Deerpark
Deerpark is a townland in the civil parish of Tisaran, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Páirc na bhFianna.
Parcel 296050
- Area
- 62,625 m² (6.26 ha, 15.47 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 127 m².
- 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
- Deerpark
Planning applications on this parcel
6 Nov 2024Conditional
construction of loose stables, a roofed manure pit, an all weather arena and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards and fencing - all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area utilising the existing farm entrance
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460440
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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1614 (ZIP).
- 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
- 121.7 ha
- 301 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 2,756 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deerpark, from 78 m² to 208,240 m² (20.82 ha, 51.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Deerpark 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
9 Sept 2026N/a
development at Árd Saran, Deerpark, Shannon Harbour, Birr, Co. Offaly, R42HX00. The development will consist of permission for new agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660484
2 Sept 2026N/a
new agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660466
3 Mar 2025Conditional
construction of a side and rear extension to existing domestic garage and to construct an agricultural shed to the rear of property to include solar panels installation, connection to existing water mains services on site, to install a rainwater harvesting system and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560058
6 Nov 2024Conditional
construction of loose stables, a roofed manure pit, an all weather arena and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards and fencing - all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area utilising the existing farm entrance
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460440
16 Aug 2022Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING RELOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22417
12 Nov 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND TO CLOSE TWO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCES AND CONSTRUCT A NEW COMBINED DOMESTIC AND AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21705
29 Jan 2019Conditional
NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1931
6 Jun 2017Conditional
A SLATTED CATTLE HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE, ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 17200
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 Deerpark.
Recorded monuments
- OF014-035 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the S facing slope of high ground with good extensive views to the S, E and W. Large poorly preserved circular area (diam 43.5m N-S) enclosed by very slight bank which has been reduced to a scarp in most places with slight shallow external fosse (Wth 3.5m) which is filled in places with no evidence of an entrance feature. The interior of the site slopes from N to S following the natural slope of the ground. Aerial photographs (GSI, N619/20) shows clear outline of large circular enclosure. 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
- OF014-036 Enclosure
Description
Not visible at ground level. Marked on first edition of OS 6-inch map as circular grove of tree with house attached NE. Possible 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Deerpark.
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 Deerpark, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1582 (ZIP).
- 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 Deerpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Deerpark · Páirc na bhFianna
- Area
- 1,217,199 m² (121.72 ha, 300.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tisaran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Huntston, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 393 people lived in 136 households in the Huntston electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghal More, Fearaghalee, Huntston, Kilcummin, Lisduff, Lissaniska, Moneenagunnell, Moystown Demesne
- Placenames
- Deerpark 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.