Loughan

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughan, from 163 m² to 461,575 m² (46.16 ha, 114.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Loughan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  (A): THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH-EAST ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING PRE-SCHOOL BUILDING AND THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF (B): PERMISSION FOR THE UPGRADE WORKS TO THE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23208

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  (A) AN EXISTING CALF SHED AND (B) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A SILAGE BASE EXTENSION AND A SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 22634

• 13 Jul 2020Conditional

  RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE FROM PUBLIC ROAD TO NORTH- WEST CORNER OF SITE & ADJUST SITE BOUNDARY TO SUIT, ERECTION OF NEW SIGN, CHANGE HOURS OF OPERATION FROM "9.30 AM - 1.30PM" TO "7.30AM - 6.30PM", ALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20291

• 19 Dec 2018N/a

  A NEW BOVINE LOOSE HOUSING AREA WHICH ADJOINS AN ALREADY APPROVED BOVINE SHED (NO:16/88) AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 18580

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18102

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Loughan.

Recorded monuments

• OF045-031 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as a large circular enclosure with intersecting field fence at E on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF045-032001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Present remains consist of a modern graveyard wall enclosing a square shaped area with the outline of a church (ext. dims. 17m E-W; 11m N-S) in the W sector. Architectural fragment consisting of an ogee headed window indicates late medieval date for church. Other fragments include a bullaun stone (OF045-032002-) with two shallow depressions on its upper surface and a large hollow depression on its underside. A roughly rectangular shaped stone with a hole which has a convex bulbous bottom. Possibly the base of a cross (OF045-032005-). Graveyard (OF045-032004-) contains 18/19th-century headstones. According to O' Flanagan (1933, vol. 2, 68) this site was known as the church of Finglas. 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

• OF045-032002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Present remains consist of a modern graveyard wall enclosing a square shaped area with the outline of a church (OF045-032001-) in the W sector. Architectural fragment consisting of an ogee headed window indicates late medieval date for church. Other fragments include a bullaun stone with two shallow depressions on its upper surface and a large hollow depression on its underside. A roughly rectangular shaped stone with a hole which has a convex bulbous bottom. Possibly the base of a cross (OF045-032005-). Graveyard (OF045-032004-) contains 18/19th-century headstones. According to O' Flanagan (1933, vol. 2, 68) this site was known as the church of Finglas. 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

• OF045-032004 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Present remains consist of a modern graveyard wall enclosing a square shaped area with the outline of a church (OF045-032001-) in the W sector. Architectural fragment consisting of an ogee headed window indicates late medieval date for church. Other fragments include a bullaun stone (OF045-032002-) with two shallow depressions on its upper surface and a large hollow depression on its underside. A roughly rectangular shaped stone with a hole which has a convex bulbous bottom. Possibly the base of a cross (OF045-032005-). Graveyard (OF045-032004-) contains 18/19th-century headstones. According to O' Flanagan (1933, vol. 2, 68) this site was known as the church of Finglas. 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

• OF045-032005 Cross
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Present remains consist of a modern graveyard wall enclosing a square shaped area with the outline of a church (OF045-032001-) in the W sector. Architectural fragment consisting of an ogee headed window indicates late medieval date for church. Other fragments include a bullaun stone (OF045-032002-) with two shallow depressions on its upper surface and a large hollow depression on its underside. A roughly rectangular shaped stone with a hole which has a convex bulbous bottom. Possibly the base of a cross. Graveyard (OF045-032004-) contains 18/19th-century headstones. According to O' Flanagan (1933, vol. 2, 68) this site was known as the church of Finglas. 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

• OF045-033 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. 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

• OF047-020 Structure
  Description

  Phase 2 excavations were undertaken by John Tierney of Eachtra Archaeological Projects under licence No. E4000 along 17.1 km (Contract 1) of the 35-km N7 Castletown to Nenagh (Derrinsallagh to Ballintotty) national road scheme commissioned by Laois County Council and the National Roads Authority. Contract 1 comprises the western half of the scheme and runs from Clashnevin to Castleroan passing through Tipperary North and Offaly county border regions. The area of excavation at Loughan measured 20m by 15m. Four pits, three posts and two hearths were recorded in the area of the excavation. One of the driven posts cut a pit. No structure was discernible. The driven posts may have functioned as markers for the hearths (Bennett 2011, 300). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 12 November 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughan.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Loughan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughan.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. 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.

No address of the register names Loughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Loughan · Lochán

Area

2,862,803 m² (286.28 ha, 707.41 acres)

Civil parish

Finglas, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Dunkerrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

385 people lived in 131 households in the Dunkerrin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Busherstown, Castleroan, Clonymohan, Franckfort, Irishtown, Moatquarter (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Loughan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. 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.