Esker Beg

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker Beg, from 98 m² to 56,459 m² (5.65 ha, 13.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Esker Beg 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.

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  the development of a recreational shared cycle and walkway located on Bord Na Móna lands. The development proposes the following: a) The delivery of a shared cycle and walkway on Bord na Móna lands. This will include the repurposing of 18,958 meters of existing former rail bed and 827 meters along pre-existing machine access routes. b) The proposed shared cycle and walkway will connect into the existing Grand Canal Way within the townlands of Coole and Knockballyboy; the Public Amenity Facilities at Mountlucas Wind Farm within the townlands of Clonarrow or Riverlyons and Drumcaw or Mountlucas; and the Cloncreen Wind Farm Amenity Track within the townland of Clongarret. c) The construction of car and / or bicycle parking facilities at a number of gateway locations along the proposed route and the provision of EV Charging spaces at the Gateway locations. This will include; i. 3 Type 3 Gateways, ii. 2 Type 4 Gateways, iii. 7 Minor Rest Points d) Upgrade works to 2 no. local access road crossings, and 6 no. agricultural crossings. e) Upgrade works to the Croghan Tippler Bridge (BNM Ref 37-109) and the Ballycon Rail Bridge (BNM Ref 37-112). f) The construction of a new pedestrian and cycle bridge extending to 30.5 meters spanning the Grand Canal within the Coole townland, located adjacent to the existing Grand Canal lift bridge (BNM Ref 37-05). g) The erection of wayfinding and interpretative signage at Gateway locations along the route. h) The implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) nature-based drainage proposals at the Gateway locations to cater for surface water drainage at car park locations. i) Fencing and screening will be erected where required for biodiversity reasons which will include 7,636 meters of ecological screening. j) All other ancillary and associated site work. This Planning Application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560115

• 29 Jan 2025N/a

  the development of a recreational shared cycle and walkway located on Bord Na Móna lands. The development proposes the following: a) The delivery of a shared cycle and walkway on Bord na Móna lands. This will include the repurposing of 18,958 meters of existing former rail bed and 827 meters along pre-existing machine access routes. b) The proposed shared cycle and walkway will connect into the existing Grand Canal Way within the townlands of Coole and Knockballyboy; the Public Amenity Facilities at Mountlucas Wind Farm within the townlands of Clonarrow or Riverlyons and Drumcaw or Mountlucas; and the Cloncreen Wind Farm Amenity Track within the townland of Clongarret. c) The construction of car and / or bicycle parking facilities at a number of gateway locations along the proposed route and the provision of EV Charging spaces at the Gateway locations. This will include; i. 3 Type 3 Gateways, ii. 2 Type 4 Gateways, iii. 7 Minor Rest Points. d) Upgrade works to 2 no. local access road crossings, and 6 no. agricultural crossings. e) Upgrade works to the Croghan Tippler Bridge (BNM Ref 37-109) and the Ballycon Rail Bridge (BNM Ref 37-112). f) The construction of a new pedestrian and cycle bridge extending to 30.5 meters spanning the Grand Canal within the Coole townland, located adjacent to the existing Grand Canal lift bridge (BNM Ref 37-05). g) The erection of wayfinding and interpretative signage at Gateway locations along the route. h) The implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) nature-based drainage proposals at the Gateway locations to cater for surface water drainage at car park locations. i) Fencing and screening will be erected where required for biodiversity reasons which will include 7,636 meters of ecological screening. j) All other ancillary and associated site work. This Planning Application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560023

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  CROGHAN BIOMASS FACILITY , LOCATED WITHIN THE TOWNLANDS OF ESKER BEG AND DRUMCAW OR MOUNTLUCAS, CO. OFFALY AT GRID REFERENCE 651434, 727855 FOR THE STORAGE AND SEASONING OF BIOMASS LOGS FOLLOWED BY CHIPPING OF THE SEASONED LOGS ON A SITE AREA OF 5.6 HA AND FOR THE FOLLOWING WORKS: (1) EXISTING STRUCTURES COMPRISING (A) WEIGHBRIDGE (120 SQ.M) AND (B) WEIGHBRIDGE CONTROL STATION (40 SQ.M); (2) AN ENTRANCE OFF THE R402 WITH A WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES; (3) PAVED AREAS OF THE SITE INCLUDING INTERNAL ROADWAYS (380 M), YARD AREA (1.1 HA) AND HARDSTANDING AREA (1,865 SQ.M); (4) UNPAVED ACCESS TRACKS (1.4KM LONG); (5) A LINEAR LOG STORAGE AREA 1.8KM LONG, C.4M WIDE AND UP TO 4.1M HIGH, EQUATING TO 9,400 TONNES OF WET LOGS. PLANNING PERMSSION IS SOUGHT FOR STORAGE OF BIOMASS MATERIAL (10,000 TONNES PER ANNUM) WITHIN THE FACILITY SUBJECT TO RETENTION AND FOR ALTERATIONS TO IMPROVE THE EXISTING ACCESS OFF THE R402 TO INCLUDE ROAD MARKINGS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE ALL ANCILLARY WORKS.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20331

• 10 Jul 2020N/a

  THE STORAGE AND SEASONING OF BIOMASS LOGS FOLLOWED BY CHIPPING OF THE SEASONED LOGS ON A SITE AREA OF 5.6 HA. AND FOR THE FOLLOWING WORKS: (1) EXISTING STRUCTURES COMPRISING (A) WEIGHBRIDGE (120 SQ. M) AND (B) WEIGHBRIDGE CONTROL STATION (40 SQ. M); (2) AN ENTRANCE OFF THE R402 WITH A WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES; (3) PAVED AREAS OF THE SITE INCLUDING INTERNAL ROADWAYS (380 M), YARD AREA (1.1 HA) AND HARDSTANDING AREA (1 ,865 SQ.M); (4) UNPAVED ACCESS TRACKS (1.4 KM LONG); (5) A LINEAR LOG STORAGE AREA 1.8 KM LONG, C.4M WIDE AND UP TO 4.1M HIGH, EQUATING TO 9,400 TONNES OF WET LOGS. PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR STORAGE OF BIOMASS MATERIAL (10,000 TONNES PER ANNUM) WITHIN THE FACILITY SUBJECT TO RETENTION AND FOR ALTERATIONS TO IMPROVE THE EXISTING ACCESS OFF THE R402 TO INCLUDE ROAD MARKINGS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20288

• 20 Apr 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VECHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20141

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 Esker Beg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Esker Beg.

Architectural heritage

• Bord na Móna, gates/railings/walls, 1960–1965 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance walls and gates to the former Bord na Móna briquette factory, erected in 1961, comprising a pair of rendered triangular shaped piers with red brick and concrete blocks. Circular openings for light fittings in the centre of the triangular piers. Lights missing.

• Steward's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey steward's house, built c.1820, with extension to rear. Now a private dwelling. Set back from road. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and timber eaves brackets. Smooth render to plinth with roughcast render to walls. Replacement uPVC windows with tooled stone sills. Round-headed door opening with tooled block-and-start surround, petal fanlight and timber battened door. Split-level stone outbuilding with pitched slate roof and stone corrugated-iron outbuilding to east. Rendered wall with wrought-iron gate to front site.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2174 (ZIP).

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

Name

Esker Beg · An Eiscir Bheag

Area

401,618 m² (40.16 ha, 99.24 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Esker, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycon, Ballyhugh or Springfield, Clonarrow or Riverlyons, Drumcaw or Mountlucas, Killeen, Killoneen

Placenames

Esker Beg 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.