Alderborough

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alderborough, from 37 m² to 121,885 m² (12.19 ha, 30.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 · 6 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 · 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
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  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.

• 9 Sept 2025Conditional

  the use of a mobile food trailer to the rear of the existing property for a period of 5 years

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560412

• 21 Aug 2025N/a

  the use of a mobile food trailer to the rear of the existing property for a period of 5 years

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560380

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF ERECTING 5M HIGH LIGHT POLES FITTED WITH VEELITE METRO STREETLIGHTS 27W LED VERSION, OR EQUIVALENT, WITH OPTICS TO LIGHT THE EXISTING WALKING TRACK AT THE CLUB GROUNDS. THE WALKING TRACK IS LINKED TO THE EXISTING WALKING ROUTE IN GEASHILL VILLAGE WHICH HAS EXISTING SIMILAR LIGHTING ALONG THE BOUNDARY OF THE GAA GROUNDS ADJACENT TO THE PUBLIC ROAD. THE PROPOSED LIGHTING WILL ALLOW FOR THE ALL-YEAR ROUND USAGE OF THE CLUB'S WALKING TRACK

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22651

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  TWO NUMBER GARAGE'S, ONE NUMBER CAR PORT AND ONE NUMBER DOG KENNEL. THE APPLICATION WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS AND DRAINAGE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21569

• 19 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY HAY AND FORAGE (DRY) STORE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21513

• 9 Jul 2021N/a

  TWO NUMBER GARAGE'S AND ONE NUMBER DOG KENNELL. THE APPLICATION WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS AND DRAINAGE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21422

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND DRAINAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21223

• 26 Nov 2020Conditional

  (A) 1 NO NEW BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING , (B) 1 NO NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20594

• 20 Nov 2020Conditional

  AMENDMENT OF PREVIOUS PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REG. REF: 19/248 AND ABP-306693-20, AS FOLLOWS: 1. REDUCTION IN SIZE OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 2. REPLACEMENT OF THE GLAZED ROOF BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND PERMITTED EXTENSION WITH A FLAT ROOF WITH ROOFLIGHTS, 3. MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 4. NEW ROOFLIGHT TO EXISTING DWELLING, 5. ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED LAYOUT, AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS. THE PROPOSALS ARE WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20575

• 3 Nov 2020N/a

  AMMENDMENT OF PREVIOUS PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER REG. REF: 19/248 AND ABP-306693-20, AS FOLLOWS: 1. REDUCTION IN SIZE OF PERMITTED EXTENSION, 2. REPLACEMENT OF THE GLAZED ROOF BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND PERMITTED EXTENSION WITH A FLAT ROOF WITH ROOFLIGHTS, 3. MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PERMITTED EXTENSION, 4. NEW ROOFLIGHT TO EXISTING DWELLING, 5. ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED LAYOUT, AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20536

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  DOMESTIC EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, RETENTION OF 3 DOMESTIC STORES TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND RETENTION OF A VEHICLE PORT TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING SITE

  Retention, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 20472

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONVERSION OF ATTIC FROM STORAGE TO HABITABLE LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING NEW WINDOW TO THE WEST GABLE OF HOUSE AT FIRST FLOOR AND NEW ROOF LIGHTS TO FRONT AND REAR OF HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20338

• 2 Dec 2019Conditional

  (A) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED, (B) PERMISSION TO CONVERT EXISTING ATTIC SPACE OF HOUSE INTO LIVABLE ACCOMMODATION TO INCLUDE ROOF LIGHTS, (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL SOLAR PANELS TO THE HOUSE FRONT ELEVATION PITCHED ROOF, (D) PERMISSION FOR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19572

• 26 Nov 2019N/a

  (A) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED, (B) PERMISSION TO CONVERT EXISTING ATTIC SPACE OF HOUSE INTO LIVABLE ACCOMMODATION TO INCLUDE ROOF LIGHTS, (C) PERMISSION TO INSTALL SOLAR PANELS TO THE HOUSE FRONT ELEVATION PITCHED ROOF, (D) PERMISSION FOR GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 19559

• 19 Aug 2019Conditional

  TWO DOMESTIC SHEDS TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19408

• 30 May 2019Refused

  MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS TO THE EXISTING FORGE AND OUTBUILDINGS, WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE AND SHED TO INCLUDE TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE, WHICH IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED IN OFFALY CDP 2014 - 2020 RPS REF 35-13 AND NIAH REF 14814015, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19248

• 15 May 2019N/a

  RENOVATIONS, ALTERATIONS, DEMOLITIONS AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING STRUCTURES TO INCLUDE A TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING STRUCTURES, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES IN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE LISTED IN OFFALY CDP 2014 - 2020 RPS REF 35-13 AND NIAH REF 14814015

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19221

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18422

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 Alderborough.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-001 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains, now levelled. Landscape feature, artificial pond according to present owner. Depicted as a circular enclosure or as an antiquity on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. May have been an archaeological enclosure re-used as a landscape feature. 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

• Alderborough House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with projecting gable-fronted entrance bay, lean-to extension and outbuildings to rear. Set within its own extensive grounds. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, M-profiled gables hidden by parapets to front. Roughcast rendered chimneystacks, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Round-headed door opening with tooled stone surround and replacement timber and glass door surmounted by fanlight. Adjoining castellated wall to south-west gives access to rear site. Two-storey roughcast rendered outbuilding to rear site. House accessed by long drive with rendered gate lodge to south. Gate lodge demolished in 2005.

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 Alderborough.

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

Name

Alderborough · Baile an Troim

Area

617,192 m² (61.72 ha, 152.51 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Geashill electoral division: 1,659 people in 562 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curragh, Dalgan, Derryweelan, Geashill, Glebe East, Lugmore

Placenames

Alderborough 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.