# Magherabane, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Machaire Bán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 986,729 m² (98.67 ha, 243.83 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 850 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md
- Barony: Garrycastle
- Electoral division: Cloghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/41209
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180940
- Centre: latitude 53.220632, longitude -7.875934 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherabane, from 118 m² to 85,786 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 287152: 85,786 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287152.md
- Parcel 293881: 74,292 m² (7.43 ha, 18.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293881.md
- Parcel 294747: 65,721 m² (6.57 ha, 16.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294747.md
- Parcel 311863: 65,292 m² (6.53 ha, 16.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311863.md
- Parcel 297132: 55,493 m² (5.55 ha, 13.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297132.md
- Parcel 293404: 54,522 m² (5.45 ha, 13.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293404.md
- Parcel 2626738: 51,950 m² (5.19 ha, 12.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2626738.md
- Parcel 276511: 48,249 m² (4.82 ha, 11.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276511.md
- Parcel 287148: 47,416 m² (4.74 ha, 11.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287148.md
- Parcel 277517: 46,946 m² (4.69 ha, 11.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277517.md
- Parcel 306960: 42,817 m² (4.28 ha, 10.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306960.md
- Parcel 281849: 41,180 m² (4.12 ha, 10.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281849.md
- Parcel 290102: 32,364 m² (3.24 ha, 8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290102.md
- Parcel 291345: 29,478 m² (2.95 ha, 7.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291345.md
- Parcel 281846: 27,279 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281846.md
- Parcel 313822: 21,025 m² (2.1 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313822.md
- Parcel 291062: 17,799 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291062.md
- Parcel 305850: 16,591 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305850.md
- Parcel 281856: 14,767 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281856.md
- Parcel 5183770: 14,158 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5183770.md
- Parcel 284856: 13,084 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284856.md
- Parcel 314511: 11,577 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314511.md
- Parcel 305268: 10,935 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305268.md
- Parcel 283261: 9,830 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283261.md
- Parcel 298560: 8,902 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298560.md
- Parcel 302089: 8,827 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302089.md
- Parcel 2474497: 5,175 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474497.md
- Parcel 270600: 4,450 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270600.md
- Parcel 275616: 3,991 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275616.md
- Parcel 286848: 3,691 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286848.md
- Parcel 4687292: 3,461 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4687292.md
- Parcel 2388946: 3,164 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388946.md
- Parcel 291337: 2,905 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291337.md
- Parcel 277944: 2,610 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277944.md
- Parcel 4222459: 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222459.md
- Parcel 306901: 1,785 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306901.md
- Parcel 285068: 1,244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285068.md
- Parcel 274773: 1,155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/274773.md
- Parcel 273720: 1,137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273720.md
- Parcel 287578: 1,121 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287578.md
- Parcel 286851: 1,047 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/286851.md
- Parcel 272165: 1,022 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/272165.md
- Parcel 296525: 1,016 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296525.md
- Parcel 360190: 987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/360190.md
- Parcel 275742: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/275742.md
- Parcel 299838: 931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/299838.md
- Parcel 2501293: 889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501293.md
- Parcel 4687302: 850 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4687302.md
- Parcel 2501291: 786 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501291.md
- Parcel 290554: 714 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/290554.md
- Parcel 6035937: 590 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6035937.md
- Parcel 293400: 546 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/293400.md
- Parcel 2481943: 457 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481943.md
- Parcel 284132: 448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/284132.md
- Parcel 292533: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/292533.md
- Parcel 283106: 420 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283106.md
- Parcel 280030: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/280030.md
- Parcel 285264: 395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285264.md
- Parcel 282900: 380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282900.md
- Parcel 280262: 379 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/280262.md
- Parcel 2449513: 376 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2449513.md
- Parcel 286235: 375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/286235.md
- Parcel 287503: 375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287503.md
- Parcel 282640: 372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282640.md
- Parcel 291125: 345 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291125.md
- Parcel 2481976: 344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481976.md
- Parcel 291537: 338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291537.md
- Parcel 283607: 338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283607.md
- Parcel 288748: 338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/288748.md
- Parcel 2481959: 336 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481959.md
- Parcel 2481957: 335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481957.md
- Parcel 2481956: 331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481956.md
- Parcel 2481964: 330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481964.md
- Parcel 280301: 328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/280301.md
- Parcel 2481961: 327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481961.md
- Parcel 283122: 324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283122.md
- Parcel 2481963: 324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481963.md
- Parcel 278665: 318 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/278665.md
- Parcel 4642065: 318 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4642065.md
- Parcel 279842: 317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/279842.md
- Parcel 282358: 316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282358.md
- Parcel 2481954: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481954.md
- Parcel 2481953: 307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481953.md
- Parcel 2481973: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481973.md
- Parcel 282566: 305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282566.md
- Parcel 2481965: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481965.md
- Parcel 278083: 299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/278083.md
- Parcel 2481971: 298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481971.md
- Parcel 285265: 295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285265.md
- Parcel 2481946: 285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481946.md
- Parcel 2481951: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481951.md
- Parcel 284570: 270 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/284570.md
- Parcel 2481947: 257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481947.md
- Parcel 2481948: 255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481948.md
- Parcel 360648: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/360648.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 50 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=3
- M1 Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 10 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=2
- G5 Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=6
- C3 Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=4
- S5 Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=6

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

8 applications, newest first.

- 22 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2560185: Conditional. Retention. levelling the land of the proposed new wild flower and football pitch area which included installation of land drainage pipes to same and also to apply for Planning Permission to extend the existing facilities site boundaries to include a powder coated fence to the eastern boundary to match existing and native hedgerow to the southern boundary and 1m high rendered block wall to the western boundary to match existing wall, to extend 1.2m wide walking track around same to match the existing walking track, install seating and bicycle parking, a wild flower area, a new football pitch with ball stop nets, LED flood lighting and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560185/0
- 3 Mar 2025, Offaly County Council 2560059: N/a. Permission. extension of the existing facilities site boundaries to include a powder coated fence to the eastern boundary to match existing and native hedgerow to the southern boundary and 1m high rendered block wall to the western boundary to match existing wall, to extend 1.2m wide walking track around same to match the existing walking track, install seating and bicycle parking and 15no. additional car parking spaces along with 2no. marked coach parking areas to existing parking area, a wild flower area, a new football pitch with ball stop nets, LED flood lighting and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560059/0
- 13 Dec 2024, Offaly County Council 2460509: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolition of two existing single storey rear extensions, renovation of an existing 2-storey house and construction of new 2-storey rear extension, and conversion of an existing rear outbuilding into a residential unit. The house is a Protected Structure. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460509/0
- 6 Dec 2024, Offaly County Council 24174: N/a. Permission. THE EXTENTION TO EXISITNG FACILITIES SITE BOUNDARIES TO INCLUDE A POWDER COATED FENCE TO THE EASTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING AND NATIVE HEDGEROW TO THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY AND 1M HIGH RENDERED BLOCK WALL TO THE WESTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING WALL, TO EXTEND 1.2M WIDE WALKING TRACK AROUND SAME TO MATCH THE EXISITNG WALKING TRACK, INSTALL SEATING AND BICYCLE PARKING, A WILD FLOWER AREA, A NEW FOOTBALL PITCH WITH BALL STOP NETS, LED FLOOD LIGHTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/24174/0
- 5 Dec 2024, Offaly County Council 2460486: N/a. Permission. demolition of two existing single storey rear extensions, renovation of an existing 2-storey house and construction of new 2-storey rear extension, and conversion of an existing rear outbuilding into a residential unit. The house is a Protected Structure.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460486/0
- 14 Oct 2024, Offaly County Council 24151: N/a. Permission. EXTENDING THE EXISTING FACILITIES SITE BOUNDARIES TO INCLUDE A POWDER COATED FENCE TO THE EASTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING AND NATIVE HEDGEROW TO THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY AND 1M HIGH RENDERED BLOCK WALL TO THE WESTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING WALL, TO EXTEND 1.2M WIDE WALKING TRACK AROUND SAME TO MATCH THE EXISTING WALKING TRACK, INSTALL SEATING AND BICYCLE PARKING, A WILD FLOWER AREA, A NEW FOOTBALL PITCH WITH BALL STOP NETS, LED FLOOD LIGHTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/24151/0
- 20 Dec 2023, Offaly County Council 23432: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION, CARRY OUT ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, ALTERATIONS TO BOUNDARY WALL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23432/0
- 1 Nov 2017, Offaly County Council 17428: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF MY EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17428/0

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## 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 Magherabane.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magherabane.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 14811001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14811001. Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with single bay to east incorporating integral carriage arch. Extension to rear. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth, string course and eaves course. Timber sash windows with painted sills. Segmental-headed door opening with spoked fanlight, sidelights and timber panelled door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with roughcast rendered walls, corrugated-iron roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed stone wall bounds rear site.

## 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 Magherabane, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magherabane.
- 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/magherabane-180940.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/magherabane-180940.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/magherabane-180940.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Magherabane 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)

- Cloghan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghan-180347.md
- Coolreagh or Cloghanhill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolreagh-or-cloghanhill.md
- Creggan and Glosterboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/creggan-and-glosterboy.md
- Stonestown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/stonestown.md
- Tonlemone: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tonlemone.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.

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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.

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