Fancroft

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fancroft, from 75 m² to 198,451 m² (19.85 ha, 49.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Fancroft 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.

• 26 Oct 2023Conditional

  EXTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 06/91 INCLUDING CHANGES TO EXTERNAL WINDOWS, DOORS AND ROOF LIGHTS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2360164

• 5 Oct 2023N/a

  EXTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 06/91 INCLUDING CHANGES TO EXTERNAL WINDOWS, DOORS AND ROOF LIGHTS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23391

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  A BLOCK BUILT, SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING. A SINGLE STOREY METAL SHED ATTACHED TO EXISTING STORAGE SHEDS USING THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK/PERCOLATION, EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21250

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  ALL AS BUILT CHANGES TO EXISTING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PALNNING PERMISSION (REF:0866). CHANGES WILL INCLUDE NEW INTERNAL LAYOUT TO ROOMS AT GROUND FLOOR AND FIRST FLOOR INCLUDING CHANGES TO LOCATION OF WINDOWS AND DOORS AT REAR AND SIDE ELEVATIONS. PLANNING PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR COMPLETION OF THE SITE ENTRANCE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21189

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 Fancroft.

Recorded monuments

• OF043-020 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained land beside small stream with church and graveyard (OF043-023001-/002-) to SSE. Present remains consist of a heavily overgrown flat-topped mound (H 5m; Top diam. 6m) defined by a scarp with a berm around its base and traces of an external waterlogged fosse. No evidence of a bailey. Base of motte is cut at N by a small stream running E-W (Cunningham 1987, 131). 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

• OF043-023 Church
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in upland area. Irregular shaped graveyard enclosed by stone wall with church located in N sector of graveyard (OF043-023001-). Rectangular shaped building (ext. dims. 12.8m N-S; 8.3m E-W; wall T 0.9m) constructed with roughly coursed sandstone rubble. Most of the S wall is destroyed with a single light window in the W gable and two partially destroyed windows in the N wall. There is a curious flat headed doorway at S end of the E gable giving access to a chamber which is built onto the E wall (5.1m N-S; wall T 0.6m) which was possibly a priests residence. There is a small window at the N end of the E wall. There is no evidence for a large E window. There is a linear earthwork or sunken way (Wth. 13m) located to the E of the church running along a NE-SW axis which is flanked on either side by an earthen bank. Possibly a medieval road (OF043-023002-) gives access to the church and graveyard which has no modern access road. The presence of punch dressed limestone jambs in the window suggests a late medieval date. Motte (OF043-020----) located approx. 400m to NW. 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

• OF043-023001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in upland area. Irregular shaped graveyard enclosed by stone wall with church (OF043-023----) located in N sector of graveyard. Possible sunken medieval road (OF043-023002-) gives access to the church which is contemporary with the church and graveyard which has no modern access. Motte (OF043-020----) located approx. 400m to NW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF043-023002 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in upland area. Irregular shaped graveyard enclosed by stone wall with church (OF043-023----) located in N sector of graveyard (OF043-023001-). Roadway consists of a linear earthwork or sunken way (Wth. 13m) located to the E of the church running along a NE-SW axis which is flanked on either side by an earthen bank. Motte (OF043-020----) located approx. 500m to NW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF043-023003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Curving arc of possible ecclesiastical enclosure visible in field 95m N of Fancroft church (OF043-023----) and graveyard (OF043-023001-) clearly visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 18/01/2018. Possible motte (OF043-020----) in field 170m to NW and sunken road (OF043-023002-) 50m to NE. The curving arc may represent the continuation of the road around the base of the hillock on which the medieval church is located. No trace of enclosure to E or S of church and graveyard although the field is covered in post-1700 ridge and furrow cultivation ridges which may have removed traces of any enclosing element on this side of the church. See attached aerial photograph taken from Google Earth. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Rob O'Hara Date of upload: 25 February 2020

• OF043-076001 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Outline of possible conjoined ring-barrows clearly visible on Google Earth aerial image taken 18/01/2018. Monument consists of a low circular mound (approx. diam. 9m) defined by a fosse with second barrow immediately to E. See attached aerial photograph taken from Google Earth. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Rob O'Hara Date of upload: 25 February 2020

• OF043-076002 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Outline of possible conjoined barrows (OF043-076001-) clearly visible on Google Earth aerial image taken 18/01/2018. Monument consists of a low circular mound (approx. diam. 9m) defined by a fosse with second barrow immediately to W. See attached aerial photograph taken from Google Earth. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Rob O'Hara Date of upload: 25 February 2020

Architectural heritage

• Fancroft Mills, miller's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey miller's house, built c.1860, with flanking bays. Located south of Fancroft Mills. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with stucco quoins. Stucco string course separated ground from first floor. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows, stone sills and stucco architrave surrounds. Wyatt windows to ground floor garden elevation. Decorative coloured glass to windows in projecting entrance bay. Square-headed door opening with stucco architrave surround and timber panelled and glazed door. L-plan outbuilding abutting house to west. Enclosed yard to east of house.

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

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1820, with entrance porch added c.1880, and canted bay to south-west. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with a limestone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sash windows. Some replacement timber casement window to rear and side elevations. Square-headed door opening to porch with stucco cornice. Ruined two-storey outbuildings to yard to north-east of house. Walled garden to north-east of house. House accessed through wrought-iron double gates supported by rendered piers and flanked by railings on a plinth wall.

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 high, 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 Fancroft.

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

Name

Fancroft · Fionnchora

Area

1,990,824 m² (199.08 ha, 491.94 acres)

Civil parish

Seirkieran, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghancon electoral division: 371 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghody, Ballyrickard More, Cloonagh (Co. Tipperary), Coolroe, Danganreagh, Dungar, Glascloon, Rooaun

Placenames

Fancroft 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.