Castlefield

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlefield, from 1 m² to 135,510 m² (13.55 ha, 33.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Castlefield 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.

• 23 Dec 2024Refused

  Construction of a two-storey dwelling, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance, driveway and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460534

• 3 Oct 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23389

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20357

• 29 Jul 2020N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20332

• 7 Aug 2018Conditional

  EXISTING EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION FOR A NEW EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 18342

• 24 Aug 2017Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17312

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 Castlefield.

Recorded monuments

• OF036-016 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on high ground with bog to the N. Only a few protruding stones mark the site of this castle. Impossible to determine its shape or size from the surface evidence. (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 81) 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

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Castlefield, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlefield · Páirc an Chaisleáin

Area

317,997 m² (31.8 ha, 78.58 acres)

Civil parish

Letterluna, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Letter, the unit of the census

Census 2022

161 people lived in 55 households in the Letter electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cadamstown, Deerpark, Drummin, Kilmacuddy, Lackaroe

Placenames

Castlefield 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.