# Keraun, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghancon, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Caorán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 624,929 m² (62.49 ha, 154.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,513 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghancon, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/aghancon.md - Barony: Ballybritt - Electoral division: Aghancon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Aghancon electoral division: 371 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41742 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180769 - Centre: latitude 53.006206, longitude -7.79691 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keraun, from 259 m² to 164,882 m² (16.49 ha, 40.74 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 307633: 164,882 m² (16.49 ha, 40.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307633.md - Parcel 274896: 122,810 m² (12.28 ha, 30.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274896.md - Parcel 280130: 112,072 m² (11.21 ha, 27.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280130.md - Parcel 270146: 53,824 m² (5.38 ha, 13.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270146.md - Parcel 303683: 46,817 m² (4.68 ha, 11.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303683.md - Parcel 295166: 37,524 m² (3.75 ha, 9.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295166.md - Parcel 277972: 20,301 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277972.md - Parcel 293674: 8,724 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293674.md - Parcel 295390: 7,262 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295390.md - Parcel 291288: 5,078 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291288.md - Parcel 290850: 4,756 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290850.md - Parcel 288421: 4,314 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288421.md - Parcel 313149: 2,426 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313149.md - Parcel 311192: 259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311192.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Keraun 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. - 11 Feb 2019, Offaly County Council 1950: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. NEW BUNGALOW STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950/0 - 17 Dec 2018, Offaly County Council 18576: N/a. Permission, 1 home. NEW BUNGALOW STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18576/0 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 Keraun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Keraun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Keraun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Keraun. - 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/keraun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/keraun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/keraun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Keraun 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) - Ballybritt: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballybritt.md - Bredagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bredagh.md - Glascloon: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glascloon-180692.md - Heath: https://everytownland.com/offaly/heath-180754.md - Lissanierin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lissanierin.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/keraun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/keraun