Toberleheen

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberleheen, from 105 m² to 259,896 m² (25.99 ha, 64.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Toberleheen 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.

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling with an attached domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560436

• 12 Sept 2025N/a

  the construction of a dwelling with an attached domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560419

• 25 Aug 2025N/a

  the construction of a dwelling with an attached domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560387

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  a proposed single storey dwelling house, garage, site entrance, secondary treatment system, soil polishing filter & percolation area and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460238

• 18 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of a one-storey dwelling (172.3 sq m) and domestic garage (44.8 sq m). Permission is also sought for the installation of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, and permission for a new domestic entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360238

• 7 Sept 2023N/a

  for the construction of a one-storey dwelling (172.3 sq m) and domestic garage (44.8 sq m). Permission is also sought for the installation of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, and permission for a new domestic entrance and all associated site works at the above address.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360103

• 25 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE/ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1924

• 15 Sept 2017Conditional

  EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS REQUIRED FOR OWN OCCUPATION AND PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17351

• 7 Sept 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND RETENTION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS REQUIRED FOR OWN OCCUPATION.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 17334

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 Toberleheen.

Recorded monuments

• OF018-014 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Four holy wells situated at side of stream now all filled in and mostly dried-up. Some water flowing out of St. John's well. All four holy wells are now destroyed with only a hawthorn bush marking the location of each individual well located beside a stream. One of a group of 4 holy wells (OF018-014/004-) marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Scurvy Well', 'Children's Well', 'St. John's Well' and 'Lady's Well'. 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

• OF018-014002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  All four holy wells are now destroyed with only a hawthorn bush marking the location of each individual well located beside a stream. One of a group of 4 holy wells. One of a group of 4 holy wells (OF018-014/004-) marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Scurvy Well', 'Children's Well', 'St. John's Well' and 'Lady's Well'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF018-014003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  All four holy wells are now destroyed with only a hawthorn bush marking the location of each individual well located beside a stream. One of a group of 4 holy wells. One of a group of 4 holy wells (OF018-014/004-) marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Scurvy Well', 'Children's Well', 'St. John's Well' and 'Lady's Well'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF018-014004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  All four holy wells are now destroyed with only a hawthorn bush marking the location of each individual well located beside a stream. One of a group of 4 holy wells. One of a group of 4 holy wells (OF018-014/004-) marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Scurvy Well', 'Children's Well', 'St. John's Well' and 'Lady's Well'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF018-199 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 65m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark may be the remains of a watercourse rather than that of an a archaeological monument. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 26/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 07 May 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toberleheen.

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 Toberleheen.

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

Name

Toberleheen · Tobar Lithín

Area

1,416,957 m² (141.7 ha, 350.14 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagharvey, Ballinagar, Ballycrumlin, Ballymooney, Cappanageeragh, Cappyroe, Clonmore

Placenames

Toberleheen 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.