Fearboy
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcumreragh, barony of Kilcoursey, Co. Offaly; in Irish Fiar Buí
- Area
- 75 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 16,540 m² (1.65 ha, 4.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fearboy, from 1,226 m² to 91,908 m² (9.19 ha, 22.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Fearboy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Aug 2021Conditional
THE ERECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH THE ERECTION OF A NEW SEPERATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21515
18 Aug 2020Refused
THE ERRECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH, AND THE ERRECTION OF A NEW SEPERATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20378
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fearboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fearboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fearboy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Fearboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fearboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Fearboy · Fiar Buí
- Area
- 749,579 m² (74.96 ha, 185.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcumreragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilcoursey
- Electoral division
- Kilcumreragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcumreragh electoral division: 553 people in 187 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybeg (Co. Westmeath), Ballynahinch, Faheeran, Feargarrow, Grange (Co. Westmeath), Kilcatherina (Co. Westmeath)
- Placenames
- Fearboy 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.