Danganreagh

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Danganreagh, from 1,569 m² to 334,776 m² (33.48 ha, 82.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Danganreagh 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 Danganreagh 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Danganreagh.

Recorded monuments

• OF043-025 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Situated on flat land in undulating countryside, 100m NW of Moatland Cottage. Present remains consist of a nearly square shaped platform (dims. 18.5m N-S x 17m E-W; ext. H 0.7m) with slightly domed interior. No outer fosse or entrance feature visible. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Depicted as a square-shaped copse of trees on the 1838 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Described in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books of 1838-40 as to the N of Moatland Cottage are '2 moats or enclosures of plantations, from which it has very probably derived its name' (OSFNB 1838-40). This earthwork was probably a landscape feature or tree-ring of post-1700 date associated with nearby Moatland Cottage. 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/revision: 04 January 2012

• OF043-026001 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a hill in undulating countryside, 165m ENE of Moatland Cottage. Depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular mound planted with trees with traces of an enclosing fosse around the base of the mound from E through S to SW. On the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map only a section of this fosse on the SE side of the mound is depicted suggesting that the rest of the fosse had been filled in by this date. Present remains consist of a flat-topped circular earthwork (diam 35m; ext. H 4.5m) the perimeter of which supports trees. Although the site has the appearance of a motte, it lacks evidence for enclosing defences, although these appear to have been field in as the fosse depicted on the OS 6-inch maps is no longer visible. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books of 1838-40 recorded that to the N of Moatland Cottage are, '2 moats or enclosures of plantations, from which it has very probably derived its name' (OSNB 1838-40). This possible motte may have been reused as a landscape feature when it was planted with trees by the occupants of Moatland Cottage. Described by Cunningham as a motte which may have been a burial mound or some earlier fortification of pre-Norman date (Cunningham 1987, 129). 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/revision: 4 January 2012

• OF043-026002 Souterrain
  Description

  No surface remains visible of any souterrain in vicinity of possible motte or mound at Danganreagh (OF043-026001-). Classification of a souterrain is based on local information from residents of Danganreagh House who stated that an underground passage was discovered in the mound in the 19th century (Cunningham 1987, 129). 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

Architectural heritage

• Danganreagh House, farm house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse, built c.1840, in front of an earlier two-storey farmhouse. House is flanked by squared limestone walls with carriage-arch openings and pedestrian gateways accessing partially cobbled rear yard. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and bracketed eaves to main house. Pitched slate and tiled roof with some cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks to rear section. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills and timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by decorative sidelights and with teardrop fanlight with stained and etched glass. Tooled stone threshold. Modern concrete porch to door. Front site enclosed by wrought-iron railings and accessed through wrought-iron gates. Ranges of stone outbuildings and stables enclose rear yard. Walled garden to south of house.

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

At the centre of the townland of Danganreagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Danganreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Danganreagh · Daingean Riacháin

Area

352,870 m² (35.29 ha, 87.2 acres)

Civil parish

Aghancon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

371 people lived in 144 households in the Aghancon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghody, Ballybritt, Fancroft, Glascloon

Placenames

Danganreagh 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.