Walshisland

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshisland, from 262 m² to 1,339,716 m² (133.97 ha, 331.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Walshisland 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.

• 2 Dec 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. PIG HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES (TO INCLUDE MEAL STORAGE BIN(S)) AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (TO INCLUDE UPGRADING THE EXISTING ENTRANCE) ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19574

• 24 Jul 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. PIG HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES (TO INCLUDE MEAL STORAGE BIN(S)) AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (TO INCLUDE UPGRADING THE EXISTING ENTRANCE) ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17270

• 3 Jul 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. PIG HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES (TO INCLUDE MEAL STORAGE BIN(S)) AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (TO INCLUDE UPGRADING THE EXISTING ENTRANCE) ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17238

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 Walshisland.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walshisland.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Walshisland.

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

At the centre of the townland of Walshisland, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Walshisland.

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.

No address of the register names Walshisland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Walshisland · Inis na mBreatnach

Area

2,831,760 m² (283.18 ha, 699.74 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Ballaghassaan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghassaan, Ballintemple, Bunnagappagh, Clonavoe, Clonshannon, Scrub or Pigeonpark

Placenames

Walshisland 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.