# Sconce, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killoughy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Sconsa. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 290,904 m² (29.09 ha, 71.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,953 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications 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): Killoughy electoral division: 771 people in 261 households; 82% of households own 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/42181 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181076 - Centre: latitude 53.211046, longitude -7.565904 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sconce, from 202 m² to 140,388 m² (14.04 ha, 34.69 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 305284: 140,388 m² (14.04 ha, 34.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305284.md - Parcel 293423: 51,726 m² (5.17 ha, 12.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293423.md - Parcel 309932: 34,642 m² (3.46 ha, 8.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309932.md - Parcel 282080: 22,206 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282080.md - Parcel 294206: 18,056 m² (1.81 ha, 4.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294206.md - Parcel 271307: 9,651 m² (0.97 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271307.md - Parcel 5521580: 3,953 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5521580.md - Parcel 274158: 2,526 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274158.md - Parcel 5601197: 2,413 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5601197.md - Parcel 308782: 2,030 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308782.md - Parcel 305524: 1,803 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305524.md - Parcel 5601232: 945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5601232.md - Parcel 313089: 202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/313089.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Sconce 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 22 Oct 2025, Offaly County Council 25105: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a machinery shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/25105/0 - 26 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2592: N/a. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MACHINERY SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2592/0 - 31 Oct 2018, Offaly County Council 18483: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18483/0 - 30 Oct 2018, Offaly County Council 18478: Conditional. Permission. REPLACEMENT UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TO A NEW LOCATION, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18478/0 - 3 Aug 2018, Offaly County Council 18338: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. ERECTION OF A NEW 2 STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND THE ERECTION OF A NEW SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18338/0 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 Sconce. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sconce. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sconce. ## 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 Sconce. - 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/sconce.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sconce.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sconce.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Sconce 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) - Ballynacanty: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynacanty.md - Derrylahan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrylahan-180601.md - Killurin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killurin.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/sconce - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/sconce