The Walk

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in The Walk, from 52 m² to 161,211 m² (16.12 ha, 39.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 18 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 · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 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 · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Mar 2026N/a

  (A) AS BUILT RAFT FOUNDATION FOR PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL UNIT AND (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO ERECT STEEL FRAMED RESIDENTIAL UNIT ON EXISTING RAFT FOUNDATION, INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2626

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  a new dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560666

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  an existing mobile home, storage shed and temporary septic tank. Permission is also being sought for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area, removal of existing mobile home, demolition of existing storage shed and decommissioning of temporary septic tank and all associated siteworks. It should be noted that the applicant intends to reside in the temporary mobile home on site and use the temporary septic tank on site until the permanent house is constructed. The removal of the mobile home and temporary septic tank will take place after the proposed house has been completed

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560657

• 10 Dec 2025N/a

  an existing mobile home, storage shed and temporary septic tank. Permission is also being sought for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area, removal of existing mobile home, demolition of existing storage shed and decommissioning of temporary septic tank and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560628

• 29 Jul 2025N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area and all associated siteworks at The Walk, Kinnitty, Birr, Co. Offaly.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560332

• 1 Jul 2025N/a

  a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560276

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22635

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING GLAMPING FACILITY INCORPORATING 4 ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL LOG CABINS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SHOWER/ TOILET FACILITIES BY ADDING 1 ADDITIONAL SHOWER/ TOILET FACILITY.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21781

• 29 Oct 2021Refused

  MOBILE HOME, SHED AND TEMPORARY SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION WILL CONSIST OF CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21677

• 9 Jul 2021Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21424

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 The Walk.

Recorded monuments

• OF036-029 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  A large enclosure defined a bank that has been planted with beech trees along its perimeterand a well preserved V-shaped profile. This appears to a be a tree-ring that has been created on the demesne of Kinnitty Castle. 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

Architectural heritage

• Ardmore House, house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, with gabled central bay, projecting gabled porch and double-pile to rear having gabled bays to east and west. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves, central gable, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Render removed from façade to reveal random course stone and brick surrounds to gable. Roughcast render to sides and return. Round and square-headed window openings with timber replacement windows and painted sills. Timber replacement door with side and fanlights in porch with pitched slate roof. Outbuildings to rear. Cast-iron water pump in yard. Site bounded by squared random coursed walls with soldier coping. Rock-faced ashlar gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

• Parterre, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1830, with three-bay single-storey return to rear. Set within own grounds. Replacement hipped corrugated asbestos roof to house with pitched slate roof to return, having red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with timber eaves course. Triple-light ogee-headed window openings with cast-iron lattice windows, limestone sills and label mouldings. Square-headed door opening set in ogee-headed recess with label moulding and timber battened door. Smooth rendered walls. Square headed window and door openings with segmental-headed carriage arch to gable wall.

• Glenview, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with return to rear. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof. Catslide and pitched roofs to rear. Rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed render to walls with smooth plinth. Replacement uPVC windows to stone sills. Modern stone surrounds with label mouldings to front facade. Timber panelled door with overlight and modern limestone surround. Dressed limestone step to door. Rendered boundary wall to 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

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 The Walk.

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

Name

The Walk · An Casán

Area

1,343,355 m² (134.34 ha, 331.95 acres)

Civil parish

Kinnitty, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Kinnitty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinnitty electoral division: 596 people in 207 households; 75% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincur, Castletown and Glinsk, Knockbarron, Lismoney, Moneyguyneen

Placenames

The Walk 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.