# Down, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballykean, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly; in Irish Dún na hEidhní.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 797,468 m² (79.75 ha, 197.06 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 34,148 m² (3.41 ha, 8.44 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballykean, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballykean.md
- Barony: Philipstown Upper
- Electoral division: Clonygowan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 727 people lived in 233 households in the Clonygowan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41999
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180619
- Centre: latitude 53.204803, longitude -7.308929 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Down, from 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 132,466 m² (13.25 ha, 32.73 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 312952: 132,466 m² (13.25 ha, 32.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312952.md
- Parcel 307113: 119,096 m² (11.91 ha, 29.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307113.md
- Parcel 288538: 98,127 m² (9.81 ha, 24.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288538.md
- Parcel 294217: 69,474 m² (6.95 ha, 17.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294217.md
- Parcel 295683: 67,534 m² (6.75 ha, 16.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295683.md
- Parcel 307767: 58,442 m² (5.84 ha, 14.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307767.md
- Parcel 271325: 53,067 m² (5.31 ha, 13.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271325.md
- Parcel 360546: 51,659 m² (5.17 ha, 12.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360546.md
- Parcel 282674: 41,461 m² (4.15 ha, 10.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282674.md
- Parcel 288662: 26,834 m² (2.68 ha, 6.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288662.md
- Parcel 279704: 21,362 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279704.md
- Parcel 310274: 20,813 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310274.md
- Parcel 2488251: 13,583 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488251.md
- Parcel 303902: 12,453 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303902.md
- Parcel 5538771: 4,003 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5538771.md
- Parcel 304456: 3,646 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304456.md
- Parcel 360254: 2,346 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360254.md
- Parcel 306353: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306353.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 27 Aug 2020, Offaly County Council 20395: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20395/0
- 25 Mar 2020, Offaly County Council 20103: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. RECONSTRUCTION AND EXTENSION OF KITCHEN/DINING ROOM AND CONSTRUCTION OF CONSERVATORY. THIS IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20103/0
- 16 Oct 2018, Offaly County Council 18449: Conditional. Permission. THE ERECTION OF A STRAW BASED CATTLE SHED AND DUNGSTEAD AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18449/0
- 3 Aug 2018, Offaly County Council 18341: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION SYSTEM, ENTRANCE, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18341/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Raheen Lough, site code 000917

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF026-031: Castle - motte and bailey, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF026-031----. Well preserved motte and bailey located on top of an esker ridge with good views in all directions, with early medieval church (OF026-022-----) nearby and small stream to the W. Flat topped steep sided conical shaped mound (H 7.5m; top diam 11.5m; base diam 46m) with enclosing fosse (Wth 4.6-8m; D 1m) at its base and raised rectangular shaped bailey (47m E-W; 39m N-S; H 1.5m) to the N which is enclosed by an earthen bank at N, E and W. 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 Down.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Down, 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: 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 Down.
- 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/down-180619.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/down-180619.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/down-180619.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Down 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)

- Aghanvilla: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghanvilla.md
- Ballinvoher: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballinvoher.md
- Gorteenard: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteenard.md
- Raheen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/raheen-181024.md
- Sranure: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sranure.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.

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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/down-180619
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/down-180619