Roundhill

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roundhill, from 806 m² to 157,645 m² (15.76 ha, 38.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Roundhill 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  the amendment to the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) omitting 4 previously approved No. Lean-to Type Houses (Previous Ref: E 1-4), and replacing with 3 No. Portal Frame type houses (Ref: E1-3), and, b) providing for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm, resulting in an increase in breeding stock and a reduction in production pigs, at Roundhill and Derry Upper, Kilcormac, Co. Offaly. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560468

• 1 Oct 2025N/a

  The development will consist of : planning permission to amend the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) omitting 4 previously approved No. Lean-to Type Houses (Previous Ref: E 1-4), and replacing with 3 No. Portal Frame type houses (Ref: E1-3), and, b) providing for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm, resulting in an increase in breeding stock and a reduction in production pigs,

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560459

• 15 Sept 2025N/a

  the amendment to the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) replacing houses Ref: E 1-4, with houses Ref: E1-3, and, b) provide for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560422

• 14 Jul 2025N/a

  an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm from that as approved by Offaly Co. Co. under Planning Ref: 23/60196 (approved 06/12/2024).

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560305

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  To demolish 4 No. existing pig houses and to construct 6 No. pig houses and extensions to 2 No. existing pig houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s)) and associated site works arising from the above proposed development on an existing pig farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360196

• 13 Nov 2023N/a

  demolition of 4 No. existing pig houses and to construct 6 No. pig houses and extensions to 2 No. existing pig houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s)) and associated site works arising from the above proposed development on an existing pig farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360185

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 Roundhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roundhill.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roundhill.

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

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

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

Name

Roundhill · An Chorr

Area

489,086 m² (48.91 ha, 120.86 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Drumcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcullen electoral division: 454 people in 152 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyroe, Colmanstown, Curragh Lower, Derry Upper, Thomastown Demesne

Placenames

Roundhill 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.