Benfield

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Benfield, from 117 m² to 387,684 m² (38.77 ha, 95.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Benfield 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing school building, connections to existing services and all associated site works to complete the development

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560635

• 27 Nov 2025N/a

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing school building, connections to existing services and all associated site works to complete the development

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560601

• 30 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A LIGHT AIRCRAFT LANDING STRIP WITH ASSOCIATED STORAGE HANGER AND CLUBHOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21816

• 10 Dec 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A LIGHT AIRCRAFT LANDING STRIP WITH ASSOCIATED STORAGE HANGER AND CLUBHOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21768

• 20 May 2020Conditional

  TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20184

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  THE PROVISION OF A FIFTEEN SQUARE METRE PREFABRICATED BUILDING TO THE SOUTH EAST OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL FOR USE AS TEMPORARY ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18507

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 Benfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Benfield.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2161 (ZIP).

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

Name

Benfield · Gort na Pónaire

Area

396,524 m² (39.65 ha, 97.98 acres)

Civil parish

Clonyhurk, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Hammerlane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

590 people lived in 205 households in the Hammerlane electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Borderreen, Clonyhurk, Garryhinch, Killeen, Magheranaskeagh

Placenames

Benfield 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.