Stonehouse
Townland in the civil parish of Castlejordan, barony of Warrenstown, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Teach Cloiche
- Area
- 110.3 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 75,706 m² (7.57 ha, 18.71 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stonehouse, from 1,765 m² to 295,676 m² (29.57 ha, 73.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 9 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
23 Jun 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20233
27 May 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20195
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 Stonehouse.
Recorded monuments
- OF004-003 Enclosure
Description
Oval shaped enclosure (max dims. E-W c. 68m (N-S c. 39m) defined by a prominent scarp N/W to SE. S side levelled or quarried away, may have been circular in shape originally. 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 Stonehouse.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Stonehouse.
- 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
No address of the register names Stonehouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Stonehouse · An Teach Cloiche
- Area
- 1,102,517 m² (110.25 ha, 272.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlejordan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Warrenstown
- Electoral division
- Clonmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonmore electoral division: 508 people in 168 households; 94% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfore (Co. Meath), Corbetstown, Kildangan (Co. Meath), Killowen, Lewellensland (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Stonehouse 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.