# Longfield, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lettermacaward, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Pháirc Fhada. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 238,165 m² (23.82 ha, 58.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,365 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lettermacaward, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/lettermacaward.md - Barony: Boylagh - Electoral division: Lettermacaward, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Lettermacaward electoral division: 727 people in 301 households; 83% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14911 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51774 - Centre: latitude 54.847789, longitude -8.331318 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longfield, from 61 m² to 99,097 m² (9.91 ha, 24.49 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1414084: 99,097 m² (9.91 ha, 24.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414084.md - Parcel 1379831: 64,021 m² (6.4 ha, 15.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379831.md - Parcel 2445403: 8,062 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2445403.md - Parcel 1309796: 7,468 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309796.md - Parcel 1351149: 6,806 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351149.md - Parcel 5517735: 5,810 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5517735.md - Parcel 5313776: 5,395 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5313776.md - Parcel 5517734: 4,697 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5517734.md - Parcel 1379761: 4,591 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379761.md - Parcel 1421831: 4,101 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421831.md - Parcel 2445408: 2,408 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2445408.md - Parcel 1382500: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382500.md - Parcel 1366232: 2,101 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366232.md - Parcel 1405586: 1,836 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405586.md - Parcel 1412851: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412851.md - Parcel 1357751: 1,365 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357751.md - Parcel 5255161: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5255161.md - Parcel 1391267: 1,157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391267.md - Parcel 5565817: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5565817.md - Parcel 1380508: 812 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380508.md - Parcel 1369183: 760 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369183.md - Parcel 1350655: 576 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350655.md - Parcel 5522472: 411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522472.md - Parcel 1379835: 403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379835.md - Parcel 1379834: 387 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379834.md - Parcel 5255143: 376 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5255143.md - Parcel 5522357: 269 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522357.md - Parcel 5522475: 109 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522475.md - Parcel 5522525: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522525.md - Parcel 5522478: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522478.md - Parcel 1399378: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399378.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Longfield 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 19 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560801: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. PLACEMENT OF A TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME WITH CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ADJACENT TO DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560801/0 - 19 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251742: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN AGRICULTURAL SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251742/0 - 22 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950749: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DETACHED GARAGE AND STORE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950749/0 - 10 Oct 2018, Donegal County Council 1851570: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FORESTRY ROAD ENTRANCE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851570/0 - 12 May 2017, Donegal County Council 1750737: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND RE-LOCATION OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 16/51725 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750737/0 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 Longfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Longfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longfield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Longfield. - 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/donegal/longfield-51774.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/longfield-51774.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/longfield-51774.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Longfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cullion: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cullion-50860.md - Farragans: https://everytownland.com/donegal/farragans-51226.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glebe-51318.md - Meenagowan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenagowan.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/donegal/longfield-51774 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/longfield-51774