# Thornwell, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacwilliam, barony of Warrenstown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Tobar na Sceiche. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,227,997 m² (122.8 ha, 303.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,047 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacwilliam, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballymacwilliam.md - Barony: Warrenstown - Electoral division: Ballymacwilliam, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 652 people lived in 214 households in the Ballymacwilliam electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41618 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181114 - Centre: latitude 53.347628, longitude -7.106785 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thornwell, from 1,307 m² to 528,144 m² (52.81 ha, 130.51 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 269959: 528,144 m² (52.81 ha, 130.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269959.md - Parcel 269504: 324,248 m² (32.42 ha, 80.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269504.md - Parcel 275227: 188,139 m² (18.81 ha, 46.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275227.md - Parcel 284011: 48,773 m² (4.88 ha, 12.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284011.md - Parcel 302674: 24,307 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302674.md - Parcel 286067: 15,341 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286067.md - Parcel 300323: 10,283 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300323.md - Parcel 308272: 6,134 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308272.md - Parcel 311376: 5,283 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311376.md - Parcel 300932: 5,097 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300932.md - Parcel 270766: 5,003 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270766.md - Parcel 312016: 4,985 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312016.md - Parcel 314372: 4,516 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314372.md - Parcel 310865: 4,139 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310865.md - Parcel 299323: 4,054 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299323.md - Parcel 271053: 4,040 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271053.md - Parcel 306558: 4,024 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306558.md - Parcel 293438: 3,968 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293438.md - Parcel 303938: 3,961 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303938.md - Parcel 294670: 3,955 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294670.md - Parcel 305436: 3,901 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305436.md - Parcel 296249: 3,738 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296249.md - Parcel 282689: 3,610 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282689.md - Parcel 281436: 3,546 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281436.md - Parcel 277239: 3,208 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277239.md - Parcel 307413: 2,508 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307413.md - Parcel 310346: 2,420 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310346.md - Parcel 291386: 2,322 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291386.md - Parcel 305896: 2,266 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305896.md - Parcel 298800: 1,307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298800.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Thornwell 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) No planning application touches the townland of Thornwell in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Thornwell. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thornwell. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Thornwell. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Thornwell, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2240, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2240.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/thornwell.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/thornwell.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/thornwell.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Thornwell 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) - Ballymacwilliam: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymacwilliam.md - Jonestown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/jonestown.md - Monasteroris: https://everytownland.com/offaly/monasteroris.md - Mountwilson: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mountwilson.md - Rogerstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rogerstown.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/thomastown.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/thornwell - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/thornwell