# Ouris, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunkerrin, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cnoc an Amhrais. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 591,693 m² (59.17 ha, 146.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 91,447 m² (9.14 ha, 22.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunkerrin, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/dunkerrin.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Dunkerrin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Dunkerrin electoral division: 385 people in 131 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% 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/41826 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181002 - Centre: latitude 52.924674, longitude -7.875995 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ouris, from 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 192,473 m² (19.25 ha, 47.56 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 310403: 192,473 m² (19.25 ha, 47.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310403.md - Parcel 295239: 165,901 m² (16.59 ha, 41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295239.md - Parcel 303347: 100,784 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303347.md - Parcel 293065: 82,110 m² (8.21 ha, 20.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293065.md - Parcel 275004: 48,056 m² (4.81 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275004.md - Parcel 306820: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306820.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ouris 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 Ouris in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Ouris. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF045-025: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF045-025----. Situated on top of an E-W ridge in undulating countryside. Circular area (diam 27m E-W; 25m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 1m) with causeway entrance (Wth 3m) at NE. Inner bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) is not as well preserved as the outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1m) which has a sharper profile and appears to be of recent construction. It is also planted with trees and shrubs. The site appears to be a ringfort which has been reused as a tree ring by the addition of an outer bank which has been planted with trees. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ouris. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Ouris. - 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/ouris.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ouris.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ouris.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ouris 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) - Ballynakill (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballynakill.md - Ballystanly: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballystanly.md - Brockernagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brockernagh.md - Clashagad Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clashagad-lower.md - Clashagad Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clashagad-upper.md - Clonagannagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonagannagh.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. --- 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/ouris - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ouris