Urney

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urney, from 1,101 m² to 575,892 m² (57.59 ha, 142.31 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 Urney 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.

• 16 Aug 2023Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling and detached garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site and wastewater treatment system and coco filter together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360068

• 25 Nov 2020Refused

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20586

• 11 May 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18207

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 Urney.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-026 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as some type of enclosure on first edition of the OS 6-inch map but was probably a landscape feature such as an ornamental pond. No longer visible above ground. May have been an enclosure of archaeological importance that was converted into an ornamental pond. 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

• OF026-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Large embanked enclosure shows on aerial photo (CUCAP BDU 8) with possible smaller circular area delimited by a fosse almost at the centre of the site. Possible entrance at the N. Not visible at ground level. 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

• OF026-028001 Church
  Description

  Very fragmentary remains of a now featureless church in a much neglected walled graveyard. Only part of S face of N wall (max L c. 8m, max. H 2.50m) and small portion of base of W wall. Built with roughly course rubble limestone. Three rectangular shaped opes in N wall appear to be later insertions. (Comerford 1883, 195). Very fragmentary remains of a church within a much neglected graveyard (OF026-028002-). Only part of the N wall (max. L c. 8m; max. H 2.5m) with its N face missing and a very small portion of the base of the W wall can be seen above ground level. Church is built with rubble limestone roughly coursed and the N wall has a line of three rectangular shaped opes (c. 0.3m by 0.4m) set at the same height. These appear to be later insertions. According to Comerford (1883, 195) small portion of E gable erected in the 19th-century. No other features visible. Square shaped graveyard with 18th/19th-century headstones enclosed by a stone wall. 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

• OF026-028002 Graveyard
  Description

  Very fragmentary remains of a church (OF026-028001-) within a much neglected graveyard. Square shaped graveyard with 18th/19th-century headstones enclosed by a stone wall. 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

• OF026-028003 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains visible of any enclosure around the church (OF026-028001-) and graveyard (OF026-028002-). Possible outline of a levelled enclosure around the church and graveyard shows up on aerial photographs (CUCAP BDU 8-12). 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

• OF026-096 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 09 September 2019

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built in 1935, with seven-bay nave, entrance porch and apse flanked by sacristy and storeroom. Built by P.J. Foyle, Architect. Pitched slate roof with cross finials and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods supported in limestone corbels. Rendered walls. Pointed-arched window openings to nave with rendered surrounds and stained glass window. Shoulder-arched window openings to sacristy. Window to front elevation comprises three lancet windows and two quatrefoils beneath a hoodmoulding with granite surrounds flanked by lancet windows with granite surrounds. Pointed-arched door opening to entrance porch with chamfered granite surround and hoodmoulding and timber double doors with wrought-iron door furniture. Pointed-arched door opening to sacristy and storeroom with rendered surrounds and timber double doors. Graveyard located to east of church. Plaque on church records the dedication ceremony to 17th March 1935.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1800, with lobby-entry plan. Pitched (south end) and Hipped (north end) oaten straw roof with plastic conduit to ridge and twine to eaves. Low rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed stone walls. Replacement timber windows and timber panelled door. Building may have been extended southwards as that part is recessed slightly. At roadside with slight forecourt.

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 Urney.

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

Name

Urney · An Urnaí

Area

1,969,520 m² (196.95 ha, 486.68 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykean, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

O'Dempsey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

O'Dempsey electoral division: 161 people in 52 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Ballychristal, Ballykean, Clonygowan, Kilcooney, Raheen, Sranure

Placenames

Urney 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.