Hawkswood

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hawkswood, from 51 m² to 510,548 m² (51.05 ha, 126.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Hawkswood 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.

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  for an existing gable end window

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560523

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN ON A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING APPLICATION. PLANNING PERMISSION IS ALSO BEING SOUGHT FOR CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARIES ON PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING APPLICATION, ( PREVIOUS PLANNING REF 17/361) & RETENTION OF TEMPORARY DWELLING FOR THREE YEARS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21251

• 12 Aug 2019Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19398

• 9 Nov 2017Conditional

  (A) PROPOSED NEW TWO STOREY PITCHED ROOF DETACHED 3 BEDROOM HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE. (B) ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE NEW SITE ENTRANCE, LANDSCAPING WORKS, SEPTIC TANK & POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17442

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A NEW DORMER STYLE DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND THE ERECTION OF A SEPARATE GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17361

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Hawkswood Bog NHA 002355
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonad Wood 000574

Recorded monuments

• OF025-035 Crannog
  Description

  Situated on wet poorly drained bogland. Outline of circular shaped tree-planted area (approx. diam. 60m) at W end of coniferous tree plantation visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 20/03/2019. Circular grove of trees standing on bogland to the W of Derrynaslingue wood depicted on revised ed. OS 6-inch map. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 18/01/2019 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ed O'Donovan Date of upload: 09 April 2019

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with lines of scolloping and bobbins to ridge and having twine to eaves. Rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed stone walls. Square-headed timber sash windows. Porch with flat concrete roof, timber sash windows and timber battened door. Single-bay extension to rear with pitched tiled roof, with flat-roofed link to original building. Rendered boundary wall and piers with wrought-iron gate to road boundary.

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 Hawkswood.

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

Name

Hawkswood · Coill na Seabhac

Area

1,963,718 m² (196.37 ha, 485.25 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Killeigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeigh electoral division: 1,321 people in 441 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonad, Clonagh East, Derryad, Derrybeg, Derrygolan, Gorteen, Killeigh

Placenames

Hawkswood 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.