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

Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Muirbheach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,618,265 m² (161.83 ha, 399.88 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,026 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rahan, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/rahan.md
- Barony: Ballycowan
- Electoral division: Rahan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42219
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180983
- Centre: latitude 53.282663, longitude -7.595331 (WGS 84)

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

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murragh, from 111 m² to 166,963 m² (16.7 ha, 41.26 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 296287: 166,963 m² (16.7 ha, 41.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296287.md
- Parcel 294430: 160,281 m² (16.03 ha, 39.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294430.md
- Parcel 4437497: 139,735 m² (13.97 ha, 34.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4437497.md
- Parcel 281908: 132,200 m² (13.22 ha, 32.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281908.md
- Parcel 276125: 130,638 m² (13.06 ha, 32.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276125.md
- Parcel 282513: 127,717 m² (12.77 ha, 31.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282513.md
- Parcel 271135: 82,458 m² (8.25 ha, 20.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271135.md
- Parcel 274442: 73,058 m² (7.31 ha, 18.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274442.md
- Parcel 296535: 66,643 m² (6.66 ha, 16.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296535.md
- Parcel 4437396: 66,003 m² (6.6 ha, 16.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4437396.md
- Parcel 284194: 65,245 m² (6.52 ha, 16.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284194.md
- Parcel 276127: 36,448 m² (3.64 ha, 9.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276127.md
- Parcel 296536: 28,944 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296536.md
- Parcel 276126: 27,914 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276126.md
- Parcel 284455: 26,208 m² (2.62 ha, 6.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284455.md
- Parcel 296537: 22,342 m² (2.23 ha, 5.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296537.md
- Parcel 277486: 8,221 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277486.md
- Parcel 310164: 5,090 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310164.md
- Parcel 275724: 3,955 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275724.md
- Parcel 269340: 3,301 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269340.md
- Parcel 276410: 3,287 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276410.md
- Parcel 4639256: 3,114 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4639256.md
- Parcel 300952: 3,038 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300952.md
- Parcel 287903: 3,015 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287903.md
- Parcel 285503: 2,995 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285503.md
- Parcel 293533: 2,987 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293533.md
- Parcel 276128: 2,963 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276128.md
- Parcel 2474877: 2,706 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474877.md
- Parcel 295122: 2,531 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295122.md
- Parcel 301128: 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301128.md
- Parcel 5222720: 2,491 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5222720.md
- Parcel 287855: 2,351 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287855.md
- Parcel 308681: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308681.md
- Parcel 275428: 2,176 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275428.md
- Parcel 302087: 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302087.md
- Parcel 2474606: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474606.md
- Parcel 271079: 1,905 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/271079.md
- Parcel 304140: 1,868 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/304140.md
- Parcel 4437480: 1,594 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4437480.md
- Parcel 5793980: 1,578 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5793980.md
- Parcel 273930: 1,513 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273930.md
- Parcel 314474: 1,359 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/314474.md
- Parcel 311264: 1,335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311264.md
- Parcel 301249: 1,156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301249.md
- Parcel 4909313: 697 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4909313.md
- Parcel 294868: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/294868.md

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

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.

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

2 applications, newest first.

- 7 Sept 2026, Offaly County Council 2660478: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660478/0
- 28 May 2025, Offaly County Council 2554: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2554/0

Applicants are not shown.

## 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 Murragh.

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

- OF016-082: Enclosure - large enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-082----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14916012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14916012. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1880.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/murragh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/murragh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/murragh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Murragh 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)

- Aghalusky: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghalusky.md
- Ballykeenaghan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballykeenaghan.md
- Kilgortin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilgortin.md
- Killina: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killina.md
- Loughroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/loughroe.md
- Tullybeg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tullybeg.md
- Tullymorerahan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tullymorerahan.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/murragh
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/murragh