Lowerton Beg

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowerton Beg, from 378 m² to 303,373 m² (30.34 ha, 74.97 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 Lowerton Beg 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.

• 6 Aug 2026N/a

  FOR 21/233 FOR A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, EX26011

• 1 May 2026Conditional

  (A) DOMESTIC GARAGE, AS CONSTRUCTED TO DATE, AND PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 25/56 AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME. (B) RETENTION PERMISSION OF MOBILE HOME/TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION TOGETHER WITH SURROUNDING SCREEN FENCING, CONCRETE GROUND SLAB AND ASSOCIATED WORKS (C) RETENTION PERMISSION OF CONCRETE FOUNDATION AND BLOCK WALL, AS CONSTRUCTED TO DATE, WHICH ARE LOCATED ON THE INNER SIDE OF PROPOSED FRONT BOUNDARY HEDGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO.25/56, CONDITION 6(B) AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME AND (D) RETENTION PERMISSION OF AS FORMED WINDOW AND VELUX CONFIGURATION IN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AS CONSTRUCTED TO DATE, AND PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 25/56 AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2640

• 13 Apr 2026N/a

  (A) DOMESTIC GARAGE, AS CONSTRUCTED TO DATE, AND PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 25/56 AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME. (B) RETENTION PERMISSION OF MOBILE HOME/ TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION TOGETHER WITH SURROUNDING SCREEN FENCING, CONCRETE GROUND SLAB AND ASSOCIATED WORKS (C) RETENTION PERMISSION OF CONCRETE FOUNDATION AND BLOCK WALL, AS CONSTRUCTED TO DATE, WHICH ARE LOCATED ON THE INNER SIDE OF PROPOSED FRONT BOUNDARY HEDGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 25/56, CONDITION 6(B) AND FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE SAME AND (D) RETENTION PERMISSION OF AS FORMED WINDOW AND VELUX CONFIGURATION IN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AS CONSTRUCTED TO DATE, AND PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 25/56 AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2634

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND BUILD NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMETIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 25122

• 17 Nov 2025N/a

  THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND BUILD NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 25116

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A NEW DORMER STYLE DWELLING, CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, THE ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARGAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2556

• 22 Jul 2024N/a

  Construction of a Bungalow Dwelling with Garage, Effluent Treatment System and together with site access & all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460275

• 11 Jul 2024N/a

  Construction of a Bungalow Dwelling with Garage, Effluent Treatment System and together with site access & all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460270

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  (A) CHANGE OF USE FROM GARAGE TO FAMILY APARTMENT, AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460029

• 12 Apr 2023N/a

  (A) CHANGE OF USE FROM GARAGE TO FAMILY APARTMENT, AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23161

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21233

• 2 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTED DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPERATE FUEL STORE TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING. PERMISSION TO ERECT A NEW MACHINERY SHED TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, FOR ATTIC CONVERSION INCORPORATING THE ADDITION OF 3 NO. DORMER WINDOWS TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING TEMPORARY STORAGE SHED

  Retention, 4 homes · Offaly County Council, 20603

• 24 Apr 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENTION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, RELOCATION OF THE SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20152

• 17 Jun 2019Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW DOMESTIC WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19286

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED CONTRARY TO PLANNING PERMISSION REF 13/147 AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO SAME TO INCLUDE HOME OFFICE/GYM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19197

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 Lowerton Beg.

Recorded monuments

• OF024-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on S facing slope of a hill just below the summit. Circular area (diam c. 55m ) enclosed by two banks with intervening fosse and external fosse. Inner bank (Wth 1m; int. H 2m; ext. H 4m), fosse (Wth 2.5m, int. D 4m), outer bank (Wth 2m, ext. H 3m , int. H 4m) and outer fosse (Wth 3m). Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at E. The inner bank gently slopes into the interior giving the interior an amphitheatre effect. The interior of the site slopes from N to S. 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 Lowerton Beg.

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 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 Lowerton Beg.

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

Name

Lowerton Beg · Lúghortán Beag

Area

1,523,795 m² (152.38 ha, 376.54 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Killoughy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killoughy electoral division: 771 people in 261 households; 82% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyealan, Curraghmeelagh, Lowerton More, Mullaghcrohy, Rathkeeragan, Rathlihen, Rathmurragh

Placenames

Lowerton Beg 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.