Church Hill

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Church Hill, from 3,017 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 145,781 m² (14.58 ha, 36.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Church Hill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Church Hill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Church Hill.

Recorded monuments

• OF024-005 Church
  Description

  Located on top of a hill with good extensive views. Crudely built rectangular church (ext. dims. 7.1m N-S; 10.2m E-W; wall T 0.75m) built with roughly coursed limestone blocks of irregular shape and size with some very large boulders at the base of the wall. Some of the stones are set on edge giving a cyclopean appearance to the masonry with the interior of the wall being filled with loose rubble and mortar. No architectural features evident due to poor condition of church remains. There are several unmarked stones protruding from the ground surrounding the church which may be grave markers. The church appears to belong to the early medieval period due to its size and wall construction. Church known locally as 'Shanahill' (OHAS file 1974). Testing was undertaken by Miriam Carroll under licence no. 04E1677 of a proposed quarry site adjacent to a church and graveyard (SMR 24:5). Seven trenches were excavated within the limits of the proposed development area to the north and west of the monument. No archaeological finds or features relating to the church site were uncovered in the trenches. Miriam Carroll, Tobar Archaeological Services, 15 Willowfields, Ladysbridge, Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. 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 April 2009

• OF024-005001 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on top of a hill with good extensive views. Crudely built rectangular church (OF024-005----) built with roughly coursed limestone blocks of irregular shape and size with some very large boulders at the base of the wall. There are several unmarked stones protruding from the ground surrounding the church which may be grave markers. Graveyard indicated on first edition of the OS 6-inch map but not on the current edition. Testing was undertaken by Miriam Carroll under licence no. 04E1677 of a proposed quarry site adjacent to a church and graveyard (SMR 24:5). Seven trenches were excavated within the limits of the proposed development area to the north and west of the monument. No archaeological finds or features relating to the church site were uncovered in the trenches. Miriam Carroll, Tobar Archaeological Services, 15 Willowfields, Ladysbridge, Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revision: 23 April 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Church Hill.

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 Church Hill.

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.

• Church Hill, Tullamore56 sales
• Church Hill, Hophill Road28 sales

Name

Church Hill · Cnoc na Seanchille

Area

380,095 m² (38.01 ha, 93.92 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Derrycooly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derrycooly electoral division: 297 people in 92 households; 95% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Currygurry, Glasshouse, Oldtown, Rabbitburrow

Placenames

Church Hill 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.