# Fertaun, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lynally, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Feartán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 253,500 m² (25.35 ha, 62.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,632 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lynally, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/lynally.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Screggan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42260 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180664 - Centre: latitude 53.25574, longitude -7.57384 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fertaun, from 545 m² to 205,150 m² (20.52 ha, 50.69 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 309816: 205,150 m² (20.52 ha, 50.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309816.md - Parcel 271141: 25,234 m² (2.52 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271141.md - Parcel 305247: 11,100 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305247.md - Parcel 308689: 2,298 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308689.md - Parcel 305711: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305711.md - Parcel 310230: 1,633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310230.md - Parcel 279447: 1,630 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/279447.md - Parcel 304143: 1,509 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/304143.md - Parcel 284201: 1,209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/284201.md - Parcel 281643: 967 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281643.md - Parcel 4649554: 770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649554.md - Parcel 4649556: 545 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649556.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 18 Jun 2025, Offaly County Council 2563: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2563/0 - 7 Oct 2019, Offaly County Council 19478: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19478/0 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 Fertaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF016-035: Linear earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-035----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fertaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1908.zip (ZIP). - 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/fertaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fertaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/fertaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fertaun 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) - Claragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/claragh.md - Cloghabrack: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghabrack.md - Glaskill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glaskill-180696.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. --- 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/fertaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/fertaun