Magherabane

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherabane, from 118 m² to 85,786 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Magherabane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magherabane.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with single bay to east incorporating integral carriage arch. Extension to rear. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth, string course and eaves course. Timber sash windows with painted sills. Segmental-headed door opening with spoked fanlight, sidelights and timber panelled door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with roughcast rendered walls, corrugated-iron roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed stone wall bounds rear 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

At the centre of the townland of Magherabane, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Magherabane · An Machaire Bán

Area

986,729 m² (98.67 ha, 243.83 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghan, Coolreagh or Cloghanhill, Creggan and Glosterboy, Stonestown, Tonlemone

Placenames

Magherabane 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.