Dungar

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dungar, from 183 m² to 490,684 m² (49.07 ha, 121.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Dungar 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.

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF FUEL GARAGE/FUEL STORE AND REFURBISHMENT TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALTERATION TO FRONT ELEVATION TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22632

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK WITH STANDARD PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21713

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR & REFURBISHMENT TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING THE DEMOLITION OF REAR EXTENSION & SHED ALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19257

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF A REAR TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CANOPY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE HOUSE, REFURBISHMENT AND ALTERATION OF THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING, UPGRADING OF EXISTING POTABLE WELL AND THE UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK TO A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES REF: RPS 62-06 AND 62-11

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18474

• 15 Oct 2018N/a

  DEMOLITION OF A REAR TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CANOPY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE HOUSE, REFURBISHMENT AND ALTERATION OF THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING, UPGRADING OF EXISTING POTABLE WELL AND THE UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK TO A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES REF: RPS 62-06 AND 62-11

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18447

• 5 Oct 2018N/a

  DEMOLITION OF A REAR TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CANOPY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE HOUSE, REFURBISHMENT AND ALTERATION OF THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING, UPGRADING OF EXISTING POTABLE WELL AND THE UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK TO A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES REF: RPS 62-06 AND 62-11

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18431

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 Dungar.

Recorded monuments

• OF043-052 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in upland area. Well preserved circular tower (int. diam. 5.6m; wall T 1.1m) with second circular tower containing spiral stairs attached to the S face of the main tower which gives an unusual ground plan of two adjoining circles. All the main chambers are accessed from the spiral stairs. At second floor level there is a mural chamber which leads to a garderobe accessed from the spiral stairs, a second mural chamber and garderobe directly above at third floor level is accessed from the main chamber. The tower is constructed with uncoursed limestone rubble with evidence of a slight base batter. The main door now destroyed is located on the E face. All the floors of the tower are wooden being carried in the thickness of the wall. The windows are mainly flat headed windows with larger windows lighting the upper floors of the main chambers. The doors are all of the two centred pointed types with finely punch dressed jambs similar to Coole Castle (OF015-017----) dated 1575 and the Mint in Carlingford in Co. Louth also dated to the second half of the 16th-century. The doorway from the spiral stairs to the third floor has punch dressing in decorative patterns such as opposing triangles. There is a blocked fireplace on the N wall of the main chamber at third floor level with rectangular chimney flue at wall-walk level. The spiral stairs leads up to the wall-walk which is square in shape and carried on corbelled oversailing at the four corners of the tower. This explains the square interior plan of the third floor only which was built to carry the above wall-walk. Also at wall-walk level there is a well-preserved S gable of the original Tower house roof. Other features include a double ope garderobe chute 2.1m above ground level on the S face and two slop stones at second and third floor levels on the same face. All the architectural features along with the fine punch dressing and drafting in the margins would suggest a late 16th/early 17th-century date for the tower. Approximately 180m to the east of the tower are the grass covered wall footings of a possible circular tower house as depicted by a sappers drawing in the Cromwellian period. In the front garden of the 19th-century house are two medieval mortars each with four side lugs. Possible late medieval tower associated with 1619 plantation. 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

• OF043-052001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in upland area. Well preserved circular tower (OF043-052) with second circular tower containing spiral stairs attached to the S face of the main tower which gives an unusual ground plan of two adjoining circles. In the adjoining walled courtyard tot he E of the castle are the low wall footings of a levelled bawn that are contemporary with the circular tower house. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF043-053 Standing stone
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted on 1840 edition of OS 6-inch map as 'Standing Stone'. 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

• OF043-054 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  Situated on a slight ridge in upland area. Circular platform (diam 31m N-S; ext. H 1.75m) enclosed by a wide flat bottomed water filled fosse (Wth 12.5m), earthen bank (Wth 4.6m; ext. H 2m; int. H 1m) and external fosse (Wth 7m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 4.6m) at W. Field fence runs across interior from E to W. Traces of possible stone wall enclosing platform area. Presence of wide water filled fosse may indicate medieval date. 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

• OF043-075 Standing stone
  Description

  Located on top of low rise of ground in undulating countryside region with good extensive views in all directions. Nearby ringwork (OF043-054----) located approximately 130m to the S. In pasture, located beside a metalled farm road which leads up to old farmhouse to NW of standing stone. Nearby ringwork located on lower wet unreclaimed pasture. Ringwork may be an example of a re-used burial mound of the ring-barrow class and standing stone may form part of a ritual landscape. Present remains consist of a tall narrow standing stone (H 2m; 0.40m x 0.25m) of conglomerate sandstone set into a shallow depression with some evidence of packing stones around its base. It’s long axis is orientated E-W and is rectangular in plan. Appears to have been re-used as a scratching post by cattle. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 09 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• Dungar Cemetery, graveyard/cemetery, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Dungar cemetery, opened in 1894, enclosed by random coursed wall, with gate lodge and with central path dividing cemetery in two. L-plan lodge to south-west corner with gabled entrance porch. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows, labels and stone sills. Pointed-arched window opening to entrance porch with intersecting tracery. Pointed-arched door opening with timber panelled door. Cemetery serviced by paths and contains variety of grave markers and mausoleum. Commemorative plaque records the opening of the cemetery in 1894 by Right Rev. P.J. McRedmond, Bishop of Killaloe. Cemetery accessed through cast-iron double gates supported by ashlar limestone piers and flanked by pedestrian gates.

• Dungar House, country house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement country house in the Italianate style, built in 1839, by Thomas A. Cobden, architect, with portico to entrance and bow to south-facing side elevation. Two-storey five-bay range to north. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, open eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled and lined rendered walls with sandstone dressings including plinth, quoins and string courses. Square-headed window openings with sandstone architrave surrounds and timber sash windows. Rusticated ashlar portico with arched-openings contains round-headed door opening with sandstone surround, timber panelled double door and glazed fanlight. Door accessed up six sandstone steps. Walled garden to north-west of house.

• Dungar House, gate lodge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-bay two-storey gate lodge to Dungar House, built c.1864, with arched veranda to front elevation. Located adjacent to the former entrance gates to Dungar House. Pitched tiled roof with brick corbelled eaves, yellow brick chimneystacks. Squared limestone walls with tooled limestone plinth and quoins. Round-headed window openings with roll moulded yellow brick reveals, limestone sills and timber sash windows. Box-bay with twin round-headed window to north-facing elevation. Square-headed door opening to veranda with timber panelled door and overlight. Decorative cast-iron double gates supported by cast-iron piers with guilloche open work and flanked by pedestrian gates with piers and quadrant walls.

• Dungar House, stables, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stable complex, c.1840, to the north of Dungar House, with pitched slate roofs, random coursed stone walls with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roofs with limestone chimneystacks and bellcote. Square-headed window openings with cast-iron pivot windows and limestone sills. Square-headed door openings and carriage arch openings with ashlar surrounds. Yards enclosed by random coursed stone walls and accessed through arched openings.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1745 (ZIP).

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

Name

Dungar · Dún Gair

Area

2,404,308 m² (240.43 ha, 594.12 acres)

Civil parish

Roscrea, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Gorteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gorteen electoral division: 291 people in 101 households; 90% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashbury (Co. Tipperary), Cloonagh (Co. Tipperary), Fancroft, Glentara (Co. Tipperary), Gorraun, Killavilla, Loughpark (Co. Tipperary), Rooaun

Placenames

Dungar 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.