# Lisduff, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Lios Dubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,192,240 m² (119.22 ha, 294.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,626 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumcullen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/drumcullen.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Drumcullen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 454 people lived in 152 households in the Drumcullen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/41292 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180904 - Centre: latitude 53.148322, longitude -7.762966 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisduff, from 112 m² to 500,439 m² (50.04 ha, 123.66 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 269249: 500,439 m² (50.04 ha, 123.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269249.md - Parcel 269248: 280,248 m² (28.02 ha, 69.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269248.md - Parcel 298645: 148,498 m² (14.85 ha, 36.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298645.md - Parcel 303638: 63,676 m² (6.37 ha, 15.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303638.md - Parcel 298644: 62,205 m² (6.22 ha, 15.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298644.md - Parcel 310202: 49,973 m² (5 ha, 12.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310202.md - Parcel 307374: 43,170 m² (4.32 ha, 10.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307374.md - Parcel 276135: 17,796 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276135.md - Parcel 274762: 10,170 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274762.md - Parcel 2471695: 5,082 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471695.md - Parcel 2477690: 3,346 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2477690.md - Parcel 309035: 2,252 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309035.md - Parcel 286997: 1,688 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/286997.md - Parcel 4952892: 1,180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952892.md - Parcel 4983452: 1,137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4983452.md - Parcel 2750510: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2750510.md - Parcel 4983457: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4983457.md - Parcel 293087: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/293087.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lisduff 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. - 24 Feb 2023, Offaly County Council 2374: Conditional. Permission. 10-YEAR PERMISSION AND 40 YEAR OPERATION FOR A SOLAR FARM ON 3 NO. LAND PARCELS AS DESCRIBED HEREIN: WEST PARCEL (DOVEHILL TOWNLAND) C.81.04 HECTARES, CENTRAL PARCEL (GORTNAMUCK & CURRAGHMORE (EGLISH BY) TOWNLANDS) C.42.2 HECTARES AND EAST PARCEL (GORTNAMUCK & FREAGH TOWNLANDS) C.16.07 HECTARES; A ROUTE CORRIDOR OF 3 HECTARES FOR AN UNDERGROUND INTERNAL ELECTRICAL CABLE CONNECTING THE WEST AND CENTRAL PARCELS TO THE EAST PARCEL CONSISTING OF C.3,956M UNDERGROUND CABLING WITHIN THE CORRIDOR OF THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD. THE TOTAL SITE AREA FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS C.142.31 HECTARES AND CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING; 834,632 SQ. METRES OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED STEEL FRAMES; INVERTER/TRANSFORMER STATIONS; UNDERGROUND POWER AND COMMUNICATION CABLES AND DUCTS; BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCING; 2 NO. MEDIUM VOLTAGE (MV) CONTROL BUILDINGS; NEW INTERNAL ACCESS TRACKS ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; 3 NO. SITE ENTRANCES TO THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD; 40 NO. CCTV/ LIGHTING POSTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES AND WORKS. INSTALLATIONS OF INTERNAL NETWORK CABLE COMPRISE TRENCHING FOR AN UNDERGROUND MEDIUM VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL CABLE AND ASSOCIATED JOINT BAYS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 2,750 METRES IN LENGTH ALONG THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD AND APPROXIMATELY 1,206 METRES WITHIN THE SOLAR FARM LANDS. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM WILL BE BROKEN INTO 2 NO. SEPARATE PHASES. 'PHASE 1' WILL CONSIST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOLAR PV ARRAYS LOCATED IN THE EAST PARCEL (C.16.07 HA), CENTRAL PARCEL (C.42.2 HA) AND THE WEST PARCEL (C.14.46 HA). 'PHASE 2' OF THE SOLAR FARM WILL CONSIST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REMAINDER OF THE SOLAR PV ARRAYS IN THE WEST PARCEL COVERING A SITE AREA OF C.66.58 HA. AS PART OF A SEPARATE STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (SID) PLANNING APPLICATION, PROVISION OF A 110KV ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION WITH ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING, ASSOCIATED COMPOUND WITH PALISADE FENCE AND 2 NO. OVERHEAD LINE MASTS, WHICH IS TO BE LOCATED IN THE EAST PARCEL, WILL BE LODGED WITH AN BORD PLEANÁLA IN DUE COURSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2374/0 - 5 Dec 2022, Offaly County Council 22622: N/a. Permission. A 10-YEAR PERMISSION AND 40 YEAR OPERATION FOR A SOLAR FARM ON 3 NO. LAND PARCELS AS DESCRIBED HEREIN: WEST PARCEL (DOVEHILL TOWNLAND) C. 119.25 HECTARES, CENTRAL PARCEL (GORTNAMUCK & CURRAGHMORE (EGLISH BY) TOWNLANDS) C. 42.2 HECTARES AND EAST PARCEL (GORTNAMUCK & FREAGH TOWNLANDS) C. 16.07 HECTARES; A ROUTE CORRIDOR OF 3.5 HECTARES FOR AN UNDERGROUND INTERNAL ELECTRICAL CABLE CONNECTING THE WEST AND CENTRAL PARCELS TO THE EAST PARCEL CONSISTING OF C. 3,859M UNDERGROUND CABLING WITHIN THE CORRIDOR OF THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD. THE TOTAL SITE AREA FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS C. 181.02 HECTARES AND CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING;1,070,756 SQ. METRES OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED STEEL FRAMES; INVERTER / TRANSFORMER STATIONS; UNDERGROUND POWER AND COMMUNICATION CABLES AND DUCTS; BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCING; 2 NO. MEDIUM VOLTAGE (MV) CONTROL BUILDINGS; NEW INTERNAL ACCESS TRACKS ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; SITE ENTRANCES TO THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD; 54 NO. CCTV/ LIGHTING POSTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES AND WORKS. INSTALLATIONS OF INTERNAL NETWORK CABLE COMPRISE TRENCHING FOR AN UNDERGROUND MEDIUM VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL CABLE AND ASSOCIATED JOINT BAYS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 3,859 METRES IN LENGTH ALONG THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD AND APPROXIMATELY 661.5 METRES WITHIN THE SOLAR FARM LANDS. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM WILL BE BROKEN INTO 2 NO. SEPARATE PHASES. 'PHASE 1' WILL CONSIST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOLAR PV ARRAYS LOCATED IN THE EAST PARCEL (C. 16.07 HA), CENTRAL PARCEL (C. 42.2 HA) AND THE WEST PARCEL (C. 52.67 HA). 'PHASE 2' OF THE SOLAR FARM WILL CONSIST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REMAINDER OF THE SOLAR PV ARRAYS IN THE WEST PARCEL COVERING A SITE AREA OF C. 66.58 HA. AS PART OF A SEPARATE STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (SID) PLANNING APPLICATION, PROVISION OF A 110KV ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION WITH ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING, ASSOCIATED COMPOUND WITH PALISADE FENCE AND 2 NO. OVERHEAD LINE MASTS, WHICH IS TO BE LOCATED IN THE EAST PARCEL, WILL BE LODGED WITH AN BORD PLEANÁLA IN DUE COURSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22622/0 - 11 Nov 2022, Offaly County Council 22586: N/a. Permission. A 10-YEAR PERMISSION AND 40 YEAR OPERATION FOR A SOLAR FARM ON 3 NO. LAND PARCELS AS DESCRIBED HEREIN: WEST PARCEL (DOVEHILL TOWNLAND) C. 119.25 HECTARES, CENTRAL PARCEL (GORTAMUCK & CURRAGHMORE (EGLISH BY) TOWNLANDS) C. 42.2 HECTARES AND EAST PARCEL (GORTAMUCK & FREAGH TOWNLANDS) C. 16.07 HECTARES; A ROUTE CORRIDOR OF 3.5 HECTARES FOR AN UNDERGROUND INTERNAL ELECTRICAL CABLE CONNECTING THE WEST AND CENTRAL PARCELS TO THE EAST PARCEL CONSISTING OF C. 3,859M UNDERGROUND CABLING WITHIN THE CORRIDOR OF THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD. THE TOTAL SITE AREA FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS C. 181.02 HECTARES AND CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING;1,070,756 SQ. METRES OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED STEEL FRAMES; INVERTER / TRANSFORMER STATIONS; UNDERGROUND POWER AND COMMUNICATION CABLES AND DUCTS; BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCING; 2 NO. MEDIUM VOLTAGE (MV) CONTROL BUILDINGS; NEW INTERNAL ACCESS TRACKS ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; SITE ENTRANCES TO THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD; 54 NO. CCTV/ LIGHTING POSTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES AND WORKS. INSTALLATIONS OF INTERNAL NETWORK CABLE COMPRISE TRENCHING FOR AN UNDERGROUND MEDIUM VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL CABLE AND ASSOCIATED JOINT BAYS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 3,859 METRES IN LENGTH ALONG THE L6042 'RATH ROAD' PUBLIC ROAD AND APPROXIMATELY 661.5 METRES WITHIN THE SOLAR FARM LANDS. THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM WILL BE BROKEN INTO 2 NO. SEPARATE PHASES. 'PHASE 1' WILL CONSIST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOLAR PV ARRAYS LOCATED IN THE EAST PARCEL (C. 16.07 HA), CENTRAL PARCEL (C. 42.2 HA) AND THE WEST PARCEL (C. 52.67 HA). 'PHASE 2' OF THE SOLAR FARM WILL CONSIST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REMAINDER OF THE SOLAR PV ARRAYS IN THE WEST PARCEL COVERING A SITE AREA OFC. 66.58 HA. AS PART OF A SEPARATE STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (SID) PLANNING APPLICATION, PROVISION OF A 1 10KV ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION WITH ELECTRICAL CONTROL BUILDING, ASSOCIATED COMPOUND WITH PALISADE FENCE AND 2 NO. OVERHEAD LINE MASTS, WHICH IS TO BE LOCATED IN THE EAST PARCEL, WILL BE LODGED WITH AN BORD PLEANÁLA IN DUE COURSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22586/0 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 Lisduff. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF031-024: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF031-024----. Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 167/8) shows cropmark of circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF031-025: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF031-025----. Not visible at ground level. According to local information the site consisted of a circular area enclosed by a bank of earth with trees on top, but it was not known locally as a fort. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF031-030: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF031-030----. On N facing slope of high ground. Oval shaped enclosure (diam. 38m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks separated by an intervening fosse (Wth 2.4m; int. D 2m; ext. D 1m) with external fosse (Wth 6m; int. D 2m; ext. D 1m). No evidence of an entrance feature. Inner bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1m) best preserved with E part of outer bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 1.2m) removed. The interior of the site has been used as a vegetable garden in the past. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisduff. ## 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 Lisduff, 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisduff. - 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/lisduff-180904.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lisduff-180904.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lisduff-180904.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lisduff 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) - Ballymaddock: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymaddock.md - Cornagark: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cornagark.md - Curragh Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curragh-lower.md - Derry Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derry-upper.md - Dovehill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/dovehill.md - Money: https://everytownland.com/offaly/money.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/lisduff-180904 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/lisduff-180904