# Longstown, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Carrigtohill, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Longaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 519,990 m² (52 ha, 128.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,701 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Carrigtohill, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/carrigtohill.md - Barony: Barrymore - Electoral division: Carrigtohill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 8,181 people lived in 2,751 households in the Carrigtohill electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12204 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44207 - Centre: latitude 51.935774, longitude -8.262737 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longstown, from 167 m² to 344,111 m² (34.41 ha, 85.03 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2159474: 344,111 m² (34.41 ha, 85.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2159474.md - Parcel 5046606: 153,194 m² (15.32 ha, 37.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5046606.md - Parcel 2159473: 11,642 m² (1.16 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2159473.md - Parcel 3668565: 5,989 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3668565.md - Parcel 5229765: 3,412 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5229765.md - Parcel 3668604: 1,294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3668604.md - Parcel 3668588: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3668588.md - Parcel 5229790: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5229790.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Longstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 19 Nov 2021, Cork County Council 21/7121: Conditional. Permission. To construct a single storey dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/7121 - 6 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/11255: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of stables and construction works to include the incorporation of existing east facade to support slate roof to new dwelling and associated site works to include excavation and fill, grading of farm acceess road, new low stone wall at the south gable. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/11255 - 5 Nov 2004, Cork County Council 04/8221: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/8221 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Longstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO064-095: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO064-095----. In pasture, on E-facing slope. Shown as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight rise visible in field. No other surface trace. According to Power (1918, 202) 'The O.M. records two lioses - one ofthem square. Both have unfortunately disappeared, along with a third which the map has left unrecorded'. Rectangular enclosure (CO064-096---) c. 170m to E; fulacht fiadh (CO064-094---) c. 200m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO064-096: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO064-096----. In pasture, on E-facing slope. Shown as rectangular enclosure (c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight rise visible in field. According to Power (1918, 202) 'The O.M. records two lioses - one of them square. Both have unfortunately disappeared'. Possible ringfort (CO064-095---) c. 170m to W; fulacht fiadh (CO064-094---) c. 130m to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO064-097: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO064-097----. In pasture, on SE-facing slope. According to Power (1918, 202) 'The O.M.records two lioses....Both have unfortunately disappeared, along with a third, which the map has left unrecorded'. Levelled; slight undulations in field indicate position; N-S roadway curves to respect site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO064-098: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO064-098----. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular area (diam. c. 35m) planted with trees. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Enclosure (CO064-099---) c. 140m to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO064-099: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO064-099----. In tillage, on SE-facing slope. Marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly oval enclosure (c. 42m N-S; c. 35m E-W), planted with trees. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Circular enclosure (CO064-098---) c. 170m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO064-100: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO064-100----. In pasture, on natural terrace on E-facing slope. According to local information, burnt material was noted here. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Longstown, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Longstown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/longstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/longstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/longstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Longstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Fahydorgan: https://everytownland.com/cork/fahydorgan.md - Garranes: https://everytownland.com/cork/garranes-42703.md - Gortnamucky: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortnamucky.md - Tibbotstown: https://everytownland.com/cork/tibbotstown.md - Woodstock: https://everytownland.com/cork/woodstock.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/longstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/longstown