# Cumber Upper, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kinnitty, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Comar Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,369,243 m² (236.92 ha, 585.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 129,828 m² (12.98 ha, 32.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kinnitty, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kinnitty.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Kinnitty, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41432 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180529 - Centre: latitude 53.071674, longitude -7.697795 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cumber Upper, from 1,238 m² to 598,182 m² (59.82 ha, 147.81 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 279900: 598,182 m² (59.82 ha, 147.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279900.md - Parcel 277749: 536,098 m² (53.61 ha, 132.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277749.md - Parcel 296866: 494,403 m² (49.44 ha, 122.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296866.md - Parcel 5352970: 434,052 m² (43.41 ha, 107.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5352970.md - Parcel 275970: 182,465 m² (18.25 ha, 45.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275970.md - Parcel 282068: 77,190 m² (7.72 ha, 19.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282068.md - Parcel 307751: 20,309 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307751.md - Parcel 5352979: 17,040 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5352979.md - Parcel 275971: 16,002 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275971.md - Parcel 5352969: 1,238 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5352969.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Cumber Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412 - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF036-063: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-063----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-065----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-065001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-014----. 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 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 Cumber Upper. ## 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 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, 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/cumber-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cumber-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cumber-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymacmurragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymacmurragh.md - Barcam: https://everytownland.com/offaly/barcam.md - Cumber Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cumber-lower.md - Forelacka: https://everytownland.com/offaly/forelacka.md - Glenafelly: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenafelly.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/cumber-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/cumber-upper