Tonlemone
Tonlemone is a townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Tóin le Móin.
- Area
- 205 ha
- 507 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 8,101 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonlemone, from 180 m² to 292,552 m² (29.26 ha, 72.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Tonlemone 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
12 Mar 2026Conditional
the demolition of the existing garage structure to the side, the removal of the dwelling's rear flat roof structure, the removal of 1no. of the 2no. chimney structures, the construction of a single-storey pitched roof extension to the side that extends forward of the existing front building plane and is complete with 1no. rooflight to the front roof slope, the construction of a bay window extension to the front, the construction of a new rear extension with a pitched & flat roof structure c/w rooflights, the installation of photovoltaic solar panels to the southern & western roof slopes and an external insulation wrap to all existing external walls, the construction of a single-storey domestic garage structure, the construction of a new site entrance off of the public road L-70096-1 and other alterations to the existing single-storey detached dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660119
1 Mar 2026N/a
the removal of the existing garage structure to the side, the removal of the dwellings rear flat roof structure, the removal of 1no. of the 2no. chimney structures, the construction of a single-storey pitched roof extension to the side that extends forward of the existing front building plane and is complete with 1no. rooflight to the front roof slope, the construction of a bay window extension to the front, the construction of a new rear extension with a pitched & flat roof structure c/w rooflights, the installation of photovoltaic solar panels to the southern & western roof slopes and an external insulation wrap to all existing external walls, the construction of a single-storey domestic garage structure and other alterations to the existing single-storey detached dwelling
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660100
30 Jan 2026Conditional
BUILDING NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 269
5 Oct 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, to include a treatment system and raised bed percolation area, proposed connection to mains water supply, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560466
26 Jul 2021Conditional
(A) ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21458
11 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK/SHEEP SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20364
28 Aug 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUSIVE OF CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18370
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 Tonlemone.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonlemone.
Architectural heritage
- Gaybrook, store/warehouse, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay two-storey grain store, built c.1820, as part of the mill complex. Now a domestic outbuilding. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with replacement rainwater goods. Random coursed sandstone and limestone walls. Moulded brick surrounds to windows with stone sills and one surviving timber sash window. Slit windows to first floor. Square- and round-headed door openings with brick surrounds and timber battened doors. Segmental-headed carriage arch with brick surround. Kiln to east with pitched corrugated-iron roof and random coursed limestone walls. Now altered. Double-arched road bridge to north-east with random coursed walls and cut stone voussoirs to arches. Part of sluice set in wall to east. Wrought-iron gate to rear of store.
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
- 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 low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tonlemone.
- 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 Tonlemone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Tonlemone · Tóin le Móin
- Area
- 2,049,973 m² (205 ha, 506.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gallen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Cloghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attinkee, Cloghan, Galros, Guernal, Kilcamin, Magherabane, Stonestown
- Placenames
- Tonlemone 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.