Cumber Upper

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cumber Upper, from 1,238 m² to 598,182 m² (59.82 ha, 147.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cumber Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cumber Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412

Recorded monuments

• OF036-063 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the site of a raised terraced area on the side of a hill presumably to create a level platform for a house of post-1700 date. Of doubtful antiquity. 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 May 2011

• OF036-065 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Site of a holy well dedicated to St Finan of Kinnitty, which has been recently restored by a local stonemason who built a stone canopy over the well. Located beside the well is a large bullaun stone (OF036-065001-) with two deep circular depressions on its surface. This bullaun stone was found in the nearby fields and placed beside the well a couple of years ago. 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 May 2011

• OF036-065001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Site of a holy well (OF036-065) which has been recently restored by a local stonemason who built a stone canopy over the well. Located beside the well is a large bullaun stone with two deep circular depressions on its surface. This bullaun stone was found in the nearby fields and placed beside the well a couple of years ago. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-014 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a low hillock in upland area with good views in all directions. Circular flat topped mound (top diam. 6.4m; base diam. 13m; ext. H 2m) enclosed by a wide flat bottomed fosse (Wth 2m; ext. H 2m) with possible external bank. Large cavity on top of mound due to modern disturbance. Large boulder beside cavity may be result of field clearance/disturbance. 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 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cumber Upper.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cumber Upper.

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

Name

Cumber Upper · An Comar Uachtarach

Area

2,369,243 m² (236.92 ha, 585.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kinnitty, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Kinnitty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinnitty electoral division: 596 people in 207 households; 75% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacmurragh, Barcam, Cumber Lower, Forelacka, Glenafelly

Placenames

Cumber Upper 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.