Clonearl Demesne

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonearl Demesne, from 122 m² to 248,924 m² (24.89 ha, 61.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Clonearl Demesne 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.

• 23 May 2025Conditional

  (1) SEPTIC TANK AND (2) RETENTION AND UPGRADE TO PERCOLATION AREA AT EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2552

• 19 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) AMENDMENT TO SITE BOUNDARY AND (2) UPGRADE EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA AT EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2529

• 11 Mar 2025N/a

  (1) AMENDMENT TO SITE BOUNDARY AND (2) UPGRADE EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA AT EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2523

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  1) offices incorporating conversion of attic rooms to offices and 1st floor offices to rear, 2) extension to manufacturing unit, 3) extension to storage facility, 4) extension to concrete store, 5) building including storage units, 6) canteen and toilets, 7) toilet block adjacent to concrete store, 8) machine store, 9) container storage units, 10) steel storage shed, 11) extension to site curtilage, 12) extension to car-park and 13) culverted stream as indicated on site layout map, all associated site works and permission to construct screening berm, planting on the north boundary and additional surface water drainage

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460285

• 21 Jul 2023Refused

  1) offices incorporating conversion of attic rooms to offices and 1st floor offices to rear, 2) extension to manufacturing unit, 3) extension to storage facility, 4) extension to concrete store, 5) building including storage units, 6) canteen and toilets, 7) toilet block adjacent to concrete store, 8) machine store, 9) container storage units, 10) steel storage shed, 11) extension to site curtilage, 12) extension to car-park and permission to construct screening berm and planting on the north boundary

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2360031

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  HOME OFFICE / OUTBUILDING AND DETACHED GARAGE, PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT WILL CONSIST OF EXTENSION TO HOUSE FORMING GRANNY FLAT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22364

• 13 Apr 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22184

• 8 Mar 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ATL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22105

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND FARM ACCESS ROAD

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20446

• 10 Sept 2020N/a

  A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND FARM ACCESS ROAD

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20424

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  (A) 1 NO. NEW STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20255

• 30 Jul 2019Conditional

  DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED/GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND FOR RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DWELLING INTERNAL GARAGE CONVERSION TO BEDROOM AND ENSUITE AND ASSOCIATED ELEVATION ALTERATIONS AS CONSTRUCTED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19384

• 14 Aug 2017Conditional

  TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17299

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 Clonearl Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• OF010-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Enclosure shows on aerial photo (N 548/547) but land now reclaimed. No surface evidence visible. 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

• OF010-026001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Castle built c. 1550 and occupied by the Leicester family (R. Loeber pers. comms.). Remains now consist of low banks and shallow fosses with no masonry showing. 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

• OF010-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photo (N 548/547) shows possible remains of an enclosure. Land now reclaimed and no surface remains are visible. 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

• OF010-487 Burial
  Description

  The partial remains of a human body were recovered from a boundary drain in 2003. They consisted on the decapitated upper torso and arms of an adult male. A braided leather armband with metal attachments was on the upper left arm and the remains of a two-ply, twisted wooden withe inserted a hole cut through the upper portion of the same arm. The remains were subject archaeological investigation (License no. 03E1241) and removed to the National Museum of Ireland (2003:14). The date of the body is unknown. (Stanley 2003) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 11 February 2014

Architectural heritage

• Clonearl House, outbuilding, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ranges of stone outbuildings, built c.1750, set around courtyard. Multiple-bay single- and two-storey buildings with pitched and hipped slate roofs. Renovated east wing with replacement widows and doors. Square and segmental-headed openings to north west and south wings, with remains of groin-vaulted carriage arch beneath former clock tower to west range. Remains of Clonearl House, underground rooms and water pump located on the 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonearl Demesne.

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

Name

Clonearl Demesne · Diméin Chluain Oirill

Area

2,880,838 m² (288.08 ha, 711.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilclonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Lower

Electoral division

Kilclonfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilclonfert electoral division: 448 people in 137 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Ballyowen, Ballyowen, Barnan, Clonearl, Down, Fortyacres, Killaderry, Killeshil, Oldcroghan

Placenames

Clonearl Demesne 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.