# Shelbourne, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lusmagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Ais Láir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 148,942 m² (14.89 ha, 36.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,519 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lusmagh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/lusmagh.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Lusmagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 548 people lived in 193 households in the Lusmagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41504 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181087 - Centre: latitude 53.172495, longitude -8.02566 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shelbourne, from 1,265 m² to 51,253 m² (5.13 ha, 12.66 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4904986: 51,253 m² (5.13 ha, 12.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904986.md - Parcel 2388276: 43,531 m² (4.35 ha, 10.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388276.md - Parcel 272934: 41,742 m² (4.17 ha, 10.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272934.md - Parcel 296767: 39,670 m² (3.97 ha, 9.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296767.md - Parcel 274566: 12,519 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274566.md - Parcel 301995: 4,686 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301995.md - Parcel 2388277: 3,559 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388277.md - Parcel 277619: 1,725 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/277619.md - Parcel 276705: 1,265 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/276705.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Shelbourne 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 11 Jun 2026, Offaly County Council 2660313: Conditional. Permission. to construct a new community playground and allotment area with associated works on lands leased from St. Cronan’s Parish, Lusmagh, Co. Offaly; to include playground equipment and safety surfacing, new lighting columns, a new footpath adjacent to the public road, connection to the public water mains, a walking track, bench seating, bicycle parking, an allotment area, boundary treatment, storage shed for garden tools, 10m x 8m stretch tent canopy with bark mulch flooring and all associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660313/0 - 2 Jun 2026, Offaly County Council 2660293: N/a. Permission. the construction of a new community playground and allotment area with associated works on lands leased from St.Cronan’s Parish, Lusmagh, Co. Offaly; to include playground equipment and safety surfacing, new lighting columns, a new footpath adjacent to the public road, connection to the public water mains, a walking track, bench seating, bicycle parking, an allotment area, boundary treatment, storage shed for garden tools, 10m x 8m stretch tent canopy with bark mulch flooring and all associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660293/0 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 Shelbourne. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shelbourne. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shelbourne. ## 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 Shelbourne, 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 Shelbourne. - 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/shelbourne.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/shelbourne.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/shelbourne.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Shelbourne 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) - Cloghan Beg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghan-beg.md - Gortarevan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortarevan.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/shelbourne - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/shelbourne