Claragh

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claragh, from 1,466 m² to 273,218 m² (27.32 ha, 67.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Claragh 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.

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2563

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONTINUED USE OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT UNDER P. REG. NO. 02/462 (PL 19.201727) CONSISTING OF THE EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING TO INCLUDE WASHING (WITH ASSOCIATED CLOSED SYSTEM SILT STORAGE LAGOONS) AND RELATED ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES INCLUDING THE READYMIX CONCRETE BATCHING PLANT, CONCRETE BLOCK BATCHING PLANT AND BLOCK YARD, ASPHALT PLANT, SITE OFFICE, PREFABRICATED SHIPPING OFFICE, WHEELWASH, WEIGHBRIDGE, ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION, SINGLE BUILDING COMPRISING WORKSHOP/LABORATORY/CANTEEN, TWO BUNDED AND COVERED FUEL TANKS, A CONCRETE RECLAIMER AND A SEPTIC TANK WITH PURAFLO LIQUID EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE N52 ROAD; EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF THE EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL PIT OVER AN AREA OF 31.3 HECTARES. THE SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION WILL BE DRY WORKING ABOVE THE WATER TABLE; PROVISION OF A NEW SAND WASHING AND SCREENING PROCESSING PLANT; PHASED STRIPPING AND STORAGE OF TOPSOIL AND OVERBURDEN MATERIALS OVER THE EXTENSION LANDS FOR REUSE IN THE RESTORATION WORKS. RESTORATION OF THE OVERALL SITE WILL BE TO A BENEFICIAL AGRICULTURAL AFTER-USE; ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN AN OVERALL APPLICATION AREA OF 68.9 HECTARES, AND ALL FOR A PERIOD OF 18 YEARS PLUS 2 YEARS TO COMPLETE RESTORATION WORKS (TOTAL DURATION OF 20 YEARS). AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) HAS BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THIS PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19478

• 8 Nov 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF PLAN FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PERMISSION UNDER FILE REF. 18/23 FOR DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING RE-POSITION OF HOUSE AND GARAGE ON SITE, REVISIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION AND MINOR INTERNAL CHANGES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18496

• 19 Feb 2018Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1874

• 22 Jan 2018Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1823

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 Claragh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Claragh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Claragh, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1908 (ZIP).

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

Name

Claragh · Clóirtheach

Area

415,565 m² (41.56 ha, 102.69 acres)

Civil parish

Lynally, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Screggan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,513 people lived in 479 households in the Screggan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunaterin, Cloghabrack, Cloghanbane, Fertaun, Glaskill, Heath, Screggan

Placenames

Claragh 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.