Lettybrook or Clooneen

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettybrook or Clooneen, from 51 m² to 350,942 m² (35.09 ha, 86.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Lettybrook or Clooneen 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.

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21691

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL ETU WITH PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE NAMELY LETTYBROOK HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21192

• 2 Nov 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL ETU WITH PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE NAMELY LETTYBROOK HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20535

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 Lettybrook or Clooneen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lettybrook or Clooneen.

Architectural heritage

• Lettybrook House, country house, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan three-bay two-storey over basement county house, built c.1740, with pedimented entrance bay and extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with stucco quoins and sandstone ogee cornice. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills and timber sash window. Round-headed stairlight to rear elevation. Round-headed window openings to ground floor front elevation, square-headed window openings to first floor front elevation and diminutive round-headed window opening to pediment all with sandstone label and hoodmouldings, altered and embellished c.1870. Square-headed door opening with Gibbsian surround, timber panelled door, surrounded by cornice and flanked by round-headed sidelights. Door accessed up nine steps and flanked by splayed plinth wall. Two-storey outbuildings and stables to south of house with pitched slate roofs and round-headed door openings with sandstone arches. Ranges of former outbuildings to south-east of house now in separate ownership and in use as a private dwelling. Walled garden to south of house. Gate lodge to entrance with hipped slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and decorative Gothic door flanked by sidelights, c.1810.

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 moderately low, 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 Lettybrook or Clooneen.

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

Name

Lettybrook or Clooneen · An Cluainín

Area

1,348,879 m² (134.89 ha, 333.32 acres)

Civil parish

Letterluna, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Knockbarron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockbarron electoral division: 223 people in 71 households; 91% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghraboy, Castletown and Glinsk, Currabeg, Drummin, Lackaroe, Moneyguyneen, Pigeonstown

Placenames

Lettybrook or Clooneen 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.