Foxburrow

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxburrow, from 258 m² to 348,571 m² (34.86 ha, 86.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Foxburrow 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.

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH A NEW ENTRANCE AND GARAGE, A NEW WELL ON SITE AND A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560595

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A GARAGE, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560075

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 Foxburrow.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foxburrow.

Architectural heritage

• Foxburrow House, farm house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1820, with canted bay breakfront, full-height return and extension to rear. Hipped tiled roof with terracotta pots, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to rear extension. Smooth render to basement, ruled-and-lined rendered to ground floor and roughcast render to first floor. Rendered quoins. Replacement uPVC windows with rendered surrounds and tooled stone sills. Round-headed recesses to ground floor of façade with square-headed uPVC windows and tooled stone sills. Round-headed stair window opening to return with uPVC window. Segmental-headed door opening with engaged Doric columns, uPVC door and fanlight. Tooled limestone steps with tooled limestone and roughcast rendered sweeping walls terminating in square-profile piers with fluting and wheat ear decoration in low relief. Walled garden to west of house with random coursed stone walls and ruin of building to north-east corner. Stone and roughcast rendered outbuildings to north of house with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Outbuildings enclose farmyard, accessed through wrought-iron gate. Random coursed stone well to south-west of house. Modern concrete gate piers to road with single-storey former gate lodge, now used as an outbuilding.

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Foxburrow.

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

Name

Foxburrow · Dromainn na Sionnach

Area

1,002,754 m² (100.28 ha, 247.79 acres)

Civil parish

Templeharry, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Templeharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templeharry electoral division: 215 people in 86 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Ballydonagh, Ballynakill, Clonymohan

Placenames

Foxburrow 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.