Longtown South
Townland in the civil parish of Killybegs, barony of Clane, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Baile Fada Theas
- Area
- 125.1 ha
- 309 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,082 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longtown South, from 9 m² to 294,372 m² (29.44 ha, 72.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Longtown South 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Feb 2026Conditional
Retention and Planning Permission. Retention Sought for: A New Roof to an Existing Grain Store. Permission Sought for: (A) A New Machine Shed to Rear of Existing Grain Store, (B) A New Slatted Cattle Shed, with Dungsted and New Setdown Concrete Yard, and extension to existing farm road, (C) Revised Configuration to existing recessed vehicular entrance and driveway / avenue (D) and all associated site works including boundary treatments
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660191
18 Feb 2026N/a
Retention of a New Roof to an Existing Grain Store and Permission for: (A) A New Machine Shed to Rear of Existing Grain Store (B) A New Slatted Cattle Shed, with Dungsted and New Setdown Concrete Yard, and extension to existing farm road. (C) Revised Configuration to existing recessed vehicular entrance and driveway / avenue (D) and all associated site works including boundary treatments
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660153
9 Feb 2026N/a
(A) erection of agricultural use shed in the existing farmyard for the storage of farm machinery. (B) erection of agricultural use, slatted cattle shed with underground effluent tank and attached silage bays in a new farmyard approx. 280M to the north east of the existing farmyard and house. (C) upgrade of existing farm access lane to a 4M wide bound surface roadway for a length of approx. 230M with associated access points to the existing house, farmyard and field gates. (D) upgrade of existing entrance from the Prosperous to Sallins Road to a double recessed vehicular entrance with sliding gates, piers and splayed wing walls. (E) all associated ancillary surface water drainage and siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660110
15 Apr 2025Conditional
for (A) Temporary retention for a period of 2 years sought for the existing mobile home on site. (B) refurbishment of existing derelict cottage complete with new slate roof and the restoration of existing stone walls and the insertion of new window fenestration to front (south east) elevation, (C) single storey extension to side (north east) elevation and link roof to rear (north west) elevation, (D) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (E) upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to a new vehicular recessed entrance gate and piers and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: The garage is now part of the application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560397
10 Apr 2025N/a
for (A) Temporary retention for a period of 2 years sought for the existing mobile home on site. (B) refurbishment of existing derelict cottage complete with new slate roof and the restoration of existing stone walls and the insertion of new window fenestration to front (south east) elevation, (C) single storey extension to side (north east) elevation and link roof to rear (north west) elevation, (D) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (E) upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to a new vehicular recessed entrance gate and piers and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560380
8 Feb 2022Conditional
retaining alterations to garage/store block granted permission under PI. Ref. 03/1537, including installation of 5 No. rooflights to side and rear, raising of ridge level for storage accommodation along with all associated ancillary site-works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 22131
24 Jan 2022N/a
retaining alterations to garage/store block granted permission under PI. Ref. 03/1357, including installation of 5 No. rooflights to side and rear, raising of ridge level for storage accommodation along with all associated ancillary site-works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2260
20 Mar 2020Conditional
to construct a single storey storage shed for the housing of domestic fuel and vintage vehicles (for hobby use only), and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20295
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Longtown South.
Recorded monuments
- KD014-088 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 46m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Seán Sourke Date of upload: 02 April 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longtown South.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2684 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Longtown South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Longtown South · An Baile Fada Theas
- Area
- 1,251,297 m² (125.13 ha, 309.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clane
- Electoral division
- Downings, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Downings electoral division: 3,091 people in 1,014 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Fleshtown, Killybegs Demesne, Landenstown, Longtown Demesne
- Placenames
- Longtown South 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.