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

Townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Uí Dhrochtaigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,165,765 m² (116.58 ha, 288.07 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,070 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumcullen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/drumcullen.md
- Barony: Eglish
- Electoral division: Knockbarron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 223 people lived in 71 households in the Knockbarron electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41448
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180623
- Centre: latitude 53.109049, longitude -7.757977 (WGS 84)

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

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Droughtville, from 70 m² to 141,524 m² (14.15 ha, 34.97 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 299611: 141,524 m² (14.15 ha, 34.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299611.md
- Parcel 4909494: 134,417 m² (13.44 ha, 33.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4909494.md
- Parcel 313865: 85,608 m² (8.56 ha, 21.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313865.md
- Parcel 293181: 78,708 m² (7.87 ha, 19.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293181.md
- Parcel 283383: 78,411 m² (7.84 ha, 19.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283383.md
- Parcel 310079: 41,502 m² (4.15 ha, 10.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310079.md
- Parcel 306939: 40,164 m² (4.02 ha, 9.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306939.md
- Parcel 282061: 39,324 m² (3.93 ha, 9.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282061.md
- Parcel 282316: 37,227 m² (3.72 ha, 9.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282316.md
- Parcel 5461455: 34,395 m² (3.44 ha, 8.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5461455.md
- Parcel 274740: 30,559 m² (3.06 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274740.md
- Parcel 271506: 29,435 m² (2.94 ha, 7.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271506.md
- Parcel 313255: 20,973 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313255.md
- Parcel 5461432: 13,095 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5461432.md
- Parcel 5297888: 11,045 m² (1.1 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297888.md
- Parcel 303662: 8,499 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303662.md
- Parcel 296955: 8,325 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296955.md
- Parcel 310976: 5,626 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310976.md
- Parcel 275328: 5,363 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275328.md
- Parcel 286961: 3,620 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286961.md
- Parcel 287940: 3,370 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287940.md
- Parcel 287801: 3,171 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287801.md
- Parcel 285291: 3,156 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285291.md
- Parcel 284286: 1,618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/284286.md
- Parcel 271578: 1,331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/271578.md
- Parcel 307450: 1,149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307450.md
- Parcel 4904360: 564 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904360.md
- Parcel 4904356: 70 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904356.md

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

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.

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

4 applications, newest first.

- 12 Jan 2024, Offaly County Council 2460006: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460006/0
- 22 Dec 2023, Offaly County Council 2360251: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360251/0
- 22 Jun 2020, Offaly County Council 20228: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20228/0
- 7 Apr 2017, Offaly County Council 17120: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. (B) EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED. PERMISSION FOR (A) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC SPACE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17120/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

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

- OF036-023: Barrow - stepped barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-023----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-024----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-082----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF036-086----. 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

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)

- Heath Lodge, house, 1800–1830, Regional interest, registry number 14936005, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14936005. 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.

## 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 Droughtville, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/droughtville.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/droughtville.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/droughtville.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Droughtville 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)

- Cloghanmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghanmore.md
- Coagh Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coagh-upper.md
- Knockbarron: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockbarron.md
- Kyle: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kyle.md
- Pass: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pass.md
- Streamstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/streamstown-181107.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/droughtville
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