# Spink, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Letterluna, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Spinc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 774,601 m² (77.46 ha, 191.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,873 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 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/41466 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181095 - Centre: latitude 53.110886, longitude -7.636484 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Spink, from 397 m² to 500,551 m² (50.06 ha, 123.69 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 310091: 500,551 m² (50.06 ha, 123.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310091.md - Parcel 308610: 100,633 m² (10.06 ha, 24.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308610.md - Parcel 271627: 79,055 m² (7.91 ha, 19.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271627.md - Parcel 302926: 43,025 m² (4.3 ha, 10.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302926.md - Parcel 271629: 13,883 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271629.md - Parcel 314022: 13,607 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314022.md - Parcel 271636: 8,857 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271636.md - Parcel 361159: 8,435 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361159.md - Parcel 302710: 5,311 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302710.md - Parcel 5936410: 3,813 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936410.md - Parcel 302927: 2,585 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302927.md - Parcel 5936365: 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936365.md - Parcel 5936377: 2,373 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936377.md - Parcel 5936357: 2,195 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936357.md - Parcel 5936459: 401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936459.md - Parcel 5603767: 397 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5603767.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Spink 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) No planning application touches the townland of Spink in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412 - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF037-010: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF037-010----. Situated on SW facing slope of rising ground in upland area. Oval shaped area (diam 17.5m N-S; 18.2m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.8m; int. H 0.5m) and external fosse (Wth 0.7m; ext. D 0.5m) visible at S only with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.3m) at NW. The well preserved profiles of both the bank and narrow deep fosse would suggest that the site is of fairly recent origin. This is backed up by the cartographic evidence which shows that the site is only marked on the last edition of the OS 6-inch map and not on the first two editions. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Spink. ## 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 Spink, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Spink. - 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/spink.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/spink.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/spink.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Spink 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) - Barlahan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/barlahan.md - Coolcreen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolcreen.md - Glenletter: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glenletter.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. --- 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/spink - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/spink