Droughtville

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Droughtville, from 70 m² to 141,524 m² (14.15 ha, 34.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Droughtville 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.

• 12 Jan 2024Conditional

  AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING; DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING FRONT AND REAR FLAT ROOF EXTENSIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR A NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED PERCOLATION AREA, RELOCATION OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460006

• 22 Dec 2023N/a

  AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING; DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING FRONT AND REAR FLAT ROOF EXTENSIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR A NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED PERCOLATION AREA, RELOCATION OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360251

• 22 Jun 2020N/a

  THE WIDENING OF AN EXISTING ENTRANCE, AND REPLACEMENT OF FARMTRACK WITH A HARD SURFACE ROADWAY THROUGH THE LAND OF APPROXIMATELY 840M. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE DEMOLISHING OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BARN AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT AGRICULTURAL BARN OF SIMILAR SIZE AND HEIGHT

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20228

• 7 Apr 2017Conditional

  (B) EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED. PERMISSION FOR (A) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC SPACE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 17120

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 Droughtville.

Recorded monuments

• OF036-023 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  No surface remains of mound situated on flat pastureland at the base of an esker ridge which has been partially quarried away in recent times. Depicted as a small enclosure on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps. This feature is depicted as a landscaped feature rather than as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map this monument is depicted as a small enclosure 20m to the N of a family vault located in a demesne woodland associated with nearby Droughtville House. The monument is depicted differently on the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map. On this map the monument is shown as a small mound standing on a wide berm with a similar plan to a stepped-barrow. A second enclosure or small mound (OF036-024----) is depicted 71m to the SE. It is possible that the monument was re-used when it was landscaped in the 18th/19th century. This possible monument is located on the demesne woodland associated with Droughtville House located 730m to the SW. Alternatively this feature may have been built as a landscape feature in the 18th/19th century by the occupants of Droughtville House. 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011

• OF036-024 Mound
  Description

  Small flat topped mound (H 2m; top diam 4m) located in dense forest which is difficult to examine as a result. No other features visible. 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

• OF036-082 Mound
  Description

  Located on top of an esker ridge running in an E-W direction. Site consists of a large flt-topped earthen mound (Top diam. 3m; base diam. 12m; H 2m) with cut stone protruding from S face of mound. Cut stone appears to be 18th or 19th century in date. There is a tradition of a 19th century burial on top of this 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

• OF036-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in grassland with good views in all directions. Possible ringfort (approx. int. diam. 50m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph as a circular-shaped area defined by an earthen bank with external fosse best preserved at SW. On Google Earth imagery dating from 2017 indicates that the E side of the monument has been levelled possibly as a result of ploughing. Cultivation ridges running E-W across the interior of the monument are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey Date of upload: 3 August 2018

Architectural heritage

• Heath Lodge, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey over raised basement house, built 1810, with earlier four-bay two-storey house, c.1750, incorporated to the rear. Entrance porch added to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rain water goods. Half-hipped to earlier house. Roughcast rendered walls with stone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sash window. Enlarged basement window openings to north-facing side elevation with timber casement windows. Timber panelled and glazed entrance porch with decorative bargeboards with round-headed door opening, timber panelled double door and bat wing fanlight within. Door accessed up seven stone steps. Two-storey outbuildings and stables to rear yard with hipped and pitched slate roofs, roughcast rendered stone walls and square-headed and carriage arch window and door openings. Entrance to south of house comprised square-profile sandstone piers flanked by quadrant walls. Entrance to north-east of house comprises hexagonal-profile sandstone piers supporting cast-iron double gates with acanthus finials. Derelict gable-fronted gate lodge within entrance gates with triangular-arched door opening with sidelights and remains of decorative tracery to fanlight.

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 moderately low, 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 Droughtville.

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

Name

Droughtville · Baile Uí Dhrochtaigh

Area

1,165,765 m² (116.58 ha, 288.07 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Knockbarron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockbarron electoral division: 223 people in 71 households; 91% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghanmore, Coagh Upper, Knockbarron, Kyle, Pass, Streamstown

Placenames

Droughtville 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.