Smithstown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Smithstown, from 498 m² to 132,882 m² (13.29 ha, 32.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Smithstown 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 Smithstown 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Smithstown.

Recorded monuments

• OF014-047 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Situated on top of high ground in undulating countryside. Described in 1988 by the local landowner as 'about forty years ago, he found a horseshoe-shaped enclosure with large stone slabs inside, underneath he found a large amount of red and white ashes' (ASI file 1988). This is the site of a lime kiln of post-1700 AD date. 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

• OF022-010001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The well is now covered over by a large concrete slab for safety reasons and was impossible to examine as a result. No local tradition associated with well. Local landowner showed the SMR office these sites in June 1988. 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

• OF022-011 Graveslab
  Description

  Situated on flat low-lying land in undulating countryside. Known locally as the 'Friars Cross' this flat rectangular slab (L 1.2m; Wth 0.46m) has a simple ring headed cross decorated in relief with hollowed angles between the arms of the cross. No inscription visible on the graveslab. According to local tradition it marks the resting place of a Bishop Mac Coughlan who was killed in 1444. (Crawford 1916, 166; Cooke 1856-7, 380-5) 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

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

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 Smithstown.

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

Name

Smithstown · Baile an Ghabhann

Area

519,006 m² (51.9 ha, 128.25 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Gallen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gallen electoral division: 588 people in 203 households; 78% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingowan Glebe, Ballysheil, Cush East, Drishoge or Strawberryhill, Killowney More

Placenames

Smithstown 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.