Down

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Down, from 103 m² to 120,269 m² (12.03 ha, 29.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Down 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.

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  PL2/20/34 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VECHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Offaly County Council, EX25011

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20581

• 10 Feb 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VECHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2034

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  (A) RETENTION FOR FOUNDATION STRUCTURE & PERMISSION FOR CHANGES TO SAME (B) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (i) 1 NO. NEW DORMER TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (ii) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (iii) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (iv) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (v) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18581

• 2 Oct 2018N/a

  (A) 1 NO. NEW DORMER TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18420

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. BUNGALOW WITH GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17178

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF010-028 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Large flat-topped mound (H. c. 3.5m, diam. at top 26m E-W) situated in low lying area, almost circular platform cut away slightly at NW. Not enclosed by outer defences except a possible slight bank N through to SE. 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

• OF010-029 Enclosure
  Description

  No evidence of an archaeological site, appears to be a natural rise possibly an old field enclosure. Potential enclosure identified from aerial photograph taken in 1973 (GSI, N 547/6). 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

• OF010-058 Mound
  Description

  Almost circular flat-topped mound (H 2-2.5m, max base diam. c. 28m N-S, c. 11m at top) composed of earth and stone. Possibly a tumulus as shown on aerial photo (GSI N 547/546) but not previously recorded. Situated on flat low-lying land with platform ringfort (OF010-028----) to the SE. Small circular mound (diam 32m E-W; 30m N-S) with rounded top with no evidence of an enclosing fosse or external bank. Possible burial mound. 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 Down.

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 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 Down.

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

Name

Down · Domhain

Area

1,800,699 m² (180.07 ha, 444.96 acres)

Civil parish

Killaderry, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Lower

Electoral division

Mountbriscoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountbriscoe electoral division: 268 people in 82 households; 96% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Clonearl Demesne, Coole, Gorteen, Grovesend, Killeshil, Mullalough or Cavemount

Placenames

Down 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.