# Wheery, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Wheery or Killagally, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Foíre.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 165,609 m² (16.56 ha, 40.92 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,728 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications 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/41340
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181152
- Centre: latitude 53.259641, longitude -7.814197 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wheery, from 153 m² to 85,788 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 299881: 85,788 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299881.md
- Parcel 294424: 26,999 m² (2.7 ha, 6.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294424.md
- Parcel 277401: 24,528 m² (2.45 ha, 6.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277401.md
- Parcel 296061: 19,728 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296061.md
- Parcel 6231172: 8,630 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6231172.md
- Parcel 6231177: 712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6231177.md
- Parcel 6231174: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6231174.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Wheery 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)

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

## 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 Wheery.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF014-032: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF014-032----. Natural rise of ground , of doubtful antiquity. Potential enclosure identified from aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 520/19). 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
- OF014-040001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF014-040001-. Situated on the low-lying flood plains of the river Brosna. Ruins of a simple rectangular church (ext. dims. 8.5m N-S; 24m E-W; wall T 1m) built with irregularly coursed limestone blocks giving the masonry a cyclopean appearance often found on early medieval churches. The walls are in places covered in overgrowth and survive to a max. height of 0.5m on all sides. No architectural features evident with no evidence of a door. A bronze bell and its shrine were found in the nearby river in 1849 and were locally associated with the church (JRSAI 1868-9 Vol. 19, 347-8). Situated in the centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (OF014-004002-). 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
- OF014-040002: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF014-040002-. Situated on the low-lying flood plains of the river Brosna. Ruins of a simple rectangular church (OF014-040001-) built with irregularly coursed limestone blocks giving the masonry a cyclopean appearance often found on early medieval churches. A bronze bell and its shrine were found in the nearby river in 1849 and were locally associated with the church (JRSAI 1868-9 Vol. 19, 347-8). A large semi-circular enclosure (approx. int. diam. 190m N-S ; 310m E-W) runs off the River Brosna which acts as an enclosing element on its S side with church located in centre of enclosure. During the winter months this enclosure floods acting as a waterfilled moat around the church. It appears to have originally consisted of an inner bank now mainly levelled and a wide flat bottomed fosse. This was the site of 'the ancient monastery of Kilwheery' (Anon 1868-9, 347). 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
- OF015-016: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF015-016----. Large roughly oval-shaped platform (approx. diam. 40m N-S ; 90m E-W ) situated on wet marshy land 165m to the E of wheery church (OF014-004001-) and its ecclesiastical enclosure (OF014-004002-). Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but is indicated on the revised 1908 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This irregularly shaped platform is located on wet poorly drained land which and may be the result of drainage works dating from the 19th century. 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: 28 December 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 Wheery.

## 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Wheery.
- 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/wheery.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/wheery.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/wheery.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Wheery 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)

- Coole: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coole-180479.md
- Falsk: https://everytownland.com/offaly/falsk.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.

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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/wheery
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/wheery