Togher
Togher is a townland in the civil parish of Lemanaghan, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is An Tóchar.
- Area
- 57.2 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 3,209 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Togher, from 117 m² to 186,358 m² (18.64 ha, 46.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Togher 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Aug 2023Conditional
To demolish 1.no existing cottage and 2 no. existing sheds and to construct a single dwelling house, domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360064
14 Jul 2023N/a
To demolish 1.no existing cottage and 2 no. existing sheds and to construct a single dwelling house, domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360024
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Togher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Togher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Togher.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Togher, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Togher.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Togher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Togher · An Tóchar
- Area
- 571,813 m² (57.18 ha, 141.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lemanaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Doon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 543 people lived in 180 households in the Doon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlereagh, Cooldorragh, Corracullin, Esker, Lackagh More
- Placenames
- Togher 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.