Carrigeen

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigeen, from 1,945 m² to 202,459 m² (20.25 ha, 50.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrigeen 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.

• 21 Jun 2025Conditional

  existing agricultural developments and all associated siteworks at Carrigeen, Fivealley, Birr, Co. Offaly. These developments consist of Milking Parlour Shed & Silo, Cow Cubicle Sheds, Machinery/Straw Sheds, Workshop, Cow Sheds with Slatted Effluent Storage Tanks, Silage Pits, Lay-By and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560254

• 21 Jun 2025Conditional

  Permission for a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560255

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: Lough Coura 000909

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrigeen.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrigeen.

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.

No address of the register names Carrigeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Carrigeen · Na Carraigíní

Area

515,134 m² (51.51 ha, 127.29 acres)

Civil parish

Eglish, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Derryad, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 89 households in the Derryad electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykealy, Derrymullin and Loughderry, Lowerheath, Parkmore, Whigsborough

Placenames

Carrigeen 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.