# Kilcollin, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride (Tullamore Ra), barony of Kilcoursey, Co. Offaly; in Irish Coill an Choillín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 219,605 m² (21.96 ha, 54.27 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 109,803 m² (10.98 ha, 27.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbride (Tullamore Ra), https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilbride-tullamore-ra.md - Barony: Kilcoursey - Electoral division: Clara, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,229 people lived in 1,487 households in the Clara electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/41987 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180781 - Centre: latitude 53.350785, longitude -7.579127 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcollin, from 4,728 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres) to 214,878 m² (21.49 ha, 53.1 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 271846: 214,878 m² (21.49 ha, 53.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271846.md - Parcel 304660: 4,728 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304660.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kilcollin 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 3 Jul 2026, Offaly County Council 2660352: N/a. Permission. preparation and operation of a sandpit to remove a discrete hill covering an area of circa (‘ca’). 1.0ha within an agricultural field. The development will serve as an extension to the existing sandpit (Planning Reference 22/77) and will operate within the same ten-year lifespan as granted under the existing planning permission. The application area will cover ca. 2.0ha and will include a haulage route from the existing sandpit to the development area. It is estimated that ca. 79,644 cubic metres (‘m³’) of sand material will be extracted as part of these works, and processed using established infrastructure within the existing sandpit, or delivered directly to the market without processing. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660352/0 - 19 Jun 2026, Offaly County Council 2660327: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a two-storey dwelling, domestic garage, vehicle entrance, boundary treatments, landscaping and all other associated ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660327/0 - 30 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2560456: N/a. Permission. Malone O’Regan Environmental (‘MOR Environmental’) has been commissioned by Rob Connor (‘the Applicant’), in partnership with an established operator, to prepare an Environmental Report (‘ER’) in support of a planning application to Offaly County Council (‘OCC’) for the removal of a discrete hill comprised of sands and gravel (‘the Proposed Development’) in the Applicant’s landholding located within the townlands of Kilcollin and Lehinch, Clara, County (‘Co.’) Offaly (ITM 628177 733692) (‘the Site’). The Proposed Development will cover an area of ca. 2.0 hectares (ha), comprising an extraction area of ca. 1.0ha and an access route. The Site will be located ca. 2.6 kilometres (km) east of Clara. The Proposed Development will serve as an extension to the permitted development (Planning Reference 22/77) and will operate within the same ten-year lifespan as granted under the existing planning permission, the life of which extends to 2033. It is estimated that ca. 79,644m³ of sand material will be extracted as part of these works, and processed using established infrastructure within the existing sandpit, or delivered directly to the market without processing. Following the extraction of sand and gravel material, the agricultural field will be reinstated to match the surrounding ground levels and gradients. The discrete hill will not be reformed, providing a more uniform and improved agricultural landform. This will require the importation of 40,011m3 (ca. 72,020 tonnes) of clean, uncontaminated soil and stone by product material.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560456/0 - 23 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2560438: N/a. Permission. preparation and operation of a sandpit to remove a discrete hill (ca. 1.0ha) within an agricultural field. The development will serve as an extension to the existing sandpit (Planning Reference 22/77) and will operate within the same ten-year lifespan as granted under the existing planning permission, the life of which extends to 2033. The application area will cover ca. 2.0ha and will include a haulage route from the existing sandpit to the development area. It is estimated that ca. 79,644m³ of sand material will be extracted as part of these works, and processed using established infrastructure within the existing sandpit, or delivered directly to the market without processing.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560438/0 - 12 Nov 2021, Offaly County Council 21706: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TO CLOSE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCT NEW SITE ENTRANCE, DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21706/0 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 Kilcollin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcollin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcollin. ## 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 Kilcollin, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1904, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1904.zip (ZIP). - 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/kilcollin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcollin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilcollin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilcollin 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) - Ballickmoyler: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballickmoyler.md - Ballicknahee: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballicknahee.md - Lehinch: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lehinch.md - Lissanisky: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lissanisky.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/kilcollin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/kilcollin