# Vicarstown, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Wheery or Killagally, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Bhiocáire. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 572,450 m² (57.25 ha, 141.46 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,193 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Wheery or Killagally, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/wheery-or-killagally.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Ferbane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ferbane electoral division: 1,281 people in 484 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41339 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181149 - Centre: latitude 53.264638, longitude -7.794457 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Vicarstown, from 997 m² to 53,576 m² (5.36 ha, 13.24 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5118143: 53,576 m² (5.36 ha, 13.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5118143.md - Parcel 298272: 42,439 m² (4.24 ha, 10.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298272.md - Parcel 309740: 39,370 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309740.md - Parcel 278624: 38,850 m² (3.88 ha, 9.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278624.md - Parcel 5118145: 37,970 m² (3.8 ha, 9.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5118145.md - Parcel 295381: 36,811 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295381.md - Parcel 269696: 33,075 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269696.md - Parcel 279193: 32,988 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279193.md - Parcel 5118144: 29,557 m² (2.96 ha, 7.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5118144.md - Parcel 270130: 27,275 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270130.md - Parcel 301520: 27,061 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301520.md - Parcel 310156: 24,065 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310156.md - Parcel 5118142: 23,193 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5118142.md - Parcel 270037: 23,042 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270037.md - Parcel 291937: 21,761 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291937.md - Parcel 292043: 18,615 m² (1.86 ha, 4.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292043.md - Parcel 291803: 16,505 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291803.md - Parcel 296059: 15,540 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296059.md - Parcel 300075: 11,269 m² (1.13 ha, 2.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300075.md - Parcel 270216: 7,446 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270216.md - Parcel 297086: 5,382 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297086.md - Parcel 6055295: 3,697 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6055295.md - Parcel 282502: 2,122 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282502.md - Parcel 308673: 1,158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/308673.md - Parcel 272197: 997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/272197.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Vicarstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 13 Sept 2023, Offaly County Council 2360113: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a three bedroom 2 story dwelling and garage. The application will also include a new biofilter treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works and drainage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360113/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Vicarstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF015-013: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF015-013----. Located on flat poorly drained land. Circular area (36m E-W) enclosed by low flat bank (Wth 7m) at W, reduced to a scarp elsewhere, wide external fosse (Wth 7m; int. D 1.7m) with no entrance feature visible. There are beech trees all along the perimeter of the enclosure indicating the possibility that this is a tree ring. The interior of the site appears to have been hollowed out. Possibly a ringfort modified into a tree ring. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Vicarstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Vicarstown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/vicarstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/vicarstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/vicarstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Vicarstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghaboy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghaboy.md - Brehoge: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brehoge.md - Coole: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coole-180479.md - Curraghwheery: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curraghwheery.md - Derries: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180568.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glebe-180708.md - Kincora: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kincora.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/vicarstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/vicarstown