Cangort Park

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cangort Park, from 154 m² to 551,933 m² (55.19 ha, 136.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Cangort Park 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.

• 30 Jan 2017Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1726

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 Cangort Park.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cangort Park.

Architectural heritage

• Cangort Park, country house, 1805–1810 · National interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1807, with bow to east-facing side elevation and recessed entrance porch. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and open eaves. Ruled-and-lined roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone plinth course and quoins to basement. Timber sash windows with hammer dressed limestone surrounds and sills. Keystones to windows on ground floor. Windows to front elevation and bow with chamfered limestone surrounds. Continuous sill course to first floor windows on front and side elevations with shouldered arch detail above entrance. Ground floor windows flanking bow set within blind arches. Segmental-headed window openings to basement of east-facing side elevation with limestone block-and-start surrounds and horizontal sliding sash windows. Cambered-arch window openings to front and rear elevations with horizontal sliding sash windows. Recessed entrance porch consists of a segmental-headed arched opening with hammer dressed limestone architrave, deeply coved stucco surround leadings into the porch with a groin-vaulted ceiling. Segmental-headed arch with panelled soffit frames square-headed door opening with architrave surround flanked by pilasters with console brackets supporting dentil cornice and decorative foliate frieze. Glazed double doors with classical panel set within egg-and-dart frame above. Greek key skirting to porch. Door accessed up six limestone steps. Basement area enclosed by rendered plinth wall. Sundial set on a fluted limestone column to front site. Ruined summerhouse to rear site. Coursed rubble stone wall enclosed front site to west. Limestone piers and wrought-iron gates and railings to front site. Walled garden and stable yard to west of house.

• Cangort Park, barn, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay open-fronted barn, built c.1810, with nine circular-profile corbelled piers supporting roof. M-profile corrugated-iron roof with flanking lean-to bays. Random coursed walls to sides and rear of barn. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding adjacent with pitched corrugated-iron roof, roughcast rendered walls, brick vents to upper floor and three carriage arches with limestone voussoirs to ground floor.

• Cangort Park, stables, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan six-bay two-storey stable block, built c.1840, with single-storey lean-to bays to rear. No longer in use. Located in farmyard of Cangort Park and facing onto a partially cobbled yard. Hipped slate roof, half-hipped to projecting rear bay, with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, louvred roof vents and yellow brick chimneystacks with saw-tooth cornices. Coursed rubble limestone walls with yellow brick dressings and blind Diocletian arches to first floor front elevation. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick surrounds, limestone sills and timber sash and cast-iron lattice pivot windows. Oculi set within Diocletian arches to upper floor.

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 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 Cangort Park.

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.

• Cangort Park, Shinrone5 sales

Name

Cangort Park · Páirc an Chamghoirt

Area

1,499,517 m² (149.95 ha, 370.54 acres)

Civil parish

Shinrone, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Cangort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cangort electoral division: 200 people in 71 households; 86% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cangort Demesne, Derrinclare, Druminduff, Kilcomin, Toora

Placenames

Cangort Park 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.