# Heath, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lynally, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Fraoch. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 561,913 m² (56.19 ha, 138.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,627 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lynally, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/lynally.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Screggan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,513 people lived in 479 households in the Screggan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 38% 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/42262 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180753 - Centre: latitude 53.243012, longitude -7.571732 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Heath, from 167 m² to 161,725 m² (16.17 ha, 39.96 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 271301: 161,725 m² (16.17 ha, 39.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271301.md - Parcel 279699: 98,398 m² (9.84 ha, 24.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279699.md - Parcel 2427707: 63,344 m² (6.33 ha, 15.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2427707.md - Parcel 285897: 53,173 m² (5.32 ha, 13.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285897.md - Parcel 270275: 39,700 m² (3.97 ha, 9.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270275.md - Parcel 277596: 37,333 m² (3.73 ha, 9.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277596.md - Parcel 274151: 20,522 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274151.md - Parcel 303891: 19,502 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303891.md - Parcel 4635273: 13,294 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635273.md - Parcel 309866: 10,697 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309866.md - Parcel 4635275: 10,279 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635275.md - Parcel 307494: 7,627 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307494.md - Parcel 288524: 5,447 m² (0.54 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288524.md - Parcel 291071: 4,755 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291071.md - Parcel 4662317: 3,684 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4662317.md - Parcel 282072: 3,144 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282072.md - Parcel 4691678: 2,716 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4691678.md - Parcel 3496911: 2,176 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3496911.md - Parcel 4759349: 2,036 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759349.md - Parcel 305859: 1,546 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305859.md - Parcel 5762192: 354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5762192.md - Parcel 4661147: 313 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661147.md - Parcel 5762181: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5762181.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Heath 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 9 Feb 2021, Offaly County Council 2151: Conditional. Permission. NEW VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCES AND ACCESS FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD, INCORPORATING NEW GATES AND SITE BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, ACCESS ROAD AND HARDSTANDING AREA FOR TEMPORARY BUILDINGS, 5 NO. NEW TEMPORARY CHANGING ROOMS, CHEMICAL WC FACILITIES, NEW SOCCER PITCHES, ACCESS AND EXERCISE PATHS, PITCH FLOODLIGHTING, CAR PARKING, BALL STOP FENCING ALONG THE NORTH WESTERN BOUNDARY ABUTTING THE N52 NATIONAL SECONDARY ROUTE, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151/0 - 7 Oct 2019, Offaly County Council 19478: Conditional. Permission. CONTINUED USE OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT UNDER P. REG. NO. 02/462 (PL 19.201727) CONSISTING OF THE EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING TO INCLUDE WASHING (WITH ASSOCIATED CLOSED SYSTEM SILT STORAGE LAGOONS) AND RELATED ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES INCLUDING THE READYMIX CONCRETE BATCHING PLANT, CONCRETE BLOCK BATCHING PLANT AND BLOCK YARD, ASPHALT PLANT, SITE OFFICE, PREFABRICATED SHIPPING OFFICE, WHEELWASH, WEIGHBRIDGE, ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION, SINGLE BUILDING COMPRISING WORKSHOP/LABORATORY/CANTEEN, TWO BUNDED AND COVERED FUEL TANKS, A CONCRETE RECLAIMER AND A SEPTIC TANK WITH PURAFLO LIQUID EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE N52 ROAD; EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF THE EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL PIT OVER AN AREA OF 31.3 HECTARES. THE SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION WILL BE DRY WORKING ABOVE THE WATER TABLE; PROVISION OF A NEW SAND WASHING AND SCREENING PROCESSING PLANT; PHASED STRIPPING AND STORAGE OF TOPSOIL AND OVERBURDEN MATERIALS OVER THE EXTENSION LANDS FOR REUSE IN THE RESTORATION WORKS. RESTORATION OF THE OVERALL SITE WILL BE TO A BENEFICIAL AGRICULTURAL AFTER-USE; ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN AN OVERALL APPLICATION AREA OF 68.9 HECTARES, AND ALL FOR A PERIOD OF 18 YEARS PLUS 2 YEARS TO COMPLETE RESTORATION WORKS (TOTAL DURATION OF 20 YEARS). AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) HAS BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THIS PLANNING APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19478/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Heath. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Heath. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Heath. ## 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 Heath, 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 Heath. - 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/heath-180753.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/heath-180753.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/heath-180753.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Heath 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) - Bunaterin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bunaterin-180285.md - Claragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/claragh.md - Cloghanbane: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghanbane.md - Ross: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ross-181067.md - Shanvally: https://everytownland.com/offaly/shanvally.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/heath-180753 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/heath-180753