EXCAVATED TRENCHES OF APPROXIMATELY 1.3 METRES IN DEPTH AND WILL INCLUDE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND DUCTING, JOINT BAYS, COMMUNICATION CHAMBER BAYS, SHEATH LINK BOXES AND INSPECTION CHAMBERS; DIRECTIONAL DRILLING AT 1 NO. RAILWAY CROSSING ALONG THE L70091, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)/ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT WHCIH INCLUDES AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LIKELY EFFECTS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, AS A WHOLE AND IN COMBINATION WITH THE RELEVANT OFF-SITE OR SECONDARY DEVELOPMENTS WHICH WILL OCCUR AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED PURSUANT TO OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANÁLA REFERENCE PL19.244053 AND PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THIS PERMITTED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT, PROPOSED PURSUANT TO OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 19/404 (CURRENTLY UNDER CONSIDERATION). THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19555/0 - 9 Jan 2017, Offaly County Council 173: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. BUNGALOW DWELLING, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/173/0 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 Cortullagh or Grove. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cortullagh or Grove. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cortullagh or Grove. ## 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 Cortullagh or Grove, 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 Cortullagh or Grove. - 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/cortullagh-or-grove.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cortullagh-or-grove.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cortullagh-or-grove.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cortullagh or Grove 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) - Coolreagh or Cloghanhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolreagh-or-cloghanhill.md - Coraknock Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coraknock-glebe.md - Lumcloon: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lumcloon.md - Stonestown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/stonestown.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/cortullagh-or-grove - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/cortullagh-or-grove