Culleen
Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Coillín
- Area
- 140.1 ha
- 346 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 10,531 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Culleen, from 223 m² to 261,113 m² (26.11 ha, 64.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Culleen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Nov 2024Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460470
3 Aug 2022Refused
A 10 YEAR PERMISSION (TO CONSTRUCT DEVELOPMENT) FOR A SOLAR FARM COMPRISING THE INSTALLATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED FRAMES IN ROWS ON AN AREA OF C.83.55HA. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO COMPRISE A SINGLE STOREY ON SITE 38KV SUBSTATION WITHIN A COMPOUND, 2 NO SINGLE STORAGE CONTAINERS, 45 NO. BATTERY STORAGE CONTAINERS WITHIN A COMPOUND, 40 NO. INVERTER STATIONS, DUCTING & UNDERGROUND CABLING, PERIMETER FENCING, MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS, PROVISION OF INTERNAL ACCESS TRACKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND LANDSCAPING WORKS. THE APPLICATION SEEKS PERMISSION FOR THE SOLAR FARM TO REMAIN FOR 40 YEARS AND FOR PERMANENT PERMISSION FOR THE SUBSTATION
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22387
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Culleen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Culleen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Culleen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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 Culleen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Culleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Culleen · An Coillín
- Area
- 1,400,795 m² (140.08 ha, 346.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Durrow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Durrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Durrow electoral division: 798 people in 254 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Culleen 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.