Mountpleasant

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountpleasant, from 97 m² to 349,852 m² (34.99 ha, 86.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Mountpleasant 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.

• 9 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF BASEMENT LEVEL GARAGE AND CARPORT, SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING ELEVATONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21761

• 5 Nov 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF BASEMENT LEVEL GARAGE AND CARPORT, SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING ELEVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21690

• 11 Jun 2021Conditional

  INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS, ADDITIONAL ROOFLIGHTS, THE REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING CHIMNEY, ADJUSTMENTS TO AN EXISTING WINDOW TO THE SOUTH EAST ELEVATION TO FORM A PROPOSED ENTRANCE DOOR AND ADDITIONAL PROPOSED WINDOWS ON THIS FACADE. SAINT EVEHY'S CHURCH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED UNDER THE RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES IN THE OFFALY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN (RPS REF. 32-02)

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21363

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH PART OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING AND RENOVATE REMAINING PART OF OUTBUILDING. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A GRANNY FLAT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19310

• 14 Jun 2019N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING, AND RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO GRANNY FLAT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19284

• 14 Sept 2018Conditional

  A DOMESTIC SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 18395

• 24 Apr 2018Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW STYLE DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND THE ERECTION OF A SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18181

• 7 Mar 2017N/a

  PROPOSED EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE, AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1785

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pallas Lough 000916

Recorded monuments

• OF024-018 House - fortified house
  Description

  Unlocated house indicated on the Down Survey (1654-7) map (NLI, MS 716). The SMR office has marked the ruins of Mountpleasant House on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map as the possible site for this house that is marked on the 17th century map. No surface remains of any dwelling pre-1700 in area where the ruins of Mountpleasant House is indicated on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Only a few scattered stones protrude from the surface of the ground in the area where Mountpleasant House is indicated on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 June 2016

• OF024-030 Burial ground
  Description

  19th century Church of Ireland church located in centre of graveyard which appears to be post-1700 AD in date (Shaw Rev. 1971, 58). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Evehy's Church (Killoughy), church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former Church of Ireland church, built in 1818, with three-bay nave, two-stage pinnacled tower, curved ashlar spire and diagonal buttresses to west and extension to south. Set back from road within graveyard. Pitched slate roof with yellow brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth to tower. Limestone string course, crenellated limestone parapet with pinnacles and limestone spire to tower. Pointed-arched window openings with diamond pane windows with stone sills to nave and larger pointed-arched window with timber mullions and diamond pane window to east. Four-centered arched door opening with tooled limestone surround and hoodmoulding. Limestone threshold and timber panelled double doors. Square-headed door opening to extension with glazed and timber door. Upright and recumbent grave markers bound church. Ashlar limestone gate piers with wrought-iron gates give access to site. Bounded by random coursed stone wall covered by roughcast render with stone coping.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountpleasant.

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.

• Mountpleasant, Blueball6 sales

Name

Mountpleasant · Ceapaigh an Gharráin

Area

2,747,275 m² (274.73 ha, 678.87 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

Ballynacanty, Clonterlough, Cooldorragh Glebe, Curraghmeelagh, Derrylahan, Hollimshill, Lugamarla, Pallaspark

Placenames

Mountpleasant 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.