Spollanstown
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Mhic Spolláin
- Area
- 146.1 ha
- 361 acres
- Land parcels
- 400
- registered freehold, median 381 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 66
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
400 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Spollanstown, from 5 m² to 178,762 m² (17.88 ha, 44.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 319 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Town Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.2Industrial and Warehousing (General industry)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S6Strategic Community Services/Facilities Reserve (Other community services/facilities uses)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Aug 2026N/a
the demolition of an existing shed and construction of a new residential development of 18no. dwellings, comprising of 6no. four-bedroom semi-detached units, 1no. four-bedroom detached unit, 6no. three-bedroom terraced units, 5no. two-bedroom terraced units and all associated site development works to complete to development including new site entrance from public road, alterations to the existing Spollanstown road, paths, paving, parking, bin stores, landscaped public open space, street lighting, boundary treatments, water services, foul and and storm drainage and attenuated outflow across adjacent lands to existing open drain
Permission, 18 homes · Offaly County Council, 2660417
20 Jul 2026N/a
demolition of an existing shed and construction of a new residential development of 18no. dwellings, comprising of 6no. four-bedroom semi-detached units, 1no. four-bedroom detached unit, 6no. three-bedroom terraced units, 5no. two-bedroom terraced units and all associated site development works to complete to development including new site entrance from public road, alterations to the existing Spollanstown road, paths, paving, parking, bin stores, landscaped public open space, street lighting, boundary treatments, water services, foul and and storm drainage and attenuated outflow across adjacent lands to existing open drain.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660388
26 Jan 2026Conditional
(A) ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE REDUCTION OF EXISTING LARGE WINDOW TO SITTING ROOM AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WINDOW, INSTALLATION OF ONE NUMBER NEW WINDOW TO EXISTING ENTRANCE HALL AND ONE NUMBER NEW WINDOW TO PROPOSED STAIRWELL. (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING REAR KITCHEN EXTENSION AND REPLACE WITH NEW EXTENSION TO REAR. (C) PERMISSION FOR ATTIC CONVERSION TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS AT GABLE LEVEL AND VELUX ROOF WINDOWS TO FRONT AND REAR. (D) PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BOUNDARY/ PERIMETER FENCING AND ENTRANCE GATE. (E) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR STEEL FRAME DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE AS CONSTRUCTED. (F) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DOMESTIC GARAGE CONVERSION TO GRANNY FLAT/ APARTMENT AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 267
17 Dec 2025N/a
OF STEEL FRAME DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE AS CONSTRUCTED. RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DOMESTIC GARAGE CONVERSION TO GRANNY FLAT/ APARTMENT AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. PLANNING PERMISSION AS FOLLOWS (A) TO DEMOLISH EXISTING REAR KITCHEN EXTENSION AND REPLACE WITH NEW EXTENSION TO REAR (B) ATTIC CONVERSION TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS AT GABLE LEVEL (C) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BOUNDARY/ PERIMETER FENCING AND ENTRANCE GATE
Retention · Offaly County Council, 25131
28 Nov 2025Conditional
Construction of a two-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, additional rooflights, window and door opes, all internal modifications and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 25120
13 Jun 2025Conditional
for partially constructed two-storey extension, permission to complete and all associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560236
18 Mar 2025Conditional
a) Construct a new 2 storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house / derelict structure; b). renovate the existing dwellinghouse / derelict structure; including elevational changes; c). demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house / derelict structure; d). construction of a garden shed (e). all associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560077
12 Feb 2025Conditional
the elevational and layout changes to the existing house previously granted under planning permission reference TU282895
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560035
13 Dec 2024N/a
a). Construct a new 2 storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house; b). renovate the existing dwellinghouse including elevational changes; c). demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house d). construction of a garden shed (e). all associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460508
11 Oct 2024N/a
a). Construct a new 2 storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house; b). renovate the existing dwellinghouse including elevational changes; c). demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house d). construction of a garden shed (e). all associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460403
9 Oct 2024Conditional
THE CONVERSION OF EXISTING HOUSE FROM A SINGLE STOREY TO A TWO-STOREY DWELLING, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND TO THE FRONT / SIDE WITH AN ADJOINING DOMESTIC GARAGE, WIDENING OF EXISTING ENTRANCE, ALTERATIONS TO OUT-BUILDINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24146
13 Sept 2024Conditional
construction of an extension to our existing dwelling. It is intended to convert the existing attic space into an extra bedroom The application will also include minor elevational changes and all associated site-works and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460357
22 Aug 2024Conditional
the extension of the existing boundaries, two new rugby pitches with associated floodlighting, ball stop netting and ancillary works and an illuminated walking track on the perimeter of the proposed development with associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460323
10 Aug 2024N/a
the extension of the existing boundaries, two new rugby pitches with associated floodlighting, ball stop netting and ancillary works and an illuminated walking track on the perimeter of the proposed development with associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460307
6 Aug 2024Conditional
(a) the demolition of an existing garage/utility to the side and conservatory to the rear of the existing dwelling (b) the renovation of the existing property with amendments to the existing external envelope (c) amendments to the existing roof including fabric upgrade and renewable technologies (d) a single storey extension to the rear of the existing property (e) a two-storey extension to the side of the existing property (f) a single story universally accessible lobby to the front of the existing dwelling, and (g) all required service connections, site boundary improvements and site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460300
26 Apr 2024N/a
Retention of partially constructed two-storey extension and permission to complete and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460146
10 Apr 2024Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2439
1 Mar 2024Conditional
the change of use of an existing industrial/warehouse unit to educational use, to provide 3 No. Classrooms for electrical apprenticeship programmes, along with ancillary spaces for Storage, Toilets, Canteen and Staff Canteen, together with all associated siteworks. The building is listed on the Record of Protected Structures in the Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027 under reference 23-242.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460060
13 Feb 2024Conditional
The development will consist of the demolition of an existing bungalow and garage and the construction of a new dwelling, the widening of an existing vehicular entrance and the proposed removal of a vehicular entrance, new boundary wall to front and all associated site works and services including hard and soft landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460041
1 Feb 2024N/a
the demolition of an existing bungalow and garage and the construction of a new dwelling, the widening of an existing vehicular entrance and the proposed removal of a vehicular entrance, new boundary wall to front and all associated site works and services including hard and soft landscaping
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460033
29 Jan 2024Conditional
retrofit, extend and alter existing dwelling to accommodate granny flat and all associated site works. Permission is also sought for a new domestic garage and to connect into all onsite existing services
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460023
22 Nov 2023Conditional
the installation of a 21 metres lattice telecommunications support structure carrying antennas, dish, remote radio units (RRU's), GPS together with ground based equipment, fencing, access gate, cabinets, concrete plinth and all associated site development works for wireless data and broadband services
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360200
15 Nov 2023N/a
Construction of an extension to existing dwelling. It is intended to convert the existing attic space into an extra bedroom. The application will also include minor elevational changes and all associated site-works and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360190
10 Nov 2023N/a
the installation of a 21 metres lattice telecommunications support structure carrying antennas, dish, remote radio units (RRU's), GPS, together with ground-based equipment, fencing, access gate, cabinets, concrete plinth and all associated site development works for wireless data and broadband services
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360178
8 Nov 2023N/a
Construction of an extension to existing dwelling. It is intended to convert the existing attic space into an extra bedroom. The application will also include minor elevational changes and all associated site-works and drainage.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360172
The 25 most recent of 66 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Spollanstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Spollanstown.
Architectural heritage
- Charleville House, officer's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace multiple-bay two-storey former gaol warden's house, built c.1860, with extensions to rear and advanced gable bay and porch to front. Now in private use. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and finial to gable. Timber bargeboards to pediment. Snecked dressed limestone walls with quoins. Replacement uPVC windows with molded red brick surrounds. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door with stained glass overlight and tooled stone step. Carved stone terrace and step to front. Outbuildings to rear. Terrace bounded by cast-iron railings surmounted on limestone wall with cast-iron gate piers and gates.
- Officer's house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced multiple-bay two-storey former gaol warden's house, built c.1860, with extension to rear. Now in private use. Set back from road. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and lean-to roof to porch. Snecked dressed limestone walls. Timber sash windows with moulded red brick surrounds and limestone sills. Half dormer to first floor with timber bargeboards. Square-headed door opening with tooled stone step with incised decoration to timber battened door. Outbuilding to rear.
- Officer's house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced multiple-bay two-storey gaol warden's house, built c.1860, with extension to rear and shared lean-to porch and half dormer windows to front. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked dressed limestone walls. Timber sash windows with red brick surrounds and tooled stone sills. Squared-headed door opening with red brick surround and timber battened door. Set back from street.
- Officer's house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace multiple-bay two-storey former gaol warden's house, built c.1860, with extension to rear and shared lean-to entrance porch and half dormer windows to front. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked dressed limestone walls. Timber sash windows with red brick surrounds and tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening with decorative bargeboards, red brick surrounds and timber battened door. Set back from street with lean-to yellow brick outbuilding to rear.
- Prison/jail, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Former gaol wall with three-storey keep-like entrance, built between 1826 and 1830, with segmental carriage arch opening to north-east. Modern mansard style roof above front elevation with dormer windows. Southern-light roof to rear mid twentieth-century factory. Dressed snecked limestone wall with tooled corbels supporting overhanging parapet. Entrance keep to south-west with towers flanking pointed-arched door opening with recessed double timber panelled doors. Arch above connecting towers with plaque. Plaque reads: 'The first stone of this prison was laid by Charles William Baron Tullamore on the 13th day of September in the year of our Lord 1826 under the 7th year of the reign of his most gracious majesty George the fourth. Commissioners Lord Baron Tullamore M. P., Colonel Thomas Bernard M. P., William Trench, John Head Drought, Valentine Bennett and Francis Berry Esquires. Engineer John Killay. Contractors Henry Mullins and McMahon, John Rafter Sculp.' Decorative machioclations, crenellations and loops to keep. Modern factory units to rear of site. Set back from road with front site bounded by cast-iron railings on battered ashlar limestone wall with pulvinated coping. Site accessed through cast-iron gate piers with decorative axe finial.
- Tullamore Courthouse, court house, 1830–1840 · National interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement neo-classical court house, built in 1833, with a projecting pedimented hexastyle Ionic portico, flanking four-bay recessed wings and return to rear with auxiliary building to south-east. Situated in its own grounds. Roof hidden by parapet and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone walls with plinth, channelling to ground floor, full-height pilasters surmounted by frieze and cornice and ashlar parapet. Main entrance set within Ionic portico with three round-headed door openings with tooled limestone pilasters flanking door, surmounted by cornice. Timber panelled double doors with spoked fanlights, accessed up limestone steps, with limestone slabs to entrance platform. Recessed wing with square-headed door opening, flanked by sidelights, surmounted by pediment supported by console brackets. Timber panelled double doors accessed up limestone steps. Entrance to return with square-headed door opening flanked by sidelights with frieze. Timber panelled door, accessed up limestone steps flanked by limestone plinth wall surmounted by cast-iron railings. Variety of window openings all with timber sash windows and stone sills. Windows to facade with square-headed opening recessed within round-headed limestone architrave with pilasters. Windows to recessed wings surmounted by pediment supported on console brackets. Windows to side elevations grouped in three surmounted by cornice, which rests on console brackets. Front site bounded by cast-iron railings on battered ashlar limestone wall with pulvinated coping. Cast-iron gate piers give access to site.
- Tullamore Courthouse, monument, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Limestone obelisk memorial, erected in 1939, situated in the grounds of Tullamore Courthouse. Stepped stone base surmounted by obelisk with flanking sides with wreath motif. North-west elevation with Irish inscription, carved plaque and Celtic banding, north-east elevation with English inscription. Inscriptions read: 'Their comrades in arms of Tullamore and America erected this memorial AD 1939 in lasting memory of the Irish Republican Army of Offaly area and suffered death for the sake of Ireland / Better worship one moment unfettered at liberty's shrine than slumber for ages in chains'. Obelisk surmounted by Celtic cross finial.
- Rock House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace double-pile three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820. Pitched double span slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledash render to walls. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Round-headed door opening with tooled stone surround comprising engaged Doric fluted columns flanking timber panelled door with timber spider web fanlight, accessed by tooled stone steps with wrought-iron railings. Front of site bounded by plinth wall with wrought-iron railings.
- House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1830, with square-headed integral carriage archway. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls with channelled rendered quoins. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Round-headed doorway with tooled stone surround and fluted engaged Doric columns, timber door and timber spoked fanlight. Cast-iron bootscraper to door with acanthus leaf and shell detail. Doorway accessible by tooled stone steps and wrought-iron railings.
- Park View House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1860, fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Roughcast render to walls. Replacement uPVC windows with painted sills. Round-headed doorway with tooled stone surround, timber spoked fanlight to doorway accessed up tooled stone steps. Wrought-iron railings to front of site.
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1860. Fronts onto street. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Roughcast render to walls. Replacement uPVC windows with painted sills. Round-headed door opening with tooled stone surround, timber spoked fanlight and timber door, accessed by tooled stone steps. Wrought-iron railings to front site.
- House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, with integral carriage arch. Also used as a doctor's surgery. Pitched slate roof with stone gable coping, terracotta cresting, smooth render to chimneystacks, terracotta chimney pots and tooled stone eaves course. Roughcast render to walls with smooth base plinth and channelled rendered quoins. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Round-headed door entrance with stone surround, timber spoked fanlight and timber door. Cast-iron lantern bracket above doorway, flanking cast-iron lanterns to side. Segmental headed archway to north of building with recessed double timber doors and tooled limestone wheel guard. Smooth rendered plinth wall with tooled stone coping and wrought-iron railings to front site.
- Barracks, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace corner-sited four-bay three-storey former barracks over basement, built c.1800, with integral carriage arch. Built as a single structure with building to east. Now used as a solicitors office. Fronts directly onto street. Hipped slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast render to walls. Timber sash windows with painted sills and cast-iron balconettes to first floor. Round-headed doorway with painted stone surround, timber spoked fanlight with timber door. Accessed by tooled stone steps. Integral carriage arch with double timber doors. Site surrounded by rendered plinth wall with tooled stone coping and wrought-iron railings. Cast and-wrought iron railings bound front site.
- Gaol Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch masonry bridge, built c.1859, carrying the Tullamore Kilcormac road over the Portarlington Athlone railway line. Erected by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company. Rock-faced limestone blocks, laid to courses with rusticated and margined quoins. Segmental profile arch with rusticated and margined voussoirs. Finely dressed string course. Spandrels and parapets are roughly dressed blocks randomly laid.
- Clonminch House, house, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, with extension to rear and timber and glazed conservatory to south-east. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and red brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods and limestone eaves course. Projecting bays flank central entrance. Red brick walls with limestone plinth, flush string course to ground floor and first floor window head level, moulded string course separating ground and first floor. Paired timber casement windows with fixed stained glass pane with limestone sills to projecting bays. Timber casement windows with stained glass and limestone sills to other elevations. Squared-headed door opening with stained glass and timber panelled double doors surmounted by stained glass overlight, recessed within square-headed porch with carved limestone frieze and cornice, limestone step to mosaic entrance platform. Front site bounded by random coursed walls with cow and calf coping with quadrant walls to entrance with rock-faced limestone gate piers and cast-iron gates.
- Tullamore House, barracks, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1800. Erected as a single structure with that to the west. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth render to basement. Timber sash windows with painted sills, replacement uPVC windows to basement. Round-headed door opening with tooled stone surround and decorative keystone to timber panelled door with spoked fanlight. Accessed via tooled stone steps. Set back from street with plinth wall with wrought-iron railings to front of site.
- Ivy House, house, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built in 1838, with return and extensions to rear. Set back from street. Pitched tiled roof with some rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth render to plinth with roughcast render to walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills to façade, replacement timber casement windows to rear elevation. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by stone engaged columns surmounted by spider web fanlight. Limestone steps give access to entrance with cast-iron boot scrapper. Roughcast rendered outbuilding to rear of site with pitched tiled roof. Smooth rendered plinth wall with limestone coping surmounted by wrought-iron railings bounds front of site. Rear site accessed through wrought-iron gates with single square-profile. Limestone gate pier with pyramidal capping stone.
- Bow House, house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built in 1838, with projecting full-height entrance bay. Set back from the street. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered plinth, ruled-and-lined walls to moulded parapet and channelled quoins. Replacement uPVC windows with stone sills. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door and fanlight surmounted by cornice supported on console brackets. Front site bounded by roughcast rendered plinth wall with curved limestone coping surmounted by wrought-iron railings. Cylindrical limestone gate piers with pyramidal capping stones and wrought-iron gates give access to front site.
- House, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built in 1838. Set back from the street. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth, roughcast rendered walls. Replacement timber casement windows with stone sills. Round-headed door opening recessed within smooth rendered coved surround with replacement timber door and fanlight. Front site bounded by smooth rendered plinth wall with curved limestone coping surmounted by wrought-iron railings and accessed through cylindrical stone gate piers with pyramidal capping stones and wrought-iron gate.
- House, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1838. Set back from street. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door and glazed fanlight, limestone step and threshold. Front of site bounded by modern rendered wall with metal gate.
- Dew Park, house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, with return to rear and full-height canted-bay and box-bay to front. Set within own grounds. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with rendered eaves and plinth courses and carved red sandstone string course and frieze and terracotta panels. Timber casement windows with tooled red sandstone sills. Round-arched opening to recessed porch with tiled hoodmoulding and fluted keystone, timber panelled door flanked by sidelights. Tooled limestone steps to porch with plinth walls. Snecked limestone outbuildings to rear with hipped and pitched roofs. Yellow brick to openings. Cast-iron weather vane to roof. Walled garden accessed through square-headed gateway with yellow brick to walls. Wrought-iron railings surmounted on limestone wall between rear garden and walled garden. Rendered gate piers to rear yard with ball finials and timber battened gates. Rendered sweeping walls and piers to entrance with cast-iron gates.
- Dupark, house, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey house, built in 1906 to a design by F. G. Hicks, with returns and extensions to rear, segmental-pedimented projecting bay to north-east angle, hexagonal projection to north-west angle, and timber and glazed porch to front. Designed in a cottage ornee style. Hipped red tiled roof with ridge cresting, red brick chimneystacks cast-iron rainwater goods and finials. Red brick walls with brick string courses. Segmental-headed window openings with timber casement windows, timber sash windows to rear. Timber and glazed door set in porch and accessed by tooled limestone steps. Timber battened door to rear. Set within its own grounds.
- Saint Joseph's Cemetery, graveyard/cemetery, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Cemetery, established c.1860, accessed by gates. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with painted capstones. Pair of tooled limestone gate piers capped with stone crosses on limestone plinth. Cast- and wrought-iron gates. Pedestrian gate to north. Flat, recumbent and standing grave markers. Central cross monument and a large number of high cross style grave markers.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1968 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Spollanstown, Tullamore8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Spollanstown · Baile Mhic Spolláin
- Area
- 1,460,898 m² (146.09 ha, 361 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Tullamore Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tullamore Urban electoral division: 11,957 people in 4,406 households; 55% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Spollanstown 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.