Kilgolan Lower

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgolan Lower, from 18 m² to 196,569 m² (19.66 ha, 48.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Town Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Aug 2026N/a

  the change of use from retail use to retail with ancillary use as an off licence, and associated works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660441

• 24 Aug 2023Conditional

  THE CHANGE OF USE FROM A PRIMARY SCHOOL BUILDING TO A CHILDCARE FACILITY. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO UPDATE THE LAYOUT FOR USE AS AN EARLY YEARS/CRECHE/CHILDCARE FACILITY WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 519.5m2 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23368

• 28 Jul 2023N/a

  USE OF THE PREMISES AS SCHOOL AGE CHILDCARE FACILITY AND PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO USE THE PREMISES AS AN EARLY YEARS/CRECHE/CHILDCARE FACILITY WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 519.5M2 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23346

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RETAIL SHOP UNIT WITH GROUND FLOOR AND MEZZANINE FLOORS, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WASTEWATER AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATERMAINS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21793

• 21 Aug 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING WITH ETU, PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17307

• 14 Feb 2017Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING STONE WALL AND THE PROVISION OF NEW PATHS, PAVING, LANDSCAPING, SIGNAGE, LIGHTING, STREET FURNITURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1754

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 Kilgolan Lower.

Recorded monuments

• OF031-019 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on N facing slope. Roughly circular area (71m N-S; 60m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.5m). Field fence intersects site at S. The site has an overall diameter of 84m N-S by 76m E-W. No entrance feature was identified. 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 Kilgolan 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

About 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1784 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kilgolan Lower · Coill an Ghabhláin Íochtarach

Area

717,449 m² (71.74 ha, 177.29 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyboy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Kilcormac, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcormac electoral division: 1,486 people in 551 households; 73% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboy, Ballycollin Lower, Ballycollin Upper, Kilgolan Upper, Killeen and Lugnaboley, Park

Placenames

Kilgolan 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.