Clashagad Upper

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clashagad Upper, from 142 m² to 688,168 m² (68.82 ha, 170.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Clashagad Upper 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.

• 12 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the erection of a 24m lattice telecommunications support structure on a 1.2 metre high raised foundation (providing an overall height of 25.2 metres) together with associated antennas and dishes and to remove the existing 15 metre lattice telecommunications structure with antennas and dish (providing an overall height of 17.1 metres). The proposed development is all enclosed within an existing compound

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460448

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 Clashagad Upper.

Recorded monuments

• OF045-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on level ground in flat countryside. Subcircular area (diam 26m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 1.2m) and causeway entrance (Wth 4m) at E. Inner bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m), outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.7m). 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

• OF045-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on level ground in flat countryside. Raised oval shaped platform (diam 22m N-S; 15m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 2.2m max. at N) and external fosse (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 1m) best preserved at W with causeway entrance (Wth 3.5m) at 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

• OF045-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise in upland area. D-shaped area (55m E-W; 40m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.3m) with entrance gap (Wth 4m) at N. 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

• House, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c.1820, with porch to rear. Set back from the road within a modern farm. Now vacant. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystack with terracotta pot and concrete coping to eaves. Flat corrugated-iron roof to rear porch. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Square-headed door opening with panelled door and overlight. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door.

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 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 Clashagad Upper.

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

Name

Clashagad Upper · Glaise an Ghadaí Uachtarach

Area

1,467,826 m² (146.78 ha, 362.71 acres)

Civil parish

Dunkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Dunkerrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunkerrin electoral division: 385 people in 131 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleroan, Clashagad Lower, Clonagannagh, Franckfort, Ouris, Rathnaveoge Lower (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Clashagad Upper 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.