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

Townland in the civil parish of Killoughy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly; in Irish Páirc na Pailíse.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,131,469 m² (113.15 ha, 279.59 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,417 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Killoughy, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/killoughy.md
- Barony: Ballyboy
- Electoral division: Killoughy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 771 people lived in 261 households in the Killoughy electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/42179
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181004
- Centre: latitude 53.227914, longitude -7.60369 (WGS 84)

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

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pallaspark, from 1,937 m² to 878,456 m² (87.85 ha, 217.07 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5571888: 878,456 m² (87.85 ha, 217.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5571888.md
- Parcel 5818404: 202,720 m² (20.27 ha, 50.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5818404.md
- Parcel 307496: 13,163 m² (1.32 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307496.md
- Parcel 285241: 4,863 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285241.md
- Parcel 4679831: 4,745 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4679831.md
- Parcel 309869: 4,685 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309869.md
- Parcel 286468: 4,596 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286468.md
- Parcel 282881: 4,238 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282881.md
- Parcel 271303: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271303.md
- Parcel 277598: 2,064 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277598.md
- Parcel 270278: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270278.md
- Parcel 307099: 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307099.md
- Parcel 284225: 1,969 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/284225.md
- Parcel 286469: 1,937 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/286469.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Pallaspark 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 27 Nov 2017, Offaly County Council 17466: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF SLATTED SHED, SILAGE PIT & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17466/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pallas Lough, site code 000916

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

- OF024-015001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF024-015001-. Situated on S facing slope of a high ridge running E-W, a lake protects the S side of the site which has good views to the S, E and W. This site consists of a circular platform (OF024-015002-) defined by an earthen bank which is evident at W only with two wide flat bottomed fosses with high intervening earthen bank. The outer defences of the site have been greatly altered on the N and E sides while the lake provides a natural defence at S. Causeway entrance at W. In the centre of the platform are the ruins of a tower house (max. ext. dims. 10m N-S; 10m E-W; wall T 1.5m) with only the SW corner surviving to any height with wall footings elsewhere. A collpased portion of masonry displays evidence of wicker centring. No architectural features evident. This site may originally have been a large bivallate ringfort with later medieval Tower house built in the centre due to its defensive location on the side of a lake. Ancient fort of the Molloy's (Shaw 1971. 36). Early 17th centurybarony map of Ballyboy (PRO, MPF 268) shows small building at Pallas near the lake (Loeber 1988, vol. 5, 51) 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
- OF024-015002: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF024-015002-. Situated on S facing slope of a high ridge running E-W, a lake protects the S side of the site which has good views to the S, E and W. This site consists of a circular platform (diam. 70m E-W) defined by an earthen bank which is evident at W only with two wide flat bottomed fosses (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) with high intervening earthen bank (int. H 3m; Wth 1m). The outer defences of the site have been greatly altered on the N and E sides while the lake provides a natural defence at S. Causeway entrance (Wth 3m) at W. In the centre of the platform are the ruins of a tower house (OF024-015001-) with only the SW corner surviving to any height with wall footings elsewhere. No architectural features evident. This site may originally have been a large bivallate ringfort with later medieval tower house built in the centre due to its defensive location on the side of a lake. It has been suggested by Shaw that this earthwork was the ancient fort of the Molloy's (Shaw 1971. 36). Alternatively the enclosure may have been built as a contemporaneous defensive earthwork or bawn protecting the medieval tower house. 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/revision: 29 December 2011
- OF024-046: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF024-046----. This site has been levelled. The local farmer described the site as a circle of trees which had a fosse enclosing it all the way around. Probably a tree-ring associated with the nearby big house. Landscape feature possible 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 Pallaspark.

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

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Pallaspark, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pallaspark.
- 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/pallaspark.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pallaspark.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pallaspark.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Pallaspark 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)

- Curraghmeelagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curraghmeelagh.md
- Hollimshill: https://everytownland.com/offaly/hollimshill.md
- Lugglass: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lugglass.md
- Mountpleasant: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mountpleasant.md
- Pallas: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pallas.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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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.

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