Lugamarla
Townland in the civil parish of Killoughy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly; in Irish Log an Mharla
- Area
- 129.6 ha
- 320 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 5,037 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lugamarla, from 25 m² to 180,318 m² (18.03 ha, 44.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lugamarla 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2025Conditional
the Construction of a machinery shed and all associated site works at Lugamarla, Mountbolus, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560676
16 Dec 2025N/a
Construction of a machinery shed and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560649
26 Nov 2025Conditional
as constructed dwelling. The application will also include retention for existing rear garage. It should be noted that the applicant was granted permission for a single story dwelling on this site. The previous application reference was 02/1160
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560596
11 Nov 2025N/a
as constructed dwelling. The application will also include retention for existing rear garage. It should be noted that the applicant was granted permission for a single story dwelling on this site. The previous application reference was 02/1160
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560549
15 Jul 2025N/a
amendments made to previously granted four bedroom dwelling. The application will also include retention for existing rear garage. Please note the previous application reference was 02/1160
Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2560310
4 Jun 2025N/a
amendments made to previously granted four bedroom dwelling. The application will also include retention for existing rear garage. Please note the previous application reference was 02/1160
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560219
1 May 2025N/a
amendments made to previously granted four bedroom dwelling. The application will also include retention for existing rear garage. Please note the previous application reference was 02/1160
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560150
27 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21241
16 Feb 2018Conditional
AN EXTENSION TO HOUSE FORMING A KITCHEN DINING ROOM, BATHROOM AND LIVING ROOM ON GROUND FLOOR AND BEDROOM ENSUITE AT DORMER LEVEL, ALSO NEW RELOCATED BORED WELL
Permission · Offaly County Council, 1870
13 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED/ FUEL STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17130
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lugamarla.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lugamarla.
Architectural heritage
- The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan multiple-bay three-storey rectory, built in 1908, with lean-to bay to north adjoining hipped extension and advanced single-bay single-storey to south. Set within its own grounds. Pitched tiled roof with oversailing eaves, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cat-slide roof to south. Timber bargeboards to gables. Half-dormer windows to east and west. Dormer window to south. Tooled limestone plinth with red brick to ground floor surmounted by cornice with pebbledashed render to first floor. Varied timber casement windows with red brick sills. Square-headed door opening with sidelight to north, timber panelled door and limestone step. Date stone with 'JB 1908' inscribed set in ground by door. Hipped pebbledashed garage to north with timber battened sliding doors. Splayed entrance with rendered piers and wrought-iron railings and gate.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Lugamarla.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lugamarla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Lugamarla · Log an Mharla
- Area
- 1,295,571 m² (129.56 ha, 320.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoughy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballyboy
- Electoral division
- Killoughy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killoughy electoral division: 771 people in 261 households; 82% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyealan, Ballynacanty, Cooldorragh Glebe, Curraghmeelagh, Mountpleasant, Mullaghcrohy, Rathrobin
- Placenames
- Lugamarla 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.