# Cuba, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Reynagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cúba. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 415,421 m² (41.54 ha, 102.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,414 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Reynagh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/reynagh.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Banagher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Banagher electoral division: 2,215 people in 802 households; 65% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41159 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180524 - Centre: latitude 53.19112, longitude -7.97098 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuba, from 232 m² to 57,108 m² (5.71 ha, 14.11 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 292107: 57,108 m² (5.71 ha, 14.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292107.md - Parcel 293398: 51,048 m² (5.1 ha, 12.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293398.md - Parcel 293104: 39,316 m² (3.93 ha, 9.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293104.md - Parcel 291957: 31,745 m² (3.17 ha, 7.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291957.md - Parcel 277508: 30,022 m² (3 ha, 7.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277508.md - Parcel 271414: 29,752 m² (2.98 ha, 7.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271414.md - Parcel 2388000: 27,913 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388000.md - Parcel 297787: 25,308 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297787.md - Parcel 279164: 22,220 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279164.md - Parcel 304890: 21,534 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304890.md - Parcel 5124371: 18,265 m² (1.83 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5124371.md - Parcel 299756: 10,561 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299756.md - Parcel 302437: 6,542 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302437.md - Parcel 299260: 3,244 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299260.md - Parcel 277934: 3,037 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277934.md - Parcel 2388293: 2,597 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388293.md - Parcel 297696: 2,564 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297696.md - Parcel 297427: 2,421 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297427.md - Parcel 5973071: 2,414 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5973071.md - Parcel 306959: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306959.md - Parcel 5624677: 2,249 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5624677.md - Parcel 5969837: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5969837.md - Parcel 278885: 1,901 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/278885.md - Parcel 280245: 1,813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/280245.md - Parcel 307482: 1,672 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307482.md - Parcel 291535: 1,570 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291535.md - Parcel 289210: 1,193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/289210.md - Parcel 2498403: 1,048 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2498403.md - Parcel 278503: 937 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/278503.md - Parcel 4904250: 844 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904250.md - Parcel 2541403: 776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2541403.md - Parcel 312812: 592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/312812.md - Parcel 310056: 536 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310056.md - Parcel 306603: 521 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306603.md - Parcel 311858: 441 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311858.md - Parcel 310799: 441 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310799.md - Parcel 5674200: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5674200.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 13 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=3 - G5 Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=6 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 2 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2545: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH AND THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH, ALL INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS, DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2545/0 - 19 Mar 2025, Offaly County Council 2528: Conditional. Permission. THE INSTALLATION OF 6NO. 20M HIGH FLOOD LIGHTING COLUMNS WHICH WILL ACCOMMODATE A TOTAL OF 42NO. 1.5KW LED FLOODLIGHTS, A 150KVA GENERATOR, UNDERGROUND SERVICE DUCTING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR THE TRAINING PITCH TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE GROUNDS OF ST RYNAGHS HURLING CLUB. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2528/0 - 7 Feb 2022, Offaly County Council 2239: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (A) EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE, (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT NEW EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUNGALOW, NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FUEL STORE, (C) PERMISSION TO UNDERTAKE CONSERVATION REPAIR WORKS TO EXISTING GATE ENTRANCE [PROTECTED STRUCTURE]. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2239/0 - 31 Dec 2021, Offaly County Council 21818: N/a. Retention. EXISTING GARAGE, NEW EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUNGALOW, NEW GARAGE AND FUEL STORE, AND CONSERVATION REPAIR WORKS TO EXISTING GATE ENTRANCE (PROTECTED STRUCTURE). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21818/0 - 9 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21195: Conditional. Permission. AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DRESSING ROOMS LOCATED BENEATH THE STAND, INCORPORATING AN INJURY TREATMENT ROOM, TOILET WITH DISABLED ACCESS, PLANT ROOM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21195/0 - 17 Oct 2018, Offaly County Council 18452: N/a. Permission. EXTENSIONS AND RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY CLUBHOUSE, CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING SQUASH COURT FROM A SINGLE STOREY STRUCTURE TO A TWO STOREY STRUCTURE COMPRISING TRAINING FACILITIES ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND A MEETING ROOM ON THE FIRST FLOOR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. THE OVERALL HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING SQUASH COURT WILL NOT BE ALTERED. PART OF THE CLUBHOUSE EXTENSION WILL COMPRISE ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR THE FIRST FLOOR MEETING ROOM BY ADDITION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE CLUBHOUSE, INCREASING ITS OVERALL HEIGHT TO THAT OF THE EXISTING SQUASH COURT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18452/0 - 10 Sept 2018, Offaly County Council 18388: Conditional. Outline permission. NEW ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROADWAY, CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE DWELLING & DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO MAINS PUBLIC SERVICES ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18388/0 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 Cuba. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF021-008: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF021-008----. Large U-plan early 18th-century two storey house over a basement with three adjoining pedimented breakfront elevations, two of five bays the other of seven. The longer of two fronts had a pedimented breakfront over a venetian window with pedimented doorcase. The shorter W elevation has a pedimented breakfront three bays wide with oculus in pediment and pedimented doorcase while the S elevation has a single bay pedimented breakfront with venetian window at first floor level. Large high pitched gabled roof with two tall central chimney stacks. (Bence-Jones 1978, 96) Cuba Court, possibly designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce is believed to have been built by the Fraser family in the early eighteenth century. It was a residence of the Daly family by the late eighteenth century and became a school in the early nineteenth century. Unroofed in the 1940's, less than two complete walls of this once splendid house remained standing when last recorded in 1976 and it has since been completely bulldozed. Cuba was a large U-plan two storey over basement house with a pedimented breakfront elevation, the most impressive of was the S elevation with its doorcase of Michaelangelesque derivation and quasi-Venetian tripartite window above at first floor level. The shorter W elevation contained an oculus and pedimented doorcase. One of the dominant features of the building was the massive cornice which crowned three sides and most of the fourth side. The house was hip roofed; the slopes of the roof draining directly to the cornice and it had two tall central chimney stacks. There was a sttep gable at the back of the building and although provision was made for a circular staircase opening E off the S hall, it appears never to have been constructed (Bence-Jones 1978, 96). An archaeological assessment under licence no. 03E1915 of the proposed development of four dwellings and ancillary works at Cuba Avenue, Banagher, Co. Offaly, was carried out. The development was within the zone of archaeological potential for an enclosure site and near SMR 21:8, the site of Cuba Court, an early 18th-century country house. Extensive testing of the proposed site was carried out. No finds or features of archaeological significance were uncovered. The testing of the proposed route of the service trenches uncovered the line of the raised gravel drive into Cuba Court. No other features of architectural significance were uncovered (Excavations Bulletin 2003). Daniel Noonan, The Archaeology Company, Birr Technology Centre, Mill Island, Birr, Co. Offaly. Archaeological testing of the area around the house in April 2005 (Excavation Licence No. 05E0403) revealed several sub-surface features associated with Cuba Court. Three trenches (Nos 4-6) to the S of Cuba House identified the driveways of both the main house, and the present standing structure to the E. A single trench (No. 7) to the W of the house revealed the gravel courtyard as well as formal garden features also to the W and N of the house. Three other trenches (nos. 8-11) to the N of Cuba Court revealed features relating to a formal garden layout N of the house. 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: 27 April 2009 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) - Cuba Court, school, 1700–1750, Regional interest, registry number 14810035, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14810035. Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey school house, built c.1720. Now disused. Set within the former demesne of Cuba Court. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, round-headed door opening and carriage arch opening. Site accessed through stone gate piers with cast-iron gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1556, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1556.zip (ZIP). - 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/cuba.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cuba.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cuba.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cuba 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) - Cummeen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cummeen.md - Curraghavarna and Portavolla: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curraghavarna-and-portavolla.md - Feeghs: https://everytownland.com/offaly/feeghs.md - Mullaghakaraun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mullaghakaraun.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/cuba - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/cuba