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

Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Grinneall.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,144,113 m² (114.41 ha, 282.72 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,431 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md
- Barony: Garrycastle
- Electoral division: Shannonharbour, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 363 people lived in 132 households in the Shannonharbour electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% 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/41574
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180749
- Centre: latitude 53.200894, longitude -7.909627 (WGS 84)

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

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Guernal, from 337 m² to 382,142 m² (38.21 ha, 94.43 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 271285: 382,142 m² (38.21 ha, 94.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271285.md
- Parcel 295885: 163,568 m² (16.36 ha, 40.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295885.md
- Parcel 5579731: 101,710 m² (10.17 ha, 25.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5579731.md
- Parcel 310590: 87,597 m² (8.76 ha, 21.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310590.md
- Parcel 284133: 81,566 m² (8.16 ha, 20.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284133.md
- Parcel 308925: 77,623 m² (7.76 ha, 19.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308925.md
- Parcel 291824: 56,583 m² (5.66 ha, 13.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291824.md
- Parcel 5579728: 47,872 m² (4.79 ha, 11.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5579728.md
- Parcel 288918: 44,845 m² (4.48 ha, 11.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288918.md
- Parcel 282869: 36,078 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282869.md
- Parcel 291778: 7,431 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291778.md
- Parcel 306324: 4,629 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306324.md
- Parcel 307162: 3,481 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307162.md
- Parcel 3372035: 3,453 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3372035.md
- Parcel 4905889: 3,300 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905889.md
- Parcel 4650038: 3,227 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650038.md
- Parcel 294189: 2,674 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294189.md
- Parcel 291808: 2,640 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291808.md
- Parcel 312043: 2,250 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312043.md
- Parcel 312611: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312611.md
- Parcel 307895: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307895.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Guernal 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 Guernal in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## 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 Guernal.

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

- OF022-020001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-020001-. Situated on the floodplains of the Little river in undulating countryside with graveyard (OF022-021----) to the E and holy well (OF022-022----) to the S. Only the grass covered wall footings of a small church survive (ext. dims. 15m E-W; 8.6m N-S; wall T 1.3m) with evidence of large limestone boulders used in the wall construction. No architectural features visible. Possible church of early medieval date. 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
- OF022-020002: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF022-020002-. Situated on the floodplains of the Little river in undulating countryside with graveyard (OF022-021----) to the E and holy well (OF022-022----) to the S. Only the grass covered wall footings of a small church survive (OF022-020001-) with evidence of large limestone boulders used in the wall construction. Unable to locate any traces of a bullaun stone in the vicinity of the church that was shown to the SMR office fieldworkers by a local landowner in 1988. 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 Guernal.

## 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 Guernal, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Guernal.
- 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/guernal.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/guernal.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/guernal.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Guernal 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)

- Attinkee: https://everytownland.com/offaly/attinkee.md
- Balliver: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balliver.md
- Carrick: https://everytownland.com/offaly/carrick-180310.md
- Kilcamin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcamin.md
- Tonlemone: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tonlemone.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/guernal
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/guernal