# Kilgortin, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Coill Ghoirtín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,323,233 m² (132.32 ha, 326.98 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,579 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/rahan.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Rahan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 753 people lived in 243 households in the Rahan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% 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/42202 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180799 - Centre: latitude 53.272741, longitude -7.573133 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgortin, from 319 m² to 272,222 m² (27.22 ha, 67.27 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4904726: 272,222 m² (27.22 ha, 67.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904726.md - Parcel 278527: 121,559 m² (12.16 ha, 30.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278527.md - Parcel 290239: 86,746 m² (8.67 ha, 21.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290239.md - Parcel 280205: 67,099 m² (6.71 ha, 16.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280205.md - Parcel 280201: 65,774 m² (6.58 ha, 16.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280201.md - Parcel 270522: 63,990 m² (6.4 ha, 15.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270522.md - Parcel 274211: 61,449 m² (6.14 ha, 15.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274211.md - Parcel 269231: 56,099 m² (5.61 ha, 13.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269231.md - Parcel 292667: 49,101 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292667.md - Parcel 5952299: 35,888 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5952299.md - Parcel 2387954: 35,440 m² (3.54 ha, 8.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2387954.md - Parcel 308015: 34,951 m² (3.5 ha, 8.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308015.md - Parcel 292666: 33,988 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292666.md - Parcel 279264: 30,957 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279264.md - Parcel 297201: 24,324 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297201.md - Parcel 292683: 21,189 m² (2.12 ha, 5.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292683.md - Parcel 281589: 20,398 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281589.md - Parcel 285091: 18,624 m² (1.86 ha, 4.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285091.md - Parcel 280203: 18,479 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280203.md - Parcel 277433: 11,676 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277433.md - Parcel 280202: 10,698 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280202.md - Parcel 292341: 10,579 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292341.md - Parcel 280227: 10,287 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280227.md - Parcel 4951098: 7,841 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951098.md - Parcel 290362: 7,685 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290362.md - Parcel 4659505: 6,963 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659505.md - Parcel 298089: 4,961 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298089.md - Parcel 303527: 4,766 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303527.md - Parcel 284655: 4,671 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284655.md - Parcel 291029: 4,085 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291029.md - Parcel 277434: 3,561 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277434.md - Parcel 301134: 3,492 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301134.md - Parcel 293616: 3,116 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293616.md - Parcel 4604080: 3,080 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4604080.md - Parcel 273035: 2,934 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273035.md - Parcel 280666: 2,657 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280666.md - Parcel 5772462: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5772462.md - Parcel 2387955: 1,806 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2387955.md - Parcel 4951095: 1,056 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951095.md - Parcel 4951094: 988 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951094.md - Parcel 288593: 898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/288593.md - Parcel 278528: 832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/278528.md - Parcel 4951097: 319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951097.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kilgortin 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 10 Oct 2025, Offaly County Council 2560479: Conditional. Retention. A) Machinery Shed B) Planning permission for Calf Shed C) Planning permission for Silage Pit D) Planning permission for Feed Store and all associated siteworks at Kilgortin, Rahan, Co. Offaly. This site lies within the curtilage of a protected structure ref no. 23-002. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560479/0 - 3 Dec 2024, Offaly County Council 24171: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/24171/0 - 8 Dec 2021, Offaly County Council 21758: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21758/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilgortin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14916017, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916017. Detached six-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan, but may formerly have been lobby-entry and facing into yard. Pitched oaten straw roof with decorative knotting and exposed scolloping to ridge and twine to eaves. Low rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered stone walls having stone wheel guard to south-east corner. Small openings with timber sash windows. Timber panelled door. Extension to rear, yard side of house with flat corrugated iron roof. Sited parallel to Grand Canal towpath with garden in between having rendered boundary wall to towpath. Yard to rear with modern steel outbuildings. - Aqueduct, 1800–1805, Regional interest, registry number 14916018, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916018. Three-arch aqueduct over river, built 1803. Overgrown snecked limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having cut-limestone coping. Series of three segmental arches with overgrown tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Clodiagh River with overgrown banks to river. ## 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 Kilgortin, about 1 in 5 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_1907, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1907.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/kilgortin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilgortin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilgortin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilgortin 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) - Ballycowan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycowan.md - Ballykeenaghan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykeenaghan.md - Ballynamire: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynamire.md - Glaskill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glaskill-180696.md - Killina: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killina.md - Lynally Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lynally-glebe.md - Murragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/murragh.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/kilgortin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/kilgortin