Feeghs
Townland in the civil parish of Reynagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Na Feá
- Area
- 76.9 ha
- 190 acres
- Land parcels
- 95
- registered freehold, median 2,351 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feeghs, from 23 m² to 62,608 m² (6.26 ha, 15.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Feb 2025Conditional
construction of a four bedroom 2 storey dwelling and garage. The application will also include a new biofilter treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560051
31 Oct 2023Conditional
a revision of drawings of an extension, previously granted permission, under planning reference number PL2/20/561. Permission is sought to demolish existing extension of dwelling and construction of new extension, installation of 18 No. PV panels, re-connection to the existing public foul sewer and existing water mains services on the site and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360167
7 Sept 2023N/a
for a revision to drawings/design of an extension previously granted permission under planning reference number PL2/20/561. Permission is also sought to demolish existing extension of dwelling and construction of new extension, installation of 18 No. PV panels, re-connection to the existing public foul sewer and existing water mains services on the site and all associated site works at Middle Road, Feeghs, Banagher, Co. Offaly.
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2360105
24 Aug 2023N/a
Proposed demolition of existing extension to the original cottage and to construct a new extension to the original cottage, installation of 18 No. PV panels, re-connection to the existing public foul sewer and existing water mains services on the site and all associated site works. Existing ridge height of cottage is 4.6m and proposed extension ridge height is 4.6m. Existing cottage to be retrofitted. Site has one dwelling and one shed. Shed previously granted retention permission on planning reference number 20/561.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360079
20 Feb 2023Conditional
A SINGLE STOREY, MASONRY CONSTRUCTED OUTBUILDING WITH A LEAN-TO ROOF OF THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2359
29 Nov 2021Conditional
PLANNING REF:21206. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, A PROPOSED BORED WELL, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE
Permission consequent, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21734
13 Apr 2021Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, A PROPOSED BORED WELL, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 21206
13 Nov 2020Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE CONSTRUCTED TO THE REAR OF MY DWELLING HOUSE. PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A REAR EXTENSION TO MY EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE 11NO. PV SOLAR PANELS & INSTALL 1 NO. GABLE END WINDOW, RE-CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER AND EXISTING WATER MAINS SERVICES ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20561
30 Oct 2019Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING AND GARAGE, PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19508
3 Jul 2019Refused
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY GARDEN HOUSE (LOG CABIN TYPE) FLOOR AREA 75M2 WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN FOUL SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19321
10 Sept 2018Conditional
NEW ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROADWAY, CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE DWELLING & DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO MAINS PUBLIC SERVICES ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 18388
8 Mar 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR ACCESS GATE TO EXISTING DWELLING'S SIDE BOUNDARY WALL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18104
3 May 2017Conditional
A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ FUEL SHED INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17151
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 Feeghs.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Feeghs.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Paul's Church (Reynagh), church/chapel, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Detached cruciform Board of First Fruits church, built in 1829, with two-stage tower and spire to north, three-bay nave and vestry to south. Pitched tiled roof with carved limestone coping. Decorative carved saddle-stones to east and west elevations. Carved finials to south elevation, vestry and meeting room. Ribbed limestone octagonal spire with louvered lucarnes and pinnacles to angles of tower. Coursed squared limestone walls with eaves course, tooled quoins and diagonal buttresses. Pointed-arched window openings with chamfered limestone surrounds and carved hoodmouldings. Pointed-arched stained glass windows to transepts and chancel. Pointed-arched door opening with recessed carved limestone reveals and hoodmouldings set within tooled entrance bay with string course and castellated detail. Tudor arched door openings to vestry and meeting room with chamfered limestone surrounds and hoodmouldings. Interior with timber box pews, pulpit and stone memorial plaques to walls. Gallery to rear of nave. Graveyard with upright and recumbent grave markers, enclosed by random coursed wall with limestone barrel coping-stones and wrought-iron railings with spear finials. Site accessed through wrought-iron double gates flanked by limestone piers.
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 Feeghs.
- 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 Feeghs with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Feeghs · Na Feá
- Area
- 768,882 m² (76.89 ha, 189.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Reynagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Banagher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Banagher electoral division: 2,215 people in 802 households; 65% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clontotan, Coolderry, Cuba, Cummeen, Curraghavarna and Portavolla, Feeghroe or Mountcarteret, Garrycastle, Kylebeg or Banagher, Lecarrow Glebe or Britannia
- Placenames
- Feeghs 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.