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

Townland in the civil parish of Letterluna, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Seisceann.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,077,506 m² (207.75 ha, 513.36 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,033 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Letterluna, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/letterluna.md
- Barony: Ballybritt
- Electoral division: Letter, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 161 people lived in 55 households in the Letter electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/41465
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181088
- Centre: latitude 53.123082, longitude -7.624683 (WGS 84)

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

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheskin, from 404 m² to 885,572 m² (88.56 ha, 218.83 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 300161: 885,572 m² (88.56 ha, 218.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300161.md
- Parcel 314020: 377,117 m² (37.71 ha, 93.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314020.md
- Parcel 313261: 177,074 m² (17.71 ha, 43.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313261.md
- Parcel 271613: 130,614 m² (13.06 ha, 32.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271613.md
- Parcel 314009: 99,637 m² (9.96 ha, 24.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314009.md
- Parcel 314010: 64,874 m² (6.49 ha, 16.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314010.md
- Parcel 314018: 55,360 m² (5.54 ha, 13.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314018.md
- Parcel 300152: 44,033 m² (4.4 ha, 10.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300152.md
- Parcel 300158: 37,920 m² (3.79 ha, 9.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300158.md
- Parcel 3758506: 35,015 m² (3.5 ha, 8.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3758506.md
- Parcel 314021: 31,499 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314021.md
- Parcel 300159: 27,033 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300159.md
- Parcel 314017: 25,912 m² (2.59 ha, 6.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314017.md
- Parcel 297373: 23,289 m² (2.33 ha, 5.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297373.md
- Parcel 310982: 20,878 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310982.md
- Parcel 314019: 17,785 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314019.md
- Parcel 2487344: 6,705 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487344.md
- Parcel 286684: 4,554 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286684.md
- Parcel 3758653: 3,590 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3758653.md
- Parcel 305348: 2,372 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305348.md
- Parcel 302941: 2,239 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302941.md
- Parcel 5517207: 1,980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5517207.md
- Parcel 4647040: 404 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4647040.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Sheskin 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)

8 applications, newest first.

- 29 Mar 2021, Offaly County Council 21163: Conditional. Retention. AN EXISTING SLATTED TANK AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SUBSEQUENTLY PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21163/0
- 16 Mar 2021, Offaly County Council 21134: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A 280 CUBIC METER WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THIS APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21134/0
- 22 Feb 2021, Offaly County Council 2176: N/a. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 280 CUBIC METER WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THIS APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2176/0
- 22 Jan 2021, Offaly County Council 2122: N/a. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 280 CUBIC METER WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THIS APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (N.I.S.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2122/0
- 28 Aug 2020, Offaly County Council 20399: Conditional. Retention. THE EXISTING ACCESS ROADWAY FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD TO THE RESERVOIR SITE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20399/0
- 11 Oct 2019, Offaly County Council 19483: Refused. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF 150 CUBIC METER WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR ON AN EXISTING SITE AND CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING WATER MAINS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19483/0
- 11 Dec 2018, Offaly County Council 18561: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF SLATTED SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18561/0
- 20 Nov 2018, Offaly County Council 18515: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF 150 CUBIC METER WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR ON EXISTING SITE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING WATER MAINS. THIS APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (N.I.S.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18515/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheskin.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Sheskin, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sheskin.
- 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/sheskin.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sheskin.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sheskin.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Sheskin 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)

- Ballynahown (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/ballynahown.md
- Barlahan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/barlahan.md
- Coolacrease: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolacrease.md
- Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/offaly/deerpark-180558.md
- Killinaparson (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/killinaparson.md
- Magherabane: https://everytownland.com/offaly/magherabane-180939.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/sheskin
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/sheskin