How do I search planning applications in Co. Offaly?

Two ways. The national planning applications map (nationalplanningapplications.ie) carries every council's register on one map: search the address, then look at the streets around it. The planning authority for the towns on this page is Offaly County Council; each also runs its own online planning search with the full file, drawings and decision. For a house you are buying, the 300 m around it matters more than the town count.

Which towns in Co. Offaly have the most planning activity?

By applications within 2 km of the town centre in the last three years: Tullamore (249), Birr (118), Edenderry (98). Counts include extensions, one-off houses and changes of use, not only housing schemes.

Does planning permission nearby change what a house is worth?

A granted permission for a large scheme behind the house can take light, a view or parking, and it means construction traffic for two years. It can also add a school or a shop. Read the description, the decision and the appeal status before you bid. The report lists every application within 300 m of the Eircode with that detail, and checks the house's own planning and building-control file.

Planning applications · Co. Offaly

Planning applications in Co. Offaly: 465 in three years

465 planning applications were lodged within 2 km of the centres of 3 towns in Co. Offaly in the last three years, 13 of them for ten homes or more (640 units). Below: the busiest towns, the largest schemes on file, and what to check around one house before you bid.

465

planning applications within 2 km of 3 town centres in the last three years

of them for 10 homes or more

640

residential units in those large applications

Where the planning office is busiest in Co. Offaly

Applications lodged within 2 km of each town centre since 2023, from the national planning register. A high count means an active town, not necessarily housing estates: extensions, one-off rural houses, shopfronts and retention applications all count.

Tullamore	249 applications, 6 large
Birr	118 applications, 3 large
Edenderry	98 applications, 4 large

Largest schemes on file in Co. Offaly

Applications for ten homes or more near the towns above, largest first, with the status recorded on the register when this page was built:

98 units, Tullamore, lodged 2025-07, application finalised (Offaly County Council): amendments and modifications to the permission granted for 98 residential units (including 36 no. apartments within three duplex blocks) under Planning Ref. 21/327 (no change is proposed to the number of dwelling units o
92 units, Edenderry, lodged 2025-11, application finalised (Offaly County Council): 92no. Dwellings consisting of: • 19no. Type A Semi Detached 2 Storey 4 Bed Dwelling • 1no. Type A1 Semi Detached 2 Storey 4 Bed Dwelling • 10no. Type B Semi Detached 2 Storey 3 Bed Dwelling • 9no. Type C Ground Floor 1 B
90 units, Tullamore, lodged 2025-07, application finalised (Offaly County Council): amendments & modifications to the permission granted for 98residential units (including 28 no. apartments) & a community creche under Ref. 21/328, made concurrently with an application for modifications to the permission
84 units, Tullamore, lodged 2024-10, application finalised (Offaly County Council): (A) the construction of 78no. dwellings, comprising of 2no. three-bedroom two storey semi-detached (Type A), 18no. four-bedroom two storey semi-detached (Type B), 12no. three-bedroom two storey end-terrace (Type C), 16no
65 units, Edenderry, lodged 2026-06, further information (Offaly County Council): a Residential development of 66no. Dwellings consisting of:• 1no. Type A1 Semi Detached 2 Storey 4 Bed Dwelling • 5no. Type A Semi Detached 2 Storey 4 Bed Dwelling • 12no. Type B Semi Detached 2 Storey 3 Bed Dwelling • 7
58 units, Birr, lodged 2024-04, application finalised (Offaly County Council): the construction of 58 total no. residential units comprising of: (A) 2no. three-bedroom two-storey semi-detached (Type H); 1no. 2-bedroom bungalow (Type L2); 10no. 1&2-bedroom terraced bungalows in three blocks (Type L3
39 units, Birr, lodged 2025-05, application finalised (Offaly County Council): (i) the demolition of an existing single storey shed to the south-west of the site; (ii) the construction of a residential development comprising of 39 no. units (including 8 no. one-bedroom maisonettes, 13 no. terraced
26 units, Tullamore, lodged 2025-12, application finalised (Offaly County Council): modification to the planning grant at Collins Lane (ref. 23/60059) as follows: Plots 40-41, 44-47 inclusive, 50-51, 82-85 inclusive, 92-93, 98-101, 117-122 inclusive (24 in total) previously granted three bed two story h

A permission that is granted but not yet built is invisible at a viewing. The register shows it. So does the zoning map for the fields around the house, which says what they are allowed to become.

Check one house in Co. Offaly

The area tells you the odds. The report tells you about the house.

Enter the Eircode. The free snapshot shows which of the twenty-nine checks flag up. The full report (€24.99, one house, no account) lists every planning application within 300 m of the house with status, decision and appeal, checks the property's own planning and building-control file, and shows the zoning of the land around it.

Or read the sample report first: a real house, 16 pages.

Other checks for Co. Offaly

Co. Offaly is in the pyrite belt. Houses built roughly 1997 to 2013 with hardcore from the affected quarries may have heave in floors; the Pyrite Resolution Board ran the remediation scheme. The report flags the build years and the scheme for the exact house.

Planning applications by town in Co. Offaly

GuidePlanning search before buying a house: the three files that matter

Questions people ask

How do I search planning applications in Co. Offaly?: Two ways. The national planning applications map (nationalplanningapplications.ie) carries every council's register on one map: search the address, then look at the streets around it. The planning authority for the towns on this page is Offaly County Council; each also runs its own online planning search with the full file, drawings and decision. For a house you are buying, the 300 m around it matters more than the town count.
Which towns in Co. Offaly have the most planning activity?: By applications within 2 km of the town centre in the last three years: Tullamore (249), Birr (118), Edenderry (98). Counts include extensions, one-off houses and changes of use, not only housing schemes.
Does planning permission nearby change what a house is worth?: A granted permission for a large scheme behind the house can take light, a view or parking, and it means construction traffic for two years. It can also add a school or a shop. Read the description, the decision and the appeal status before you bid. The report lists every application within 300 m of the Eircode with that detail, and checks the house's own planning and building-control file.

Sources

National planning applications map

Area figures, compiled from public records. They describe the town or county, not any one house. The paid report checks the exact Eircode.