Clyduff

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clyduff, from 62 m² to 458,885 m² (45.89 ha, 113.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Clyduff 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.

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  Extension and Renovation To Existing Derelict Dwelling, New Entrance, New Wastewater Treatment System And All Associated Site Works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660342

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  a dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560509

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  (A) CHANGE OF USE OF ATTIC SPACE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION. (B) AMENDMENTS TO DWELLING FACADES. (C) REVISED SITE ENTRANCE. PERMISSION FOR (A) DEMOLITION OF SOUTH SIDE DWELLING EXTENSION, AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SOUTH SIDE DWELLING EXTENSION. (B) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19108

• 14 Jun 2017Conditional

  A)AS-CONSTRUCTED FARM ROADWAYS ON APPLICANTS' LANDS, B)PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUILDINGS ON SITE, C) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A NEW MILKING PARLOUR & DAIRY, CATTLE CRUSH, SLATTED CUBICLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANKS, HARD STANDING TURNING YARDS & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 17212

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 Clyduff.

Recorded monuments

• OF042-035 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as a sub-circular shaped earthwork or enclosure on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map and as a circular grove of trees on the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map. Modern houses have been built on the site of the possible enclosure. No surface remains visible. 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/revision: 04 January 2012

• OF045-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential enclosure possible identified from aerial photographs taken in 1974 (GSI 4750m). Of doubtful antiquity. 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

• Clyduff House, farm house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse, built c.1810, with full-height return and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with open eaves, cast-iron profiled gutters, roughcast rendered chimneystacks with terracotta chimneypots. Roughcast rendered walls with cast-iron water pump to rear elevation and weather slating to northern side elevation. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Wyatt windows to ground floor level of façade. Timber casement windows to basement with cast-iron bars. Segmental-headed doorcase with timber spoked fanlight, stone Doric columns and replacement glazed timber door accessed via tooled stone steps. Central cobbled yard to rear with two two-storey stone outbuildings having pitched slate roofs. Tooled stone block-and-start door surrounds to south outbuilding and integral carriage arches and battened doors to north outbuilding. Segmental-headed carriage arch entrance to road within random coursed walls having tooled stone voussoirs and adjacent stone block-and-start door surround. Incised date of 1897 to inner side of door surround. Upper yard with derelict stone outbuildings and former workers’ accommodation with brick openings and carriage arches. Walled garden to north retaining notable species of fruit trees. Lower yard to south of central yard with two two-storey outbuildings, both bearing date plaques reading ‘Erected by H.B. Kenny August 1904’. Formal linear planting of beech trees to north of house. Gateway to road with inner and outer vermiculated rendered piers, with ball finials, sweeping roughcast rendered walls and iron gates.

• Anne Grove House, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1820, with single-storey porch, two-storey return and extension and single-storey extension to rear and uPVC conservatory added to south. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof to front porch. Roughcast rendered walls with cast-iron water tank to north elevation. Timber sash windows with tooled stone and concrete sills to front elevation. Patterned glass and margin lights to porch window. Replacement uPVC and timber casement to rear. Replacement timber door to porch. Abutting single-storey concrete flat-roofed outbuilding to rear. L-plan single- and two-storey stone outbuildings to south with pitched slate roofs. Single-storey outbuildings to north of house with corrugated-iron and slate roofs. Cast-iron animal weighbridge to front site with raised lettering reading ‘Poole & Son, Liverpool & Glasgow, Champion Farmer’. Rendered piers and sweeping walls to road with wrought-iron gate and stone wheel guards.

• Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1863, carrying a minor road over the Ballybrophy Limerick line. Erected by the Great Southern and Western Railway. Roughly dressed sandstone blocks randomly laid with rusticated quoins to abutments. Segmental profile arch with rusticated voussoirs. Finely dressed string courses and parapets with dressed coping stones.

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1677 (ZIP).

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

Name

Clyduff · An Claí Dubh

Area

2,711,869 m² (271.19 ha, 670.12 acres)

Civil parish

Dunkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Mountheaton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountheaton electoral division: 665 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrack, Clonbrennan, Cloncracken (Co. Tipperary), Glascloon, Kilballyskea, Milltown, Mountheaton, Rutland, Scorduff

Placenames

Clyduff 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.