# Glendossaun, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kinnitty, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gleann Dosán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,865,974 m² (286.6 ha, 708.2 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 35,600 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kinnitty, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kinnitty.md
- Barony: Ballybritt
- Electoral division: Kinnitty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 596 people lived in 207 households in the Kinnitty electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41434
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180714
- Centre: latitude 53.073338, longitude -7.644299 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glendossaun, from 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 2,527,902 m² (252.79 ha, 624.66 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 274749: 2,527,902 m² (252.79 ha, 624.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274749.md
- Parcel 287145: 84,693 m² (8.47 ha, 20.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287145.md
- Parcel 271637: 49,272 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271637.md
- Parcel 272415: 47,186 m² (4.72 ha, 11.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272415.md
- Parcel 272669: 24,014 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272669.md
- Parcel 307753: 15,759 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307753.md
- Parcel 295665: 3,173 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295665.md
- Parcel 298004: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298004.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Glendossaun 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Glendossaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Camcor Wood, site code 000889

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF037-022: Road - road/trackway, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF037-022----. Situated on steep W facing slope of rising ground in upland area. Monument consists of two parallel field walls (H 0.8m) forming a road or trackway (Wth 6m) running N-S up from the river valley to the summit of the mountain in Glendossaun. According to local historian Paddy Lowry this may have been a drove road where the cattle were driven up from the river valley to the mountain top between the two walls. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. 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 Glendossaun.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Glendossaun, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glendossaun.
- 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/glendossaun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glendossaun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glendossaun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Glendossaun 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)

- Castletown and Glinsk: https://everytownland.com/offaly/castletown-and-glinsk.md
- Cummer (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/cummer.md
- Forelacka: https://everytownland.com/offaly/forelacka.md
- Glenregan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenregan.md
- Gorteenameale (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/gorteenameale.md
- Johnsborough (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/johnsborough.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.

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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/glendossaun
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/glendossaun