Thomastown Demesne

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thomastown Demesne, from 16 m² to 328,558 m² (32.86 ha, 81.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Thomastown Demesne 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house, new septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560578

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  the amendment to the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) omitting 4 previously approved No. Lean-to Type Houses (Previous Ref: E 1-4), and replacing with 3 No. Portal Frame type houses (Ref: E1-3), and, b) providing for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm, resulting in an increase in breeding stock and a reduction in production pigs, at Roundhill and Derry Upper, Kilcormac, Co. Offaly. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560468

• 1 Oct 2025N/a

  The development will consist of : planning permission to amend the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) omitting 4 previously approved No. Lean-to Type Houses (Previous Ref: E 1-4), and replacing with 3 No. Portal Frame type houses (Ref: E1-3), and, b) providing for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm, resulting in an increase in breeding stock and a reduction in production pigs,

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560459

• 15 Sept 2025N/a

  the amendment to the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) replacing houses Ref: E 1-4, with houses Ref: E1-3, and, b) provide for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560422

• 14 Jul 2025N/a

  an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm from that as approved by Offaly Co. Co. under Planning Ref: 23/60196 (approved 06/12/2024).

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560305

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new single-storey fitness building and all associated site works to complete the development

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560045

• 1 Jul 2022N/a

  A 10 YEAR PERMISSION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT ON TWO SEPARATE AND DETACHED PARCELS OF LAND, PARCEL 1 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLONBEALE BEG GLEBE, RATHURE NORTH, WHILE PARCEL 2 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF PARKMORE. BOTH SEPARATE PARCELS WILL BE CONNECTED TO AN EXISTING PERMITTED SOLAR DEVELOPMENT UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF: PR20/476 BY UNDERGROUND CABLES (WILL BE SUBJECT TO A SEPARATE STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CONSENT APPLICATION). EACH DETACHED PARCEL CONTAINING PV PANELS WILL BE LAID OUT IN ARRAYS OVER A TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA OF CA. 69HA, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 24 NO. POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 12 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22335

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20448

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19592

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  (A) EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING THAT INCLUDES A STAFF ROOM, NEW OFFICE, RESOURCE ROOM AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ADJOINING ROOMS AND (B) PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY CLASSROOM EXTENSION TO THE NORTH OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING ALTERATIONS AND FUTURE UPGRADING OF EXISTING FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1918

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17501

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 Thomastown Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• OF031-033 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface trace visible in area of dense forest plantations. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 166/7; 196/7) shows cropmark of possible circular enclosure. 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

• Thomastown Park, walled garden, outbuilding, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, outbuilding, deer park and former entrance gates and lodge to former Thomastown Park, built c.1750. Main entrance gates with square-profile, ashlar limestone gate piers with frieze and capping stones with wrought-iron gates flanked by pedestrian entrances with tooled limestone surrounds flanked by quadrant walls. Single-storey gate lodge to east. Large walled deer park to north of former demesne with random coursed stone walls. Walled garden to west of former house site with random coursed stone walls and red brick internal wall to north. Outbuilding to farmyard complex with roughcast rendered walls, corrugated roof and ashlar limestone bellcote to south-east elevation. Segmental and square-headed carriage arch openings with corrugated doors.

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 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 Thomastown Demesne.

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 Thomastown Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Thomastown Demesne · Baile Thomáis

Area

2,910,637 m² (291.06 ha, 719.23 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Drumcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcullen electoral division: 454 people in 152 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coagh Lower, Colmanstown, Derry Lower, Derry Upper, Moneenderg, Mullanafawnia, Raheenglass, Rathmount, Roundhill, Russellspenn, Tinnacross

Placenames

Thomastown Demesne 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.