Wood

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wood, from 1,719 m² to 156,887 m² (15.69 ha, 38.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Wood 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.

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  Amendments to the development permitted under Offaly County Council Planning Register Reference 20/494 to: (i) revise the layout of the permitted development including solar array and inverter/transformer units; (ii) increase the height of the permitted solar array from 2.914 metres to up to 3.3 metres; (iii) provide for variable spacings between the solar array rows; (iv) provide for varying solar array tilt-angles; (v) alter the design of the electrical inverter/transformer units and reduce the number of electrical inverter/transformer units from 27 no. to 14 no.; (vi) revise the alignment of approximately 250 metres of existing on-site access tracks and construct approximately 7,500 metres of access track; (vii) relocate and redesign the permitted battery energy storage system compound including an increase in the compound footprint from approximately 3,850 square metres to approximately 10,100 square metres; (viii) alter the design of the battery energy storage system and increase the number of battery energy storage system and ancillary containers from 38 no. to 83 no.; (ix) alter Condition No. 6(b) to provide for the planting of screening vegetation at the end of the construction phase; (x) alter Condition No. 5(a) to provide for the decommissioning of the development no later than 40-years from the date of commissioning; and, (xi) all associated site development, drainage, access and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560082

• 13 Oct 2020Conditional

  A 10-YEAR PERMISSION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF: 1. A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT ON A C.132 HA SITE CONSISTING OF SOLAR PANELS ON GROUND-MOUNTED FRAMES, 27 NO. SINGLE STOREY ELECTRICAL INVERTER/ TRANSFORMER UNITS, SECURITY FENCING, CCTV SYSTEM WITH POLE MOUNTED CAMERAS, UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS; 2. AN ENCLOSED BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM COMPOUND ON A C.0.385 HA LOCATED WITHIN THE SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT SITE CONSISTING OF 18 NO. BATTERY STORAGE UNITS (EACH WITH ASSOCIATED CONTAINERISED STEP UP TRANSFORMER), 1 NO. CONTAINERISED CONTROL ROOM AND 1 NO. CONTAINERISED SWITCH ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS; AND 3. A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING ACCESS. THE OPERATIONAL LIFESPAN OF THE SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WILL BE 35 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20494

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 Wood.

Recorded monuments

• OF004-009 Moated site
  Description

  Large trapezoidal shaped enclosure (c. 65m NE-SW x c. 110m SE-NW) defined by a scarp with slight traces of a bank in places and a wide shallow fosse of the N. Evidence of a gap and causeway at SE. Situated in low lying area on slight rise. System of banks and fosses to S and E of enclosure. Aerial photo (GSI N489/90/91). Situated on flat low lying flood plains of the Yellow River about 300m to the S. Large raised sub-rectangular or lozenge shaped area (109m N-S; 93m E-W) defined by a low bank reduced in most places to a scarp and broad shallow fosse (Wth 5m; ext. D 0.5m) with external bank (int. H 1.5m). The interior of the site is flat with no evidence of any internal structures. Associated with the large enclosure are a number of other earthworks to the S, of these the clearest is a rectangular enclosure (10m x 25m) with a low bank (H 0.3m) orientated NE/SW. Possible medieval moated site (ASI file 1980). This site is situated on flat low lying flood plain of the Yellow River about 300m south of its present course and about 500m north of Ballyburley hill. The site consists of a complex of earthworks based in two fields. The lower earthworks is a sub-rectangular or lozenge shape feature defined by a low fosse and bank rising to a central platform, the external dimensions of the site are 146m between the Southern and Northern corner, 110m between the Eastern and Western corners, the South West to North East diagonal is 86m and the South East to North West diagonal is 110m. The max. internal diameter N-S measures 109m and the E-W diameter measures 93m. This site is almost totally surrounded by a low fosse measuring  on average 0.5m and 5m across. On the South East the fosse widens to nearly 8m but there is evidence of disturbance in this area which may account for the extra width. The exterior of the bank runs between 1m and 2.0m above the fosse. The internal bank is lower and only partially surrounds the site. It is only evident on the Northern, Southern and Eastern corners. On average the internal bank only rises by 0.30m, however on both the Southern corners the bank rises steeply giving an internal bank height of 0.90m to the north and 0.5m to the Southern corner. The form of the bank at the Northern corner is high enough to form a low mound. The interior of the site is flat with no evidence of disturbance. Associated with the large earthwork are a number of other earthworks to the south, of these the clearest is a rectangular feature with a low surrounding bank 0.3m high, it is orientated NE/SW and measures 10m by 25m. A number of these appear modern and may be the remains of clay extraction from the site. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Wood.

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

Name

Wood · An Choill

Area

1,215,730 m² (121.57 ha, 300.41 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyburly, and its townlands

Barony

Warrenstown

Electoral division

Ballyburly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyburly electoral division: 1,388 people in 478 households; 82% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbetstown, Garr, Greenhills, Killowen, Srah, Tooreen

Placenames

Wood 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.