Geashill

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Geashill, from 173 m² to 20,029 m² (2 ha, 4.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 6 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 · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 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.

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  ALTERATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING GARAGE TO INCLUDE HOME OFFICE/GYM, WASHROOM, STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2614

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single-story extension to the rear of the school building, consisting of a Special Educational Needs classroom with ancillary accommodations, internal alterations and renovations to parts of the existing school building, additional parking area on the Southern Boundary and all associated site works at Scoil Na Croise Naofa, Geashill, Co. Offaly. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structure (RPS No. 35-001)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560460

• 25 Sept 2025N/a

  the construction of a single-story extension to the rear of the school building, consisting of a Special Educational Needs classroom with ancillary accommodations, additional parking area on the Southern Boundary and all associated site works at Scoil an Croisa Naofa, Geashill, Co. Offaly. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of a protected structure (RPS No. 35-01).

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560443

• 9 Sept 2025Conditional

  the use of a mobile food trailer to the rear of the existing property for a period of 5 years

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560412

• 21 Aug 2025N/a

  the use of a mobile food trailer to the rear of the existing property for a period of 5 years

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560380

• 11 Aug 2023Conditional

  Partial demolition, reconstruction, extension to dwelling house, incorporating change of use from dwelling house to Community Coffee Shop, Meeting Room and all associated site works. This is a protected structure ref 35-019 and NIAH 14814022.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360065

• 11 Mar 2021N/a

  PARTIAL DEMOLITION, RECONSTRUCTION, EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, INCORPORATING CHANGE OF USE FROM DWELLING HOUSE TO OFFICE HUB. THIS IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF 35/019

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21122

• 24 Feb 2021N/a

  PARTIAL DEMOLITION, RECONSTRUCTION, EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, INCORPORATING CHANGE OF USE FROM DWELLING HOUSE TO OFFICE HUB. THIS IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF 35-019

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2187

• 18 Dec 2018Conditional

  SHEDS AND GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18578

• 3 Sept 2018Conditional

  A CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18379

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 Geashill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Geashill.

Architectural heritage

• School, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Tudor style former school house, built in 1862, with return to rear and projecting gable-fronted entrance porch and southern bay of facade. Now used as a community centre. Set within grounds adjacent to modern school. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, paired tooled stone chimneystacks, finials, bellcote and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with tooled stone quoins and chamfered plinth. Replacement windows in tooled limestone surrounds with stone mullions. Tooled stone quatrefoil windows. Half-dormer windows to north bay of front and rear. Canted bay window to north elevation. Segmental-headed door openings with tooled stone block-and-start surrounds. Date plaque of 1862 above main entrance to porch. Replacement gate to porch with replacement timber panelled door to interior. Replacement door to rear with overlight. Site bounded by random coursed wall with pedestrian stiles.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached pair of three-bay single-storey with dormer attic houses, built c.1870, with extension to rear. Now in single use as a post office. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge cresting, rendered chimneystacks and replacement timber bargeboards. Rendered walls with modern brick cladding to base of ground floor. Dormer windows to attic with bargeboards and replacement timber windows. Replacement timber windows to ground floor with stone sills. Replacement timber door with sidelight. Modern shopfront with stone and brick stallriser and glass display windows flanking timber panelled double doors with overlight. Stone outbuildings to rear with pitched slate roofs.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  One of a pair of semi-detached four-bay single-storey houses with attic, built c.1880, with projecting gabled porch and extension to rear. Fronts directly onto the street. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed roughly dressed stone walls with quoins. Timber casement windows with lintel stones and tooled stone sills. Timber half door with tooled stone lintel and threshold stone.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  One of a pair semi-detached three-bay single-storey houses with attic, built c.1880, with projecting gabled porch and extension to rear. Fronts directly onto the street. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughly dressed random coursed stone walls with quoins. uPVC windows with overhead lintels and tooled stone sills. Timber half door with tooled stone lintel and threshold stone.

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with return to west and extension to north. Now also in use as public house. Fronts directly onto the street. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, oversailing eaves and timber bargeboards to gable ends. Roughcast render to walls with ruled-and-lined render to base and rendered quoins. Timber sash windows to first floor. uPVC and casement windows to ground floor with rendered surrounds. Replacement door. Half-hipped roof to abutting outbuilding with pantiles. Curved pebbledashed wall bounds site to rear.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic house, built c.1880, abutting house to south, with porch to front and extension to rear. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and bargeboards. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Replacement timber door to entrance porch with pitched slate roof and carved timber bargeboards.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1820, with porch extension to rear. Fronts directly onto the street. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with coping and roughcast rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Replacement timber and glass door. Outbuilding with pitched slate roof. Yard to rear accessed by wrought-iron gate.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan seven-bay single-storey house, built c.1860, with gabled bays to north elevation and extension to rear. Set back and raised slightly from street level. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and bargeboards to gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls. Casement windows with stone sills. Canted bay window to south gable end. Timber and stained glass door recessed in a square-headed opening. Replacement door to north entrance. Segmental-headed carriage opening to outbuilding with tooled stone block-and-start jambs.

• Worker's house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former house, built c.1860, with adjoining three-bay single-storey carriage house to west. Now used as coal shed. Located to rear of later house. Pitched terracotta pantiled roof with ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystack and oversailing eaves. Roughcast render to walls. Timber casement windows with timber lintels and tooled stone sills. Timber panelled door with overlight and tooled stone surround. Square-headed carriage opening to west flanked by random coursed rubble stone buttresses.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c.1880, with three-bay two-storey extension to rear and projecting central gabled porch. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with courses of hexagonal coloured slates, open-work cast-iron brattishing and rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls. Timber sash windows to façade and replacement windows to rear. Timber panelled door with sidelights. Site bounded to street by rendered wall.

• Rose Cottage, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with extension to rear and outbuilding to south-east. Set back from road. Half-hipped tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast render to walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Projecting central yellow brick entrance porch with replacement timber and glazed door. Outbuilding with roughcast rendered walls and pitched slate roof. Low random coursed stone boundary wall with tooled square-profile limestone gate piers and wrought-iron gate.

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

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

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.

• Geashill, Tullamore5 sales

Name

Geashill · Géisill

Area

83,664 m² (8.37 ha, 20.67 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alderborough, Ballydownan, Dalgan, Glebe East

Placenames

Geashill 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.