# Lowerheath, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Fraoch Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 706,411 m² (70.64 ha, 174.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,008 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Eglish, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/eglish.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Derryad, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Derryad electoral division: 276 people in 89 households; 91% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 16% 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/41245 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180922 - Centre: latitude 53.148128, longitude -7.831094 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowerheath, from 202 m² to 368,222 m² (36.82 ha, 90.99 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 299510: 368,222 m² (36.82 ha, 90.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299510.md - Parcel 5095547: 132,663 m² (13.27 ha, 32.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5095547.md - Parcel 5095548: 104,246 m² (10.42 ha, 25.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5095548.md - Parcel 269995: 36,049 m² (3.6 ha, 8.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269995.md - Parcel 270118: 21,025 m² (2.1 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270118.md - Parcel 314136: 9,364 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314136.md - Parcel 314137: 6,882 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314137.md - Parcel 309023: 3,870 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309023.md - Parcel 3767490: 3,606 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3767490.md - Parcel 5272306: 3,008 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5272306.md - Parcel 308736: 2,620 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308736.md - Parcel 360119: 2,524 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360119.md - Parcel 283028: 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283028.md - Parcel 309983: 2,274 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309983.md - Parcel 288685: 2,053 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288685.md - Parcel 295709: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295709.md - Parcel 312977: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312977.md - Parcel 288565: 1,310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/288565.md - Parcel 2477328: 202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2477328.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lowerheath 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 19 Jun 2018, Offaly County Council 18265: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND MANURE STORAGE TANK, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18265/0 - 20 Sept 2017, Offaly County Council 17358: Conditional. Permission. 1 NO. FREE RANGE POULTRY HOUSE AND 1 NO. ANCILLARY STORAGE SHED, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES (TO INCLUDE MEAL STORAGE BIN, SOILED WATER TANK ETC.) AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17358/0 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 Lowerheath. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lowerheath. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lowerheath. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lowerheath. - 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/lowerheath.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lowerheath.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lowerheath.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lowerheath 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) - Carrigeen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/carrigeen-180313.md - Doorosheath: https://everytownland.com/offaly/doorosheath.md - Mounthenry: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mounthenry.md - Parkmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/parkmore.md - Springfield: https://everytownland.com/offaly/springfield.md - Whigsborough: https://everytownland.com/offaly/whigsborough.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/lowerheath - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/lowerheath