Tooreen

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreen, from 181 m² to 746,964 m² (74.7 ha, 184.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Tooreen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Tooreen.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-090 Road - class 2 togher
  Description

  The site (L 16.97m min.; Wth 0.68m; D 0.16m) is orientated ENE-WSW. At the E end it consists of three closely set longitudinal planks and two pegs. The planks (W 0.12-0.42m) are radially, tangentially and half-split. The pegs (diam. 0.04-0.05m) have been flattened to angles of 30° max. The wood is in poor condition and lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains and a layer of Eriophorum appears to have grown over the site. At the W end this structure continues as a roundwood and two split timbers. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF026-091 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A half-split timber exposed along its length in the drain face (L 1.1m; Wth 0.15m min.; D 0.08m). It appears to have been secured in place with two pegs. The pegs are adjacent, 0.15m above the timber, and are set at 80° and 45°. The wood is in poor condition consistent with having been exposed for some time prior to being enveloped by peat. In addition to splitting, the timber has a metal-cut chisel point on one end. This site lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with ericaceous remains. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2003. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF026-092 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A single worked roundwood (L 0.16m; diam. 0.1m) on the field surface identified during field walking which had been destroyed by the time of recording. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2003. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF026-093 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  The site (L 13.8m; Wth 0.88m min.; D 0.05m) is orientated NE-SW and is constructed of longitudinally laid mixed brushwood and a roundwood overlying a small twig bed. Four pegs (diam. 0.03-0.04m) are set in the centre of the site at angles of 60-85°. The wood is in very poor condition and woodworking is evidenced by a single chisel point. It lies in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Forge/smithy, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey former forge, built in 1869, with horseshoe entrance and projecting bay to south-facing side elevation. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and open eaves. Squared-limestone walls with limestone date plaque to front elevation. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with limestone sills and remains of cast-iron window. Tooled limestone horseshoe door opening to front elevation.

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 5 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 Tooreen.

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

Name

Tooreen · An Tuairín

Area

1,182,099 m² (118.21 ha, 292.1 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Rathfeston, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathfeston electoral division: 460 people in 150 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Ballintogher, Ballynakill, Coolagary, Kilbeg

Placenames

Tooreen 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.