# Minus Island, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Maínis.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 298,665 m² (29.87 ha, 73.8 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,478 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md
- Barony: Garrycastle
- Electoral division: Shannonharbour, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 363 people lived in 132 households in the Shannonharbour electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/41577
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180951
- Centre: latitude 53.214521, longitude -7.965477 (WGS 84)

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

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Minus Island, from 718 m² to 25,649 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres); 3 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 274044: 25,649 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274044.md
- Parcel 270048: 16,280 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270048.md
- Parcel 310054: 14,705 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310054.md
- Parcel 295877: 14,294 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295877.md
- Parcel 274637: 13,135 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274637.md
- Parcel 274310: 12,283 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274310.md
- Parcel 314500: 11,354 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314500.md
- Parcel 277506: 10,992 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277506.md
- Parcel 277538: 9,837 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277538.md
- Parcel 275739: 9,571 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275739.md
- Parcel 299070: 9,406 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299070.md
- Parcel 297128: 7,236 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297128.md
- Parcel 298728: 6,952 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298728.md
- Parcel 282857: 6,893 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282857.md
- Parcel 302285: 6,236 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302285.md
- Parcel 291757: 6,165 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291757.md
- Parcel 297786: 6,088 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297786.md
- Parcel 303544: 6,076 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303544.md
- Parcel 268984: 5,492 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268984.md
- Parcel 302432: 5,414 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302432.md
- Parcel 305844: 5,302 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305844.md
- Parcel 271535: 4,544 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271535.md
- Parcel 271739: 4,478 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271739.md
- Parcel 283925: 4,167 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283925.md
- Parcel 291956: 4,062 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291956.md
- Parcel 306955: 3,996 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306955.md
- Parcel 303508: 3,989 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303508.md
- Parcel 268655: 3,871 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268655.md
- Parcel 273052: 3,516 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273052.md
- Parcel 298556: 3,507 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298556.md
- Parcel 360353: 3,503 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360353.md
- Parcel 294736: 3,434 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294736.md
- Parcel 306602: 3,386 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306602.md
- Parcel 275691: 3,357 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275691.md
- Parcel 300110: 3,295 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300110.md
- Parcel 284125: 3,254 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284125.md
- Parcel 276602: 3,253 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276602.md
- Parcel 303200: 2,972 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303200.md
- Parcel 272159: 2,963 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272159.md
- Parcel 294591: 2,831 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294591.md
- Parcel 278865: 2,550 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278865.md
- Parcel 311017: 2,532 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311017.md
- Parcel 313205: 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313205.md
- Parcel 311856: 2,000 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311856.md
- Parcel 269912: 718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/269912.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Minus Island 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Minus Island in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC, site code 000216, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000216
- Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA, site code 004096, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004096
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows, site code 000216

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Minus Island.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Minus Island, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1584, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1584.zip (ZIP).
- 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/minus-island.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/minus-island.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/minus-island.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Minus Island 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)

- Bullock Island: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bullock-island.md
- Park: https://everytownland.com/offaly/park-181006.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/minus-island
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/minus-island