Down

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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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.

• 27 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20395

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  RECONSTRUCTION AND EXTENSION OF KITCHEN/DINING ROOM AND CONSTRUCTION OF CONSERVATORY. THIS IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20103

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A STRAW BASED CATTLE SHED AND DUNGSTEAD AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18449

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION SYSTEM, ENTRANCE, GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18341

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: Raheen Lough 000917

Recorded monuments

• OF026-031 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  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

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, low (inferred), 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 · Dún na hEidhní

Area

797,468 m² (79.75 ha, 197.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykean, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Clonygowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonygowan electoral division: 727 people in 233 households; 90% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanvilla, Ballinvoher, Gorteenard, Raheen, Sranure

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.