Murragh

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murragh, from 111 m² to 166,963 m² (16.7 ha, 41.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Murragh 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.

• 7 Sept 2026N/a

  removal of 10 no. existing floodlights/timber posts and replace with 6 no. new galvanised steel floodlights to serve existing pitch and all associated site development works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660478

• 28 May 2025Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2554

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 Murragh.

Recorded monuments

• OF016-082 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained lands on the floodplains of the River Clodiagh immediately to S. Outline of large circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 84m) defined by an earthen bank and fosse clearly visible at N and intersected at W and E by field boundaries running N-S. Outline of monument is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 18/01/2019. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 18/01/2019 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ed O'Donovan Date of upload: 09 April 2019

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with lobby-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with decorative knotting and exposed scolloping to ridge and twine to eaves. Rendered chimneys. Pebbledashed stone walls. Timber sash windows. Porch with pitched slate roof, windows in side-walls and replacement timber door with sidelights. House sited at end of long avenue and along one side of triangular-plan farmyard with outbuildings to other sides with rendered concrete and stone wall and pitched corrugated roofs.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1880 (ZIP).

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 Murragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Murragh · Muirbheach

Area

1,618,265 m² (161.83 ha, 399.88 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Rahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahan electoral division: 753 people in 243 households; 88% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalusky, Ballykeenaghan, Kilgortin, Killina, Loughroe, Tullybeg, Tullymorerahan

Placenames

Murragh 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.