# Tara, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Teamhrach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,084,144 m² (208.41 ha, 515 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,367 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Durrow, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/durrow.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Silverbrook, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42274 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181109 - Centre: latitude 53.328108, longitude -7.554112 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tara, from 35 m² to 329,261 m² (32.93 ha, 81.36 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 291831: 329,261 m² (32.93 ha, 81.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291831.md - Parcel 278956: 182,129 m² (18.21 ha, 45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278956.md - Parcel 271249: 149,731 m² (14.97 ha, 37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271249.md - Parcel 291832: 117,567 m² (11.76 ha, 29.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291832.md - Parcel 282200: 106,463 m² (10.65 ha, 26.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282200.md - Parcel 308042: 105,791 m² (10.58 ha, 26.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308042.md - Parcel 305293: 105,756 m² (10.58 ha, 26.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305293.md - Parcel 301287: 94,709 m² (9.47 ha, 23.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301287.md - Parcel 282199: 68,694 m² (6.87 ha, 16.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282199.md - Parcel 303112: 65,856 m² (6.59 ha, 16.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303112.md - Parcel 309141: 55,939 m² (5.59 ha, 13.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309141.md - Parcel 308387: 52,552 m² (5.26 ha, 12.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308387.md - Parcel 4905016: 43,180 m² (4.32 ha, 10.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905016.md - Parcel 4222367: 41,805 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222367.md - Parcel 301671: 39,696 m² (3.97 ha, 9.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301671.md - Parcel 273340: 34,715 m² (3.47 ha, 8.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273340.md - Parcel 6075002: 33,235 m² (3.32 ha, 8.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6075002.md - Parcel 303861: 28,152 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303861.md - Parcel 2388194: 26,704 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388194.md - Parcel 291131: 25,983 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291131.md - Parcel 291011: 25,314 m² (2.53 ha, 6.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291011.md - Parcel 273371: 23,767 m² (2.38 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273371.md - Parcel 282201: 20,166 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282201.md - Parcel 293574: 19,143 m² (1.91 ha, 4.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293574.md - Parcel 291010: 18,955 m² (1.9 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291010.md - Parcel 280874: 11,779 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280874.md - Parcel 5842920: 10,923 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5842920.md - Parcel 4643290: 9,555 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4643290.md - Parcel 291009: 9,333 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291009.md - Parcel 291460: 8,945 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291460.md - Parcel 301498: 8,568 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301498.md - Parcel 271937: 8,223 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271937.md - Parcel 314447: 7,465 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314447.md - Parcel 282198: 6,466 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282198.md - Parcel 272465: 6,439 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272465.md - Parcel 299405: 6,169 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299405.md - Parcel 2458923: 6,127 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2458923.md - Parcel 270100: 5,947 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270100.md - Parcel 308601: 5,425 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308601.md - Parcel 269487: 3,750 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269487.md - Parcel 304932: 3,671 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304932.md - Parcel 282197: 3,502 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282197.md - Parcel 279241: 3,306 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279241.md - Parcel 4677726: 3,135 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4677726.md - Parcel 359466: 3,074 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359466.md - Parcel 2475516: 3,022 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475516.md - Parcel 2485067: 3,014 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2485067.md - Parcel 302146: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302146.md - Parcel 2389052: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389052.md - Parcel 310457: 35 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310457.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 23 Dec 2024, Offaly County Council 2460532: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460532/0 - 20 Dec 2024, Offaly County Council 2460527: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460527/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Offaly County Council 2460350: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460350/0 - 1 Jul 2024, Offaly County Council 2483: N/a. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2483/0 - 14 Jun 2024, Offaly County Council 2473: N/a. Retention. (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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2473/0 - 31 Aug 2021, Offaly County Council 21539: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21539/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tara. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF008-026: Burial mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF008-026----. 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 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 Tara. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1905.zip (ZIP). - 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/tara.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tara.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tara.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tara 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) - Ashfield: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ashfield.md - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cartron.md - Coniker: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coniker.md - Coolnahely: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolnahely.md - Kilclare: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilclare.md - Kilmucklin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmucklin.md - Kilnacarra: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilnacarra.md - Loughaun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/loughaun.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/tara - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/tara