Sharavogue

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sharavogue, from 277 m² to 260,321 m² (26.03 ha, 64.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Sharavogue 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Sharavogue in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Sharavogue Bog SAC 000585
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sharavogue Bog 000585

Recorded monuments

• OF038-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Field ploughed at time of visit. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

Architectural heritage

• Sharavogue House, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey Tudor style former gate lodge, built c.1820, with modern extension to rear. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, decorative bargeboards and pendant to gable. Ruled and lined rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone label mouldings and cast-iron windows. Pointed-arched door opening with timber battened door. Front site enclosed behind wrought-iron railings and pedestrian gate.

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry bridge, constructed c.1858, carrying the Shinrone Birr road over the disused Birr Roscrea railway line. Erected by the Roscrea and Parsonstown Railway Company. Rock-faced limestone parapets, piers and embankments and arch rings. Brick lined soffit to arch. Horizontal tooling to coping on parapet and on imposts. The sandstone rock-faced parapets are linked by a random coursed wall. Situated beside Sharavogue Bridge which carried the road over the Little Brosna River.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Sharavogue.

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

Name

Sharavogue · Searbhóg

Area

1,905,899 m² (190.59 ha, 470.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Kilcolman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcolman electoral division: 398 people in 143 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincor Demesne, Boveen, Rath Beg, Rath More

Placenames

Sharavogue 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.