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

Townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cró an Ruiséalaigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 459,669 m² (45.97 ha, 113.59 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,754 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumcullen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/drumcullen.md
- Barony: Eglish
- Electoral division: Drumcullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 454 people lived in 152 households in the Drumcullen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/41299
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181073
- Centre: latitude 53.12839, longitude -7.802233 (WGS 84)

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

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Russellspenn, from 849 m² to 261,230 m² (26.12 ha, 64.55 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 274770: 261,230 m² (26.12 ha, 64.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274770.md
- Parcel 271492: 116,968 m² (11.7 ha, 28.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271492.md
- Parcel 6091395: 70,875 m² (7.09 ha, 17.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6091395.md
- Parcel 284288: 3,310 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284288.md
- Parcel 293178: 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293178.md
- Parcel 295441: 1,985 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/295441.md
- Parcel 283041: 1,777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283041.md
- Parcel 294550: 849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/294550.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Russellspenn 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 8 Feb 2021, Offaly County Council 2148: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND FUEL SHED, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING COMPRISING A PART TWO-STOREY HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS THERETO.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2148/0
- 5 Oct 2020, Offaly County Council 20476: Conditional. Permission. A 10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WHICH CONSISTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY (MEC) OF UP TO 45MW COMPRISING OF CA. 105,000 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF 38KV SUBSTATION (CA. 114.4M2 X 4.75 TALL), A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA. 18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED BUND (CA.55M2), ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO POWER HUBS (CA.15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA. 45.2HA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20476/0
- 11 Sept 2020, Offaly County Council 20432: N/a. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY (MEC) OF UP TO 45MW COMPRISING OF CA. 105,000NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS LAID OUT IN ARRAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF 38KV SUBSTATION (CA. 114.4M2 X 4.75 TALL), A TRANSFORMER UNIT (CA. 18M2 X 4M TALL) AND ASSOCIATED SITE BUND (CA.55M2), ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 16 NO POWER HUBS (CA.15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 10 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE FROM THE ADJOINING L7007 TO THE NORTH AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA WILL BE CA. 45.2HA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20432/0

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## 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 Russellspenn.

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Russellspenn.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Russellspenn, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Russellspenn.
- 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/russellspenn.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/russellspenn.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/russellspenn.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Russellspenn 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)

- Ballynamona Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynamona-glebe.md
- Coagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coagh-lower.md
- Garrysallagh Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/garrysallagh-glebe.md
- Mullanafawnia: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mullanafawnia.md
- Thomastown Demesne: https://everytownland.com/offaly/thomastown-demesne.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/russellspenn
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/russellspenn