Fertaun

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fertaun, from 545 m² to 205,150 m² (20.52 ha, 50.69 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Fertaun 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.

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2563

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONTINUED USE OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT UNDER P. REG. NO. 02/462 (PL 19.201727) CONSISTING OF THE EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING TO INCLUDE WASHING (WITH ASSOCIATED CLOSED SYSTEM SILT STORAGE LAGOONS) AND RELATED ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES INCLUDING THE READYMIX CONCRETE BATCHING PLANT, CONCRETE BLOCK BATCHING PLANT AND BLOCK YARD, ASPHALT PLANT, SITE OFFICE, PREFABRICATED SHIPPING OFFICE, WHEELWASH, WEIGHBRIDGE, ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION, SINGLE BUILDING COMPRISING WORKSHOP/LABORATORY/CANTEEN, TWO BUNDED AND COVERED FUEL TANKS, A CONCRETE RECLAIMER AND A SEPTIC TANK WITH PURAFLO LIQUID EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE N52 ROAD; EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF THE EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL PIT OVER AN AREA OF 31.3 HECTARES. THE SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION WILL BE DRY WORKING ABOVE THE WATER TABLE; PROVISION OF A NEW SAND WASHING AND SCREENING PROCESSING PLANT; PHASED STRIPPING AND STORAGE OF TOPSOIL AND OVERBURDEN MATERIALS OVER THE EXTENSION LANDS FOR REUSE IN THE RESTORATION WORKS. RESTORATION OF THE OVERALL SITE WILL BE TO A BENEFICIAL AGRICULTURAL AFTER-USE; ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN AN OVERALL APPLICATION AREA OF 68.9 HECTARES, AND ALL FOR A PERIOD OF 18 YEARS PLUS 2 YEARS TO COMPLETE RESTORATION WORKS (TOTAL DURATION OF 20 YEARS). AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) HAS BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THIS PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19478

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 Fertaun.

Recorded monuments

• OF016-035 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Marked on all three editions of the OS 6-inch maps as 'Cromwell's Lines'. Davies (1942) describes the site as been dug away in gravel pits with slight traces of old trenches and portion of V-shaped ditch (Wth 8ft) 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fertaun.

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 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_1908 (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 Fertaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Fertaun · An Feartán

Area

253,500 m² (25.35 ha, 62.64 acres)

Civil parish

Lynally, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Screggan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Screggan electoral division: 1,513 people in 479 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claragh, Cloghabrack, Glaskill

Placenames

Fertaun 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.