# Goldsmithslot, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Lota Goldsmith. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 600,352 m² (60.04 ha, 148.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,468 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/rahan.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Rahan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 753 people lived in 243 households in the Rahan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42215 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180720 - Centre: latitude 53.286662, longitude -7.637055 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goldsmithslot, from 246 m² to 92,932 m² (9.29 ha, 22.96 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 311067: 92,932 m² (9.29 ha, 22.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311067.md - Parcel 311064: 74,124 m² (7.41 ha, 18.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311064.md - Parcel 294426: 55,449 m² (5.54 ha, 13.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294426.md - Parcel 311063: 44,541 m² (4.45 ha, 11.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311063.md - Parcel 307026: 44,113 m² (4.41 ha, 10.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307026.md - Parcel 305704: 40,668 m² (4.07 ha, 10.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305704.md - Parcel 307047: 35,155 m² (3.52 ha, 8.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307047.md - Parcel 308259: 33,265 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308259.md - Parcel 296210: 26,314 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296210.md - Parcel 307046: 19,906 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307046.md - Parcel 311068: 16,793 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311068.md - Parcel 307050: 14,586 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307050.md - Parcel 285673: 9,913 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285673.md - Parcel 311069: 9,191 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311069.md - Parcel 311070: 8,468 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311070.md - Parcel 311577: 7,785 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311577.md - Parcel 4758403: 7,509 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4758403.md - Parcel 295120: 6,887 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295120.md - Parcel 294391: 6,207 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294391.md - Parcel 2457211: 4,958 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2457211.md - Parcel 285672: 4,703 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285672.md - Parcel 4648585: 4,488 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648585.md - Parcel 5668962: 4,143 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5668962.md - Parcel 311071: 3,839 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311071.md - Parcel 5996305: 2,911 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5996305.md - Parcel 275427: 2,557 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275427.md - Parcel 301126: 2,060 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301126.md - Parcel 307275: 1,095 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307275.md - Parcel 307051: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307051.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Goldsmithslot 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 21 Dec 2022, Offaly County Council 22659: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC SHED/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22659/0 - 21 Dec 2022, Offaly County Council 22660: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA DOMESTIC SHED/STORE, BORED WELL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22660/0 - 11 Sept 2020, Offaly County Council 20429: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20429/0 - 5 May 2020, Offaly County Council 20163: Refused. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20163/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Goldsmithslot. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Henesy's Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14916003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916003. Single-arch masonry accommodation bridge, built c.1804, over the Grand Canal. Random rubble limestone construction. Arch of semi-elliptical profile. Voussoirs of finely dressed stone. Dressed limestone string course. Parapets coped with dressed limestone. South ends of parapets rebuilt. Humped deck. ## 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 Goldsmithslot, about 1 in 5 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 Geological Survey did not answer. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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/goldsmithslot.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/goldsmithslot.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/goldsmithslot.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Goldsmithslot 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) - Ballina: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballina-180053.md - Cappaloughan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cappaloughan.md - Derryesker: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derryesker.md - Kilpatrick: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilpatrick.md - Mountarmstrong: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mountarmstrong.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180987.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/goldsmithslot - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/goldsmithslot