Cumber Lower

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cumber Lower, from 31 m² to 365,258 m² (36.53 ha, 90.26 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 Cumber Lower 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 Jan 2017Conditional

  NEW SLATTED CATTLE HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE, CATTLE CRUSH AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 175

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• OF036-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on N facing slope of high ground. Raised circular area (diam 45.2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.75m) with filled in external fosse. Possible destroyed entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE. 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

• OF036-054 Stone trough
  Description

  A stone trough consisting of an oval shaped limestone trough (L 0.9m x B 0.6m x T 0.05m; H 0.35m), the spout or opening at one end has a face carved into the end of the trough (Feehan 1979, 159-62). The trough probably dates from the post-AD 1700 period. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF036-059 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on N face of E-W ridge just below the summit. Circular area (34m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank ( Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) and external fosse (Wth 4m) which has a U shaped profile and appears to be of recent origin due to its perfect state of preservation. There is possible evidence for a triangular shaped garden attached to the N side of the enclosure. Overall the site would appear to be an enclosed house site with garden of recent origin. The interior of the site slopes from S to 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

• OF036-060 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Area has recently been ploughed for state forestry. Aerial photographs (Air Corps 758/9) shows outline of circular enclosure in upland area. 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 Cumber Lower.

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 Cumber Lower, 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 high, 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 Cumber Lower.

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

Name

Cumber Lower · An Comar Íochtarach

Area

2,149,926 m² (214.99 ha, 531.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kinnitty, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Kinnitty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

596 people lived in 207 households in the Kinnitty electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacmurragh, Ballyshane, Clonlee, Cumber Upper, Forelacka, Lismoney

Placenames

Cumber Lower 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.