Cloghan

256 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghan, from 12 m² to 52,775 m² (5.28 ha, 13.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 183 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 · 30 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 · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  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.

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  AMENDMENTS TO AS BUILT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ FUEL SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PL2/15/355. THIS APPLICATION INCLUDES (A) RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO SITE AREA, BOUNDARY TREATMENT, LOCATION OF DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE/ FUEL SHED AND (B) RETENTION OF AS BUILT DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 25121

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  levelling the land of the proposed new wild flower and football pitch area which included installation of land drainage pipes to same and also to apply for Planning Permission to extend the existing facilities site boundaries to include a powder coated fence to the eastern boundary to match existing and native hedgerow to the southern boundary and 1m high rendered block wall to the western boundary to match existing wall, to extend 1.2m wide walking track around same to match the existing walking track, install seating and bicycle parking, a wild flower area, a new football pitch with ball stop nets, LED flood lighting and all associated site works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560185

• 11 Mar 2025Conditional

  19458 FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF 8 NO. THREE BED TWO STOREY DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ROADS

  Extension of duration · Offaly County Council, EX25002

• 3 Mar 2025N/a

  extension of the existing facilities site boundaries to include a powder coated fence to the eastern boundary to match existing and native hedgerow to the southern boundary and 1m high rendered block wall to the western boundary to match existing wall, to extend 1.2m wide walking track around same to match the existing walking track, install seating and bicycle parking and 15no. additional car parking spaces along with 2no. marked coach parking areas to existing parking area, a wild flower area, a new football pitch with ball stop nets, LED flood lighting and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560059

• 6 Dec 2024N/a

  THE EXTENTION TO EXISITNG FACILITIES SITE BOUNDARIES TO INCLUDE A POWDER COATED FENCE TO THE EASTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING AND NATIVE HEDGEROW TO THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY AND 1M HIGH RENDERED BLOCK WALL TO THE WESTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING WALL, TO EXTEND 1.2M WIDE WALKING TRACK AROUND SAME TO MATCH THE EXISITNG WALKING TRACK, INSTALL SEATING AND BICYCLE PARKING, A WILD FLOWER AREA, A NEW FOOTBALL PITCH WITH BALL STOP NETS, LED FLOOD LIGHTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 24174

• 14 Oct 2024N/a

  EXTENDING THE EXISTING FACILITIES SITE BOUNDARIES TO INCLUDE A POWDER COATED FENCE TO THE EASTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING AND NATIVE HEDGEROW TO THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY AND 1M HIGH RENDERED BLOCK WALL TO THE WESTERN BOUNDARY TO MATCH EXISTING WALL, TO EXTEND 1.2M WIDE WALKING TRACK AROUND SAME TO MATCH THE EXISTING WALKING TRACK, INSTALL SEATING AND BICYCLE PARKING, A WILD FLOWER AREA, A NEW FOOTBALL PITCH WITH BALL STOP NETS, LED FLOOD LIGHTING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 24151

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. NEW DWELLING HOUSES, WITH DOMESTIC GARAGES/FUEL SHEDS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 23433

• 13 Jun 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23278

• 13 Jun 2023N/a

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23290

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  TWO NUMBER SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2388

• 28 Sept 2022N/a

  TO CONSTRUCT TWO NUMBER SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22499

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22136

• 10 Mar 2022Refused

  TO DEMOLISH EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND TO CONSTRUCT A PROPOSED REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT PUBLIC HOUSE, INSTALL A NEW FRONT DOOR, CONVERT EXISTING PUBLIC HOUSE AREA TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION WITH THE BUILDING TO CONTAIN 5 NO. APARTMENTS, INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER AND EXISTING WATER MAINS SERVICES ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 5 homes · Offaly County Council, 22114

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  BOUNDARIES AS CONSTRUCTED AT DWELLING NUMBER 25 CLUAIN NA SPIDEOGA IN SO FAR AS THEY DIFFER IN LOCATION FROM THAT APPROVED UNDER PREVIOUS PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE NO. 06/30 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20657

• 19 Sept 2019Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF 8 NO. THREE BED TWO STOREY DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ROADS

  Permission, 8 homes · Offaly County Council, 19458

• 7 Jul 2017Conditional

  A CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND AND WILL ALSO INCLUDE THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING OLD CLUBROOM ON SITE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17242

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. NEW THREE BEDROOM TWO STOREY SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES ON SERVICED SITES, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. PL2/00/1316 & PL2/06/1071 COMPRISING OF (A) 2 NO. 2 STOREY 3 BEDROOM SEMI DETACHED (HOUSE TYPE A) (B) 2 NO. 2 STOREY 3 BEDROOM SEMI DETACHED (HOUSE TYPE B) (C) 2 NO. 2 STOREY 3 BEDROOM SEMI DETACHED (HOUSE TYPE C)

  Permission, 6 homes · Offaly County Council, 17204

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 Cloghan.

Recorded monuments

• OF022-013 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Illustrated by Grose in Antiquities of Ireland (Stalley 1991, 131). Square shaped structure three storeys high with hipped roof and large windows set in wide round arched embrasures with machicolation at roof level visible. Probable 17th-century fortified house which replaced earlier 16th-century castle. Stronghold of the Mac Coghlans destroyed in 1548 (Cooke 1875, 330). 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

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced corner-sited five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with integral carriage arch to three-bay side elevation. Fronts directly onto street. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls with plinth, random coursed stone wall to gable. Timber sash windows with tooled painted stone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with spider web fanlight, geometric sidelights and timber panelled door. Segmental-headed carriage arch with timber battened door. Detached multiple-bay two-storey roughcast rendered and random coursed stone outbuilding to rear site with pitched slate roof.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with shopfront to ground floor. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to ground floor with roughcast render to first floor, smooth render plinth, quoins and string course. Timber casement windows with painted sills. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door with overlight. Shopfront comprises large display windows, glazed timber door with overlight. Shopfront flanked by fluted pilasters with console brackets, timber fascia and cornice. Stone outbuilding with corrugated roof to north. Site to north bounded by random coursed rubble wall and accessed through corrugated-iron gate.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan Roman Catholic church built, c.1860, with canted bay apse and three-stage tower with spire and sacristy to north-east and entrance porches to north-west, north-east and south-east. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Ruled-and-lined render to walls. Variety of window openings such as pointed-arched openings with hoodmouldings, tooled stone sills containing stained glass windows with timber tracery and oculae with hoodmouldings and timber spoked windows. Pointed-arched door openings set within porches with timber battened doors. Queen-strut trusses to panelled ceiling. Marble altar furniture. Grotto to south and upright grave markers to north-east. Site bounded by pebbledashed wall.

• Weighbridge/weighhouse, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron weighbridge, c.1900, with maker's mark and upright scales. Situated next to the green. Scale with fluted shaft and curving arm. Inscription reads 'W. & T. Avery Ltd Makers Glasgow'.

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 Cloghan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Cloghan · An Clochán

Area

623,679 m² (62.37 ha, 154.11 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

Ballyloughan, Creggan and Glosterboy, Galros, Killeenboy, Magherabane, Tonlemone

Placenames

Cloghan 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.