Lowerton More

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowerton More, from 163 m² to 428,890 m² (42.89 ha, 105.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 More 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.

• 8 Jun 2026N/a

  A.erect a 24m high lattice telecommunication structure with associated dishes, antenna and supporting equipment together with access track, and to remove the existing 18m high lattice telecommunication within the same compound, and B.Retention permission to retain the existing telecommunications compound and associated ground-based equipment and fencing

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660308

• 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

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, BORED WELL, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2580

• 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

• 24 Jun 2024Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING TWO-STOREY DWELLING, WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH BASEMENT, MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO INCLUDE RE-ROOFING, THE INSTALLATION OF ROOFLIGHTS, ADJUSTMENTS TO WINDOWS AND DOOR OPENINGS AND ALL INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR WORKS TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES AND BOUNDARIES TO IMPROVE SIGHTLINE VISIBILITY TO BOTH, THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND THE PROPOSED INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2479

• 31 Aug 2023N/a

  a single storey dwelling house with an entrance onto the public road, an agricultural shed, and an effluent wastewater treatment system with percolation area.

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360090

• 16 Aug 2023N/a

  a single storey dwelling house with an entrance onto the public road, an agricultural shed, and an effluent wastewater treatment system with percolation area

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2360069

• 27 Jan 2023Refused

  EXISTING 1.5 STOREY DOMESTIC SHED CONTAINING HOME OFFICE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2323

• 11 Jul 2022Refused

  PROPOSED INCREASED FOOTPRINT TO THE EXISTING 2-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING; PROPOSED EXTENSIONS RANGING FROM SINGLE STOREY TO THE NORTH/NORTH-EAST ELEVATION AND 3-STOREY EXTENSIONS TO ALL OTHER ELEVATIONS; INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT; PROPOSED INCREASE IN THE OVERALL HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING HOUSE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ROOF TO TIE INTO THE PROPOSED EXTENSION. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO SEES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ROOF AND ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WALL AND EXTERNAL ELEVATIONAL TREATMENTS INCLUDING NEW WINDOWS AND DOORS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED EXTENSION. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH A NEW PROPRIETY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. NO CHANGES ARE PROPOSED TO THE EXISTING SITE BOUNDARIES OR VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO THE SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22347

• 26 Apr 2022N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND EXTENSIONS TO THE SOUTH, EAST AND WEST OF EXISTING HOUSE. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO SEES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ROOF, NEW EXTERNAL WALL TREATMENTS, NEW WINDOWS, AND NEW EXTERNAL DOORS WITH A CONNECTION TO NEW PROPRIETY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLIARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22210

• 26 Oct 2021N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND EXTENSIONS TO THE SOUTH, EAST AND WEST OF EXISTING HOUSE. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO SEES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ROOF, NEW EXTERNAL WALL TREATMENTS, NEW WINDOWS, AND NEW EXTERNAL DOORS WITH A CONNECTION TO NEW PROPRIETY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21663

• 28 Sept 2021N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR, WITH FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE EAST AND WEST OF EXISTING HOUSE. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO SEES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ROOF, NEW EXTERNAL TREATMENTS AND NEW WINDOWS AND NEW EXTERNAL DOORS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21590

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SITE ENTRANCE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21338

• 30 Apr 2021Refused

  EXISTING 1.5 STOREY DOMESTIC SHED CONTAINING HOME OFFICE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21259

• 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

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ONE-STOREY THREE BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE, NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19160

• 8 Nov 2017N/a

  AN EXISTING 18 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE WITH ANTENNAS, EQUIPMENT CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND AND ACCESS TRACK. THE DEVELOPMENT FORMS PART OF VODAFONE IRELAND LIMITED'S EXISTING GSM AND 3G BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 17440

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17364

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17365

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilcormac Esker 000906

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lowerton More.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lowerton More.

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 5 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 Lowerton More.

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

Name

Lowerton More · Lúghortán Mór

Area

1,849,684 m² (184.97 ha, 457.07 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

Ballycore, Ballyfarrell, Coolanarney, Curraghmeelagh, Garbally, Garbally or Foxglen, Lowerton Beg, Rathlihen

Placenames

Lowerton More 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.