Mossfield

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mossfield, from 105 m² to 411,995 m² (41.2 ha, 101.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mossfield 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.

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  a new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460217

• 7 Jun 2024N/a

  a new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460212

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE, CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17191

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 Mossfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mossfield.

Architectural heritage

• Mossfield House, country house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement with attic storey country house, built c.1760 and remodelled c.1840, with central pedimented breakfront, entrance porch, extension to rear and flanked by single-storey lean-to bays. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative bargeboards to gables. Ruled and lined rendered walls with carved sandstone ogee cornice. Square-headed window openings to front elevation have flanking panelled pilasters supporting an entablature. Windows to ground floor with rosettes to entablature. Round-headed window opening flanked by narrow lights to entrance bay with round-headed window opening to attic storey above. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation with timber sash window and sandstone sills. Timber and glazed entrance porch with square-headed window opening within. Tooled limestone architrave surround and timber panelled and glazed double doors flanked by sidelights. Door accessed up eight limestone steps. Walled garden to south of house. Modern outbuildings to rear site. Square-profile stone entrance piers to road flanked by quadrant walls.

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

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 Mossfield.

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.

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

Name

Mossfield · Caonachán

Area

1,609,495 m² (160.95 ha, 397.71 acres)

Civil parish

Seirkieran, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Seirkieran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Seirkieran electoral division: 497 people in 163 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygaddy, Dromoyle, Grange, Island, Oakleypark

Placenames

Mossfield 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.