Trascan

140 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trascan, from 22 m² to 967,539 m² (96.75 ha, 239.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Trascan 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.

• 15 Jan 2026Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660017

• 23 Dec 2025N/a

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560687

• 20 Dec 2025N/a

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560670

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  a new slatted and cubicle bovine animal accommodation shed with slatted waste storage and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560440

• 11 Sept 2025N/a

  a new slatted and cubicle bovine animal accommodation shed with slatted waste storage and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560417

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  single and two storey extensions to existing dwelling to include 2 No. additional bedrooms, kitchen and living area and ancillary spaces including required demolition works to existing house and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560195

• 24 May 2025Refused

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area together with site entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560192

• 11 Feb 2025Conditional

  PERMISSION FOR SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560032

• 4 Jun 2024Conditional

  Extension to existing dwelling, construction of dormer windows to front elevation and conversion of attic space to bedrooms and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2460203

• 25 May 2024N/a

  Extension to existing dwelling, construction of dormer windows to front elevation and conversion of attic space to bedrooms and all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460184

• 29 Jan 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission for a change of house design from that granted permission under planning permission number 23/253, and all associated site works and services, at Trascan, Portarlington, Co. Offaly.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460022

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic shed, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360231

• 1 Jun 2023Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SITE ENTRANCE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23253

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  A BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA USING EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23222

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR FARM CONSISTING OF SOLAR PV PANELS MOUNTED ON STEEL SUPPORTED STRUCTURES WITH ASSOCIATED CABLING AND DUCTING; THE LAYING OF AN UNDERGROUND CABLE IN THE PUBLIC ROADWAY FOR THE PURPOSE OF GRID CONNECTION VIA AN OFF-SITE SUBSTATION; 18 NO. SINGLE STOREY INVERTER STATIONS; 2 NO. STEEL STORAGE CONTAINERS; PALISADE PERIMETER FENCING 2.45M IN HEIGHT; DOUBLE PALISADE SECURITY GATES; PERMEABLE GRAVEL ACCESS TRACK; 20 NO. ON-SITE POLE MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS C. 3M IN HEIGHT; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND/MATERIAL STORAGE AREA; AND 1 NO.TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION STAGE MOBY DICK TYPE WHEEL WASH SYSTEM (WITH OVERGROUND SETTLEMENT TANK); AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND WORKS, ALL TO BE PROVIDED WITHIN A TOTAL OVERALL APPLICATION BOUNDARY OF 39.23 HA. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS WITH AN OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF 40 YEARS. AN APPLICATION TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASSOCIATED TRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH CONSISTS OF A 110 KILOVOLT (KV) SUBSTATION AND GRID CONNECTION TO FACILITATE THE EXPORT OF POWER FROM THE SOLAR FARM WILL BE SUBMITTED TO AN BORD PLEANALA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT AND SUBMITTED AS PART OF THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22390

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  EXISTING DWELLING AS CONSTRUCTED, A SINGLE STOREY HOME STUDIO AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21311

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR FARM ON A TOTAL SITE AREA OF 86.7 HECTARES (HA), CONSISTING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED STEEL FRAMES WITH ASSOCIATED CABLING AND DUCTING; 40 NO. SINGLE STOREY INVERTER STATIONS; 4 NO. STEEL STORAGE CONTAINERS; PERIMETER FENCING; SECURITY GATES; PERMEABLE GRAVEL ACCESS TRACK; 36 NO. ONSITE POLE MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS C. 3M IN HEIGHT; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND/MATERIAL STORAGE AREA; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION STAGE MOBY DICK TYPE WHEELWASH SYSTEMS (WITH OVERHEAD SETTLEMENT TANK); AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND WORKS. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS WITH AN OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF 40 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) IS SUBMITTED WITH THE PLANNING APPLICATION. AN APPLICATION TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASSOCIATED TRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH CONSISTS OF A 110 KILOVOLT (KV) SUBSTATION AND GRID CONNECTION TO FACILITATE THE EXPORT OF POWER FROM THE SOLAR FARM WILL BE SUBMITTED TO AN BORD PLEANÁLA

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21123

• 11 Dec 2019N/a

  A SOLAR FARM ON A TOTAL SITE AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 86. 7 HECTARES (HA), CONSISTING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED STEEL FRAMES WITH ASSOCIATED CABLING AND DUCTING; 40 NO. SINGLE STOREY INVERTER STATIONS; 4 NO. STEEL STORAGE CONTAINERS; PERIMETER FENCING; SECURITY GATES; PERMEABLE GRAVEL ACCESS TRACK; 36 NO. ONSITE POLE MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS C. 3M IN HEIGHT; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND/MATERIAL STORAGE AREA; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION STAGE MOBY DICK TYPE WHEELWASH SYSTEMS (WITH OVERHEAD SETTLEMENT TANK); AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND WORKS. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS WITH AN OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF 40 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) IS SUBMITTED WITH THE PLANNING APPLICATION. AN APPLICATION TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH CONSISTS OF A 110 KILOVOLT (KV) SUBSTATION AND ASSOCIATED GRID CONNECTION TO FACILITATE THE EXPORT OF POWER FROM THE SOLAR FARM WILL BE SUBMITTED TO AN BORD PLEANALA

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19589

• 27 Nov 2019N/a

  SOLAR FARM ON A TOTAL SITE AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 86. 7 HECTARES (HA), CONSISTING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED STEEL FRAMES WITH ASSOCIATED CABLING AND DUCTING; 40 NO. SINGLE STOREY INVERTER STATIONS; 4 NO. STEEL STORAGE CONTAINERS; PERIMETER FENCING; SECURITY GATES; PERMEABLE GRAVEL ACCESS TRACK; 36 NO. ONSITE POLE MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS C. 3M IN HEIGHT; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND/MATERIAL STORAGE AREA; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION STAGE MOBY DICK TYPE WHEELWASH SYSTEMS (WITH OVERHEAD SETTLEMENT TANK); AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND WORKS. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS WITH AN OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF 40 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) IS SUBMITTED WITH THE PLANNING APPLICATION. AN APPLICATION TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH CONSISTS OF A 110 KILOVOLT (KV) SUBSTATION AND ASSOCIATED GRID CONNECTION TO FACILITATE THE EXPORT OF POWER FROM THE SOLAR FARM WILL BE SUBMITTED TO AN BORD PLEANALA

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19566

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING; GARAGE; ENTRANCE; SEPTIC TANK AND RAISED PERCOLATION AREA; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19453

• 4 Sept 2019N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A SOLAR FARM ON A TOTAL SITE AREA OF 88 HECTARES (HA), CONSISTING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED STEEL FRAMES WITH ASSOCIATED CABLING AND DUCTING; 40 NO. SINGLE STOREY INVERTER STATIONS; 4 NO. STEEL STORAGE CONTAINERS; PERIMETER FENCING; SECURITY GATES; PERMEABLE GRAVEL ACCESS TRACK; 36 NO. ONSITE POLE MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS C. 3M IN HEIGHT; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND/MATERIAL STORAGE AREA; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION STAGE MOBY DICK TYPE WHEELWASH SYSTEMS (WITH OVERHEAD SETTLEMENT TANK); AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND WORKS. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE PROPOSED SOLAR FARM FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS WITH AN OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF 40 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) IS SUBMITTED WITH THE PLANNING APPLICATION. AN APPLICATION TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 110 KILOVOLT (KV) SUBSTATION AND ASSOCIATED GRID CONNECTION TO FACILITATE THE EXPORT OF POWER FROM THE SOLAR FARM WILL BE SUBMITTED TO AN BORD PLEANALA.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19430

• 22 Feb 2019Conditional

  CONTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, A STANDALONE GRANNY FLAT, A NEW WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 1972

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  TWO DOMESTIC SHEDS TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 1932

• 14 Feb 2018Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1869

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS (INCL. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE/STORES) TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, A NEW WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 17514

The 25 most recent of 27 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• OF034-003 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential enclosure identified as a cropmark from aerial photographs (GSI N 412/3; Air Corps 645/46). 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

• OF034-004 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on low-lying poorly drained floodplains of nearby river. Low elongated mound of alluvial silt with no evidence of any enclosing bank or fosse. Not marked on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Hachured as an oval shaped mound or platform on the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map. This earthwork may have formed as the result of floodings over the years. Doubtful antiquity. 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/revision: 30 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Trascan House, farm house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1830, with entrance porch added c.1870 and modern extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered front and side elevations. Random coursed limestone wall to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and timber sash windows. Round-headed window to stairs on rear elevation. Entrance porch with balustrade parapet and decorative stained and etched glass windows. Segmental-headed door opening within porch with decorative stained glass fanlight and timber panelled door flanked by sidelights.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2222 (ZIP).

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

Name

Trascan · An Treascán

Area

6,017,089 m² (601.71 ha, 1,486.86 acres)

Civil parish

Clonyhurk, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Portarlington North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Portarlington North electoral division: 2,591 people in 873 households; 75% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bishopswood, Clondoolusk, Derrylea (Co. Kildare), Inchacooly (Co. Laois), Lea (Co. Laois)

Placenames

Trascan 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.