Roundhill
Roundhill is a townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is An Chorr.
Parcel 291018
- Area
- 35,186 m² (3.52 ha, 8.69 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Roundhill
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 48.9 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 24,327 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roundhill, from 806 m² to 157,645 m² (15.76 ha, 38.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roundhill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Oct 2025Conditional
the amendment to the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) omitting 4 previously approved No. Lean-to Type Houses (Previous Ref: E 1-4), and replacing with 3 No. Portal Frame type houses (Ref: E1-3), and, b) providing for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm, resulting in an increase in breeding stock and a reduction in production pigs, at Roundhill and Derry Upper, Kilcormac, Co. Offaly. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560468
1 Oct 2025N/a
The development will consist of : planning permission to amend the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) omitting 4 previously approved No. Lean-to Type Houses (Previous Ref: E 1-4), and replacing with 3 No. Portal Frame type houses (Ref: E1-3), and, b) providing for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm, resulting in an increase in breeding stock and a reduction in production pigs,
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560459
15 Sept 2025N/a
the amendment to the development previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60196 by a) replacing houses Ref: E 1-4, with houses Ref: E1-3, and, b) provide for an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560422
14 Jul 2025N/a
an alteration to the previously approved stock numbers on the pig farm from that as approved by Offaly Co. Co. under Planning Ref: 23/60196 (approved 06/12/2024).
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560305
17 Nov 2023Conditional
To demolish 4 No. existing pig houses and to construct 6 No. pig houses and extensions to 2 No. existing pig houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s)) and associated site works arising from the above proposed development on an existing pig farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360196
13 Nov 2023N/a
demolition of 4 No. existing pig houses and to construct 6 No. pig houses and extensions to 2 No. existing pig houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s)) and associated site works arising from the above proposed development on an existing pig farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) relating to this proposed development will be submitted with this planning application.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360185
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roundhill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roundhill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roundhill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Roundhill, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roundhill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roundhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Roundhill · An Chorr
- Area
- 489,086 m² (48.91 ha, 120.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eglish
- Electoral division
- Drumcullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 454 people lived in 152 households in the Drumcullen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyroe, Colmanstown, Curragh Lower, Derry Upper, Thomastown Demesne
- Placenames
- Roundhill 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.