Tara

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tara, from 35 m² to 329,261 m² (32.93 ha, 81.36 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 Tara 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.

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY, SPLIT LEVEL HOUSE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460532

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY, SPLIT LEVEL HOUSE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460527

• 11 Sept 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY, SPLIT LEVEL HOUSE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460350

• 1 Jul 2024N/a

  (A) EXISTING OUTBUILDING AS CONSTRUCTED (B) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING CONSTRUCTION OF FOUNDATION AND RISING BLOCK WALLS TO DPC LEVEL AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO EXTEND THE EXISTING FOOTPRINT FOUNDATIONS TO CONSTRUCT AND FINISH NEW DWELLING HOUSE THEREON, INCLUSIVE OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2483

• 14 Jun 2024N/a

  (A) EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS AS CONSTRUCTED. (B) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING CONSTRUCTION OF FOUNDATIONS AND RISING BLOCK WALLS TO DPC LEVEL AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO EXTEND THE EXSISTING FOOTPRINT FOUNDATIONS TO CONSTRUCT AND FINISH NEW DWELLING HOUSE THEREON,I NCLUSIVE OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2473

• 31 Aug 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21539

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 Tara.

Recorded monuments

• OF008-026 Burial mound
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in undulating countryside with limited views. Low flat topped mound (8m N-S; 7m E-W; H 1.5m) with a circular depression (Wth 3m; D 0.5m) on top with slight evidence of a fosse enclosing the base of the mound which was impossible to examine due to overgrowth. The central depression on top appears to be the result of an uprooted tree rather than quarrying because there is no evidence of stone in the composition of the mound. 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 Tara.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1905 (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.

No address of the register names Tara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Tara · Teamhrach

Area

2,084,144 m² (208.41 ha, 515 acres)

Civil parish

Durrow, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Silverbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Silverbrook electoral division: 822 people in 266 households; 87% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfield, Cartron, Coniker, Coolnahely, Kilclare, Kilmucklin, Kilnacarra, Loughaun

Placenames

Tara 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.