# Kilgolan Upper, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyboy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly; in Irish Coill an Ghabhláin Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 589,868 m² (58.99 ha, 145.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyboy, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballyboy.md - Barony: Ballyboy - Electoral division: Kilcormac, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,486 people lived in 551 households in the Kilcormac electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41400 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180798 - Centre: latitude 53.168018, longitude -7.696267 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgolan Upper, from 225 m² to 513,670 m² (51.37 ha, 126.93 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4660561: 513,670 m² (51.37 ha, 126.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660561.md - Parcel 274278: 59,544 m² (5.95 ha, 14.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274278.md - Parcel 3763543: 4,569 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3763543.md - Parcel 303636: 4,275 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303636.md - Parcel 4660369: 2,436 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660369.md - Parcel 298125: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298125.md - Parcel 4947175: 1,184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4947175.md - Parcel 295437: 1,180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/295437.md - Parcel 295096: 641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/295096.md - Parcel 4660556: 225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660556.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kilgolan Upper 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) 1 application, newest first. - 7 Oct 2019, Offaly County Council 19476: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. THE CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING INTEGRATED GARAGE INTO LIVING ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING THE REPLACEMENT OF GARAGE DOOR TO FRONT WITH A BAY WINDOW, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOFED UTILITY ROOM TO SIDE OF HOUSE & A SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOFED STORE TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE, THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOFED STORAGE SHED TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING, THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOFED GARDEN STUDY TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING, THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOFED GARDEN ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING, ALL WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19476/0 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 Kilgolan Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilgolan Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilgolan Upper. ## 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 Kilgolan Upper, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1805, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1805.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/kilgolan-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilgolan-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilgolan-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilgolan Upper 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) - Ballyboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyboy-180095.md - Kilgolan Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilgolan-lower.md - Killeen and Lugnaboley: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killeen-and-lugnaboley.md - Knockhill and Drinagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockhill-and-drinagh.md - Luganiska: https://everytownland.com/offaly/luganiska.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/kilgolan-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/kilgolan-upper